Greg Katz

The victim called police from a nearby hotel.

One person is dead and one has been airlifted to a hospital after a car ran off a road and plunged into Kagel Canyon.

That's right: rich Americans busted in Mexico without papers. The irony!

This week's edition features bits of overheard conversation from plenty of industry types, plus some dietary tradeoffs and a classic from LACMA on free museum day.

A Southern California man shot himself in the leg today in an accidental shooting, police believe.

The craft store chain Michaels is warning customers that their credit card data might have been swiped, and we're guessing it wasn't by thieves who are handy with pipe cleaners and popsicle sticks.

The Grilled Cheese Invitational, that annual orgy of butter and cheese and bread that no venue seems big enough to hold, is calling it quits.

A man has been arrested and charged with shooting his brother-in-law in front of the victim's children in a tony Encino enclave.

When Lorraine Coops was born, in 1904, life expectancy was 49 years.

No surprise that people with college degrees make more than those without, but in L.A., they make a mind boggling 64 percent more.

Metro is closing all southbound lanes through the Sepulveda Pass for construction.

Santa Monica police are sounding a warning after two brazen, botched kidnapping attempts on major streets in the affluent seaside town.