A reporter learns to slice lox—and digs into a Los Angeles landmark’s millions in debt.

Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.

A profile of legendary L.A. crack dealer Freeway Rick Ross, now out of jail and trying to sell everything from weaves to his own biopic, written by a journalist who has known him for decades.

A tony bedroom community in Los Angeles, a kidnapping gone horribly wrong, and the birth of a teenage fugitive.