http://news.yahoo.com/Local News LA Weekly via Yahoo! News.5en-USCopyright (c) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved12795633Los AngelesLos AngelesCACaliforniaA t the top of the Santa Monica Mountains range in Beverly Hills, standing in the middle of the "urban forest" campus of the environmental group TreePeople, California Assemblywoman Betsy Butler, a leggy blonde in a powder-blue business suit and spiked heels, looks out of place. Butler is ...http://www.laweekly.com/2012-05-24/news/Betsy-Butler-Torie-Osborn-wealthy-Assembly-District-50/2012-05-23T18:58:16-04:00LA Weekly16568581LA Weeklyhttp://www.laweekly.com/http://news.yahoo.com/local/LA-Weekly-16568581-12795633.htmlDebbie Search, a quality technician in Torrance, first suspected something when her financial adviser seemed to fall off the grid. She had a mysterious issue with her taxes and kept receiving letters from the IRS. Her advisers at AP Financial Group were supposed to take care of it. "I kept...http://www.laweekly.com/2012-05-24/news/sasha-merman-daniel-becerril-murder-ponzi/2012-05-23T18:58:07-04:00LA Weekly16568581LA Weeklyhttp://www.laweekly.com/http://news.yahoo.com/local/LA-Weekly-16568581-12795633.htmlThis millennium has not been kind to cigarette smokers. Each year more locales prevent them from lighting up: restaurants, bars, beaches, parks. Since 1999, 47 states have raised taxes on tobacco. Strange as it may seem, left-of-left California is not among them. California's cigarette tax...http://www.laweekly.com/2012-05-24/news/proposition-29-cigarette-tax-unfair-to-poor/2012-05-23T18:57:57-04:00LA Weekly16568581LA Weeklyhttp://www.laweekly.com/http://news.yahoo.com/local/LA-Weekly-16568581-12795633.htmlLast week was our annual People issue! And so, last week, we heard from a bunch of fanboys and -girls who were thrilled with the personalities we'd profiled and with Kevin Scanlon's glorious photography. Fans of Adam Lambert tied up the phone lines, begging us to send them copies. Fans o...http://www.laweekly.com/2012-05-24/news/comment-people-like-us/2012-05-23T18:57:47-04:00LA Weekly16568581LA Weeklyhttp://www.laweekly.com/http://news.yahoo.com/local/LA-Weekly-16568581-12795633.html