Metro Special Reports, Projects & Investigations


Review the in-depth reporting from The Times' Metro staff.

ART WORLD
A scholar's journey leads through war, addiction and injury to arrest.
Stories by Jason Felch.
FIRES
The Times explores the growth and cost of wildfires.
Stories by Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart.
LABOR
A Times investigation finds questionable dealings plague the Los Angeles chapter of the Service Employees International Union.
Stories by Times Staff Writer Paul Pringle.
DRUG VIOLENCE
The war between drug cartels and Mexican troops that has left at least 4,100 people dead.
Stories by The Times foreign, national and metro staffs.
SEX OFFENDER LAW
A law intended to crack down on sex offenders has proved a bonanza for some private psychologists and psychiatrists. Meanwhile, some offenders have slipped through the cracks.
Stories by Charles Piller and Lee Romney.
TRAFFIC
A look at how your neighbors, in the next lane, juggle their lives and drives. And how we got here.
Stories by Christopher Goffard, Dan Weikel and Jeffrey L. Rabin.
MEDICINE
The war between drug cartels and Mexican troops that has left at least 4,100 people dead.
Stories by Times Staff Writers John M. Glionna and Charles Ornstein.
SCIENCE
DNA matches in criminal cases aren't as always a lock.
Stories by Maura Dolan and Jason Felch.
PRIVACY
Medical records improperly accessed at hospitals.
Stories by Charles Ornstein.
IMMIGRATION
A series on the lives of illegal immigrants in Southern California.
Stories by the staff of the Times.
POLITICS
How California elected officials and their donors get around campaign contribution limits.
Stories by the staff of the Times Sacramento bureau
GANGS
Continuing coverage of gang violence in Los Angeles
Stories by Hector Becerra and Sam Quinones
SOUTHLAND STORIES
Scott Gold chronicles Southern California, one block at a time.
BRUSH FIRES
Full coverage of the 2007 brush fires, including ongoing recovery efforts.
HEALTH
At least 33 infants were infected in the 1980s by HIV-tainted transfusions at Cedars-Sinai.
Stories by Charles Ornstein
DEVELOPMENT
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
MENTAL HEALTH
Inside the California's mental health system.
Stories by Scott Gold, Lee Romney and other Times staff writers.
PUBLIC SAFETY
An examination of vulnerable 911 emergency system
Stories by Rich Connell and Robert J. Lopez
HOUSING
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
CRIME
TImes reporter Jill Leovy spent 2007 writing about homicides in Los Angeles County.
Check out her blog, the interactive homicide map, and her stories.

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INTERNATIONAL FRANCHISE
A U.S. deportation policy aimed partly at breaking up street gangs has backfired.

THE VANISHING CLASS
A look at why so many students limit their prospects by dropping out of high school.

LIFE ON THE STREETS
Columnist Steve Lopez spends a week on skid row.

THE GIRL
A young boxer and her father fight for more than a title.

SOUTHEAST HOMICIDE
A Son's Errand, Gunshots and the Quest for a Killer