Japanese crime figures received liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center.
Stories by Times Staff Writers John M. Glionna and Charles Ornstein.

DNA matches in criminal cases aren't as always a lock.
Stories by Maura Dolan and Jason Felch.

Medical records improperly accessed at hospitals.
Stories by Charles Ornstein.

A series on the lives of illegal immigrants in Southern California.
Stories by the staff of the Times.

How California elected officials and their donors get around campaign contribution limits.
Stories by the staff of the Times Sacramento bureau

Continuing coverage of gang violence in Los Angeles
Stories by Hector Becerra and Sam Quinones

Scott Gold chronicles Southern California, one block at a time.

Full coverage of the 2007 brush fires, including ongoing recovery efforts.

At least 33 infants were infected in the 1980s by HIV-tainted transfusions at Cedars-Sinai.
Stories by Charles Ornstein

How the development boom in downtown, the Westside, Valley and other parts of L.A. is dramatically changing the city.
Stories by Sharon Bernstein, Cara Mia DiMassa, and others Times staff writers

Inside the California's mental health system.
Stories by Scott Gold, Lee Romney and other Times staff writers.

An examination of vulnerable 911 emergency system
Stories by Rich Connell and Robert J. Lopez

At look at the region's public housing operations, from housing projects
in South L.A. to new subdivisions on the Antelope Valley
Stories by Jessica Garrison and Ted Rohrlich

TImes reporter Jill Leovy spent 2007 writing about homicides in Los Angeles County.
Check out her blog, the interactive homicide map, and her stories.