A 23-year-old man suffered facial injuries when he was pistol-whipped during an attempted robbery in the Westlake area. The victim was walking near Fifth Street and Burlington Avenue Tuesday around 9:45pm when a man confronted him and "demanded property," Sgt. Melvin Gamble of the LAPD's Rampart Station told City News Service. more ›

A car chase stemming from an alleged kidnapping ended today in a crash that killed one woman and injured a man. Shortly after 8am Thursday, a witness dialed 9-1-1 to report a suspect had grabbed a woman from the sidewalk and forced her into a GMC Yukon in the 2400 block of West Sixth Street. more ›

In a report following the 2010 shooting of Westlake resident Manuel Jamines by LAPD Officer Frank Hernandez , the LA Police Commission stated that Jamines asked to die. Jamines was reportedly drunk and carrying a knife when Hernandez shot and killed him, after having been called by a concerned resident. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Commission ruled Tuesday the officer involved in the September 5 fatal shooting of a Guatemalan day laborer Manuel Jamines "acted lawfully," reports KTLA. The shooting occurred when police on bicycles, responding to reports of a man with a knife, confronted Jamines ordering him to put the weapon down. When he refused, fearing for their safety, officers opened fire, killing the 37-year-old. more ›

UPDATED 11:58 a.m.: Farfan has been found, reports KTLA. John H. Leichty Middle School student, 12-year-old Keifer Jacob Farfan, went missing on his way to school Wednesday morning, and has not been heard from since. The LAPD's Rampart Area Detectives are asking for the public's help to locate the middle schooler. more ›

Since their mid-August discovery, investigators have been working to piece together what happened to the two infants whose skeletons were stowed in a steamer trunk left in the basement of a Westlake apartment building for nearly 70 years. more ›

A scatter of possibly gang-related shootings in Westlake this weekend left one man dead and another injured according to the LAPD. At approximately 1:50 a.m. on Nov. 7 officers discovered a man who had suffered a gunshot wound stating, "he was standing on the sidewalk when a car drove by, he heard several gunshots and then felt pain in his leg." more ›

If any traffic from President Barack Obama's visit to USC's campus and Glendale wasn't enough, then here's more. A march from Pershing Square in downtown and ending at MacArthur Park in Westlake will begin at 2 p.m. It's just one of the many protests across the nation for the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality. more ›

A familiar scene last night in Westlake, but with a different outcome this time: A Los Angeles Police Department officer ordered a knife-wielding person to drop her weapon, and when they didn't comply, the officer fired at her. Unlike September 5th, however, when the LAPD shot and killed Manuel Jamines, a day laborer who was also carrying a knife, last night's suspect, a woman, was shot at with non-lethal bean bag rounds, according to KTLA. The confrontation "happened around 4:40 a.m. near Sixth and Coronado streets." more ›

Attention is currently is drawn to protests in Westlake over the officer involved shooting that left a man dead on Sunday, but the fatal Thursday morning shooting of a 19-year-old man just a mile away has failed to see much attention. Celeste Fremon at Witness LA describes Irvin Panameno, nicknamed Smiley, as a reformed gang member. more ›

Another night, another protest in Westlake over the police shooting death of Manuel Jamines. But this one on Thursday, unlike other day, was truly peaceful, reported the LA Times. more ›

The meeting was set up for Wednesday night to discuss the weekend's fatal shooting of a day-laborer who was allegedly threatening people with a knife. During the meeting, Beck "was heckled and booed by many in the crowd of about 300." Beck asked for calm and respect in order to facilitate a productive discussion, however shouts from the crowd calling the LAPD "killers" and "assassins" among other outbursts, forced Beck to "step away from the microphone." more ›

After two days of protests, the LAPD hopes to calm tensions by holding a meeting tonight to address Sunday's fatal police shooting that left a day laborer dead. Community members will be able to ask questions and hear speakers talk about incident, LAPD's Use of Force Policy and how it reviews use of force incidents. more ›

For a second consecutive night, protestors took to a street corner west of downtown where a man was shot and killed by police over the weekend. Four people were arrested Monday after rocks and bottles were thrown at LAPD officers clad in riot gear. Tonight, authorities declared an unlawful assembly after firing "at least two volleys of non-lethal projectiles" into the crowd at 6th and Union in Westlake, according to the LA Times. more ›

A peaceful demonstration west of downtown yesterday took a turn to the unruly side of things as the evening progressed. Dozens of people angered by an officer involved shooting that left 37-year-old Manuel Jamines dead on Sunday afternoon had gathered Monday at the scene to protest. Four people were arrested for inciting a riot when bottles and rocks were thrown at police, according to the LA Times. Some mattresses were also lit on fire. more ›

Outrage over a Sunday afternoon police shooting west of downtown that left a day laborer dead spilled out onto the streets Monday. The protest of about 50 people moved up and down 6th Street in Westlake, mainly at Union Avenue where the incident took place, and Valencia Street, outside LAPD's Rampart Division station. more ›

The investigation into the death of two infants whose skeletons found in the basement of a Westlake apartment building continues. Today the LAPD held a press conference to announce findings about the owner of the trunk in which the mummified remains were found. more ›

Items inside a trunk stashed in the basement of the Glen-Donald apartment building in the Westlake area are just some of the clues authorities are using to investigate the case of the two infant skeletons found Tuesday, reports LA Now. more ›

An apartment manager doing some cleaning in the basement of a Westlake building found something unusual wrapped in newspapers inside two doctor's bags stashed in a steamer trunk. Inside the papers--a 1933 and a 1935 issue of the Los Angeles Times--were "infant skeletons" thought to be those of fetuses, according to the Daily News. more ›

The iconic Westlake Theatre, a part of the MacArthur Park community since 1926, has been awarded a spot on the National Register of Historic Places, according to the April e-newsletter of the Office of Historic Resources. more ›

Los Angeles is a city of hundreds of neighborhoods and hundreds of languages, and the cultures that go along with them. From Venice to Garvanza to Shadow Hills to San Pedro (and everything between), we live within a plethora of diversity. But one thing that is missing from this polyglot metropolis are the stories coming out of all these places. more ›

On Saturday evening a man was shot while sitting in the barber's chair in what police are saying could be a gang-related incident. Domingo Reyes, 35, was at Alberto Barber Shop in Westlake near MacArthur Park when the incident happened around 6:58 p.m., according to the LAPD. more ›

The LAPD is on the look out for two twenty-something Asian suspects who may be responsible for three Westlake area burglaries. On February 24th, surveillance video caught two men forcing their way into an apartment on the 3100 block of West 3rd Street. The suspects unlocked deadbolts and drilled holes from the exterior of front doors before ransacking the apartment. Anyone with information can call detectives at (213) 382-9440 or 1-877-LAPD-24-7 during off hours. more ›

The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power is currently reporting two large power outages affecting nearly 11,000 customers. 8,000 in the Westlake area and 2,900 in the Boyle Heights have been without power since around 5 p.m. "Crews are on site working to restore power," said Gale Harris, a public information officer with the utility. The exact causes of the outages are unknown. UPDATE: Power has been restored to Boyle Heights and 2,000 customers are left without power in Westlake. more ›

Friday morning, residents on South Witmer Street in Westlake heard gunfire and not the sound of Cosme Gonzalez's usual cries declaring the foods he had to sell. The LA Times explains:

In what police are calling an attempted robbery, a man in his 20s approached the 46-year-old Gonzalez about 9:30 a.m. and demanded money. When Gonzalez refused, the man fatally shot him in the chest, police said.

Early Tuesday morning, California Highway Patrol officers made a routine traffic stop that ended with deadly results. Around 12:15 a.m., officers stopped a gold Mercedes near 7th Street at South Westmoreland when the driver exited the vehicle per instructions given. But as the man got out, he allegedly produced a hand gun, prompting officers to shoot him more than once "in self defense," ultimately killing him. more ›

Just like yesterday, when we announced that while the federal government can rob medical marijuana dispensaries, citizens can't, we find that LAPD officers are not allowed to rob drug dealers. In a separate case from the widely known Rampart Division Scandal, a group of rogue officers held up at least 30 drug dealers in a two year period ending in 2001 according to CBS2 News. After the robberies, which included taking the drugs, money and anything that look valuable, the officers would split the loot, sell the drugs to another dealer and proceed to split those profits (so wait, did they ever rob the dealer they dealt to?). more ›

Angelenos should be empathizing today with their Coloradian brothers and sisters today, who were shocked by the tragic shooting deaths of two staff members at a missionary center in Colorado Springs. There were two mysterious shootings last night in very different parts of the city: The first occurred around 7:40pm in Tujunga, where an unidentified man was gunned down by an assailant in a moving car. The man was found dead of two shotgun... more ›