An anonymous letter accuses Assembly candidate Tom Daly of sexual misconduct with women in his office. His attorney calls the charges politically motivated. Orange County Clerk-Recorder Tom Daly will be investigated for alleged sexual misconduct as part of an aggressive new county procedure

An anonymous group in the neighborhood has floated the idea of leaving the city of L.A. But a straw poll taken at a community meeting finds strong opposition to secession.About a dozen Mar Vista residents gathered for a community council subcommittee meeting last week and admonished

The University of California is hoping to prevent suicides through a confidential online effort to get troubled students to seek help in person.The anonymous online conversation began after the student revealed that he planned to kill himself.

The artists intended to be anonymous, but their papier-mache creations generated so much buzz that soon friends and strangers were showering them with praise.With the chilling pulse of the"Drive"movie soundtrack flooding their van, Calder Greenwood and his cohort sped into the shadows

The Central Basin district, facing a raft of investigations, targets authors of a critical email. L.A. County's D.A. fears action could deter whistle-blowers.It all started with anonymous emails. The Central Basin Municipal Water District, the emails alleged, was guilty of corruption and double

A panel investigating allegations of violence is considering allowing secret testimony by guards to counteract a code of silence among jail deputies. But Sheriff Lee Baca has reservations.The special commission investigating allegations of abuse inside the Los Angeles County jails is discussing the possibility of allowing jail deputies to testify anonymously.

on the hapless masses. Bob Cratchit and his beleaguered family live in a chilly tent in an anonymous Oc...

Connecticut man who federal authorities say is linked to the hacking group anonymous has been charged wWith trying to shut down the website operated by KISS frontman Gene Simmons.

A woman was in stable condition Friday after being shot in the head by a man fighting with her husband at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Baldwin Park, police said.

An anonymous band of artists paints a huge pair of scissors and a long dotted line on obsolete Matilija Dam near Ojai. The message? Tear the thing down already.If life imitated art, it would be a simple matter to follow the dotted line and snip a 200-foot dam near Ojai off the face of the earth.

Downtown San Francisco train stations and a swath of busy Market Street close as followers of the 'hacktivist' group Anonymous protest alleged police brutality. No arrests or injuries have been reported.Law enforcement and transit officials shut down four downtown San Francisco train stations

The effort by the group Anonymous in response to the deaths of two men was apparently thwarted in Fullerton. But officials at Bay Area Rapid Transit had to shut down a marketing site.A group of activist hackers launched attacks Sunday against the websites of the Fullerton Police Department

Once a year, the department's captains are picked apart and ranked by anonymous underlings in a union-sponsored newsletter delivered for all to see. The scorecards often are viewed with dread — and rarely ignored.James Hellmold got the call from a fellow captain in the middle of the workday.

Mike Molina, former deputy executive director, quit after his boss, Gina Maria Lindsey, received an anonymous complaint. Molina said he did not send or receive sexually explicit messages.A high-level executive who recently resigned from his post at Los Angeles World Airports said Thursday

former top administrator of Manhattan Beach is considering suing the city for releasing an anonymous lett...

It's easy to laugh at a grandiose addict taking his rant on the road, but troubled Charlie Sheen may have a mental illness and, if so, needs help. We've learned plenty about addiction from Charlie Sheen, on our narrated tour through winning-ville: Alcoholics Anonymous is a cult, social crack

A package left at L.A. County Sheriff's Department headquarters contains 100 hours of footage of men who appear to be assaulting severely disabled women. Investigators are looking for leads on who is involved and where the attacks took place.The package mysteriously left at Los Angeles County Sheriff's headquarters shocked even some of the department's most grizzled detectives: A hundred hours of ...

Times critic S. Irene Virbila was waiting for a table at Red Medicine when the manager snapped her photo and told her to leave. It sparked a debate over whether modern critics can — or should — remain anonymous.Los Angeles Times restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila ducked into Red Medicine, a new Beverly Hills restaurant, for some modern Vietnamese food the other night, but got nothing t...

A woman from Humboldt County writes anonymous, fictionalized blog accounts of skirting the law and, with luck, staying alive.COPY DESK: Please attach to the story on export the following slug: la-me-pot-blogger-audio

Juan-Carlos Cruz, of Food Network's 'Calorie Commando,' asked homeless men to kill someone, police say. Not so long ago, Juan-Carlos Cruz was an anonymous young chef just getting started in a culinary arts