Since the ’70s, this four-square-mile swath of downtown has been a symbol of the city’s urban blight. But for the people who live there, it’s a neighborhood with codes and customs all its own.
If Mabel Monohan’s former son-in-law, Tutor Scherer, hadn’t been a Las Vegas gambler, the 64-year-old widow would never have been murdered. If Mabel Monohan’s former son-in-law, Tutor ...
"If you own a dog in L.A. you need a gun," one victim says as he recounts the brutal gunpoint theft of his support dog Albert, who could fetch up to $12,000 on the black market Ron York, a ...