Author: Emilie St. John

BALDWIN PARK – A Los Angeles cannabis company owner is $1.9 million richer after a judge found the city of Baldwin Park and some of its officials committed fraud in its cannabis permit process. The $1.9 million is to be paid by the City AND individual politicians attached to the case – $1.6 million in damages from the current and former officials, and $290,000 from the city of Baldwin Park. David Ju received the favorable verdict earlier this month after a jury agreed the local politicians had committed fraud during the city’s cannabis licensing process. Ju’s civil case centered around his…

SOUTH LOS ANGELES – After twenty days have passed, a woman found in a burned vehicle inside a South Los Angeles tow yard remains to be identified by authorities. “This decedent will not be added to the unidentified person search on our website because she has a presumed name. Once she is identified and her family notified, then, she will be found on our website under case information,” said the public information officer for the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office. The inquiry was made after a member of the public requested that 2 Urban Girls look into her identity after her…

INGLEWOOD – The Inglewood Police Department is seeking the public’s help locating a suspect who stole property from SoFi Stadium during the Los Angeles Rams football game. On Sunday, September 28, 2025, at approximately 2:22 PM, a UTV (utility task vehicle: Kawasaki Mule UTV, maroon colored, 2-seater, with the vehicle key left in the ignition) was taken from the lake area of Sofi Stadium located at 1001 Stadium Drive in the City of Inglewood. Affixed to the bed of the UTV were two (2) Harris’s Hawks (brown), housed in green containers. These Hawks are used during the games by a…

SUN VALLEY – The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a fatal crash that happened Sunday evening in Sun Valley. Officers with the Foothill Division responded to reports of a traffic collision in the 8700 block of Glenoaks Blvd. Upon arrival, they located an unconscious pedestrian that was pronounced deceased at the scene. The victim’s identity is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin. There are no further details at this time. Anyone with information about this collision is asked to call the Los Angeles Police Department’s Valley Traffic Division at 818-644-8033. During non-business hours or on weekends, calls…

Ready to get your game on? McDonald’s has announced that after a decade hiatus the MONOPOLY Game is BACK for a limited time and with more chances to win! For a limited time, starting Oct. 6, the MONOPOLY®Game at McDonald’s will be live in the McDonald’s app, where fans can rediscover the thrill of the peel. Players can build their empire in two ways—either by collecting physical game pieces from product packaging or digital game pieces from qualifying mobile orders —both of which must be redeemed in the McDonald’s app for a chance to win prizes. Here’s what else to…

“Trump is Dragging the United States Down the Dark and Dangerous Path Toward Dictatorship” INGLEWOOD – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) blasted the Trump Administration’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey calling it baseless. Comey is the first senior government official to face federal charges in one of Trump’s long standing grievances about the 2016 investigation into whether his first presidential campaign colluded with Russia. The indictment of James Comey is not just another headline. This is a five-alarm fire signaling the collapse of American democracy as we know it. Donald Trump is dragging the United States down the dark and dangerous…

INGLEWOOD – The Inglewood City Council is expected to increase its outside law enforcement contract with the Hawthorne Police Department by an additional $3 million. “On September 30, the city council will extend its contract with the neighboring police department which brings the total “Approve Amendment No. 1 to Agreement No. 25-003 with the City of Hawthorne to adjust the hourly rate and to extend the agreement an additional year (with the option to extend another one-year term) for $2,991,600 (maximum compensation not to exceed $5,191,600), to continue to authorize the Chief of Police (or designee) to request supplemental law…

INGLEWOOD – The Inglewood City Council will push back TWO scheduled Public Hearings to change the density and zoning of the former school sites of Monroe Middle School, Morningside High School and Woodworth Elementary School from September 30 to October 7 at 2:00 p.m. Public Hearing #1 Set a public hearing for September 30, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., to consider General Plan Amendment No. 24-00002 (GPA24-00002), allowing a request to amend the Land Use Element Map of the Inglewood General Plan from Low Density to Medium Density for an approximately 68-acre site that includes Morningside High School and Monroe Middle…

LOS ANGELES – Danny Bakewell, the powerful newspaper publishing magnate behind the Los Angeles Sentinel, has somehow managed to finagle control of a crucial City permit to hold the annual Kingdom Day parade instead of Dr. Adrian Dove and the Congress of Racial Equality of California (CORE). The seven-member LAPD Permit Review Panel voted 4-1 on September 22 to uphold the denial of Dr. Dove’s parade permit. Dove has been associated with the parade for over two decades. The September 22 special meeting was held because Dr. Dove appealed the denial. The panel members are: Charley Mims, Chairperson, Ryan Duckett,…

The Los Angeles Times is pushing back on misinformation circulating on the internet about a raid at a local swap meet back in June. In the article What social media got wrong about the ICE raids of the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet the writers took a deep dive behind the federal enforcement action that has caused many of the regular vendors to stay away. The swap meet isn’t just a place where vendors sell their wares, but also a place where regulars congregate to listen to live music, socialize and have a good time. But that has drastically changed…