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Police searching for two suspected gang members who gunned down an 8-year-old girl in an apartment building courtyard were questioning possible witnesses and fielding calls from tipsters Thursday, police said.

Concerned that South Los Angeles residents do not have adequate access to healthy food choices, a Los Angeles City Council committee today unanimously called for a ban on opening fast-food restaurants in the ...

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Police Department officers arrested 21-year-old Jose Sarmiento, who had been involved in a rash of sexual assaults, on Monday, July 21, 2008.

On Wednesday afternoon, outside a liquor store in El Sereno, Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and Los Angeles Police Department officials announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the capture ...

Longtime readers know how I feel about John Edwards aka His Royal Phoniness .A Even at that, though, I haven't blogged anything about theA latestA affair rumorsA surrounding himA for a few reasons, the top ...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other officials announced Monday a new $100 million fund designed to help build and replace affordable housing in what leaders said is an effort to fill a housing gap ...

TWO YEARS AGO, newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vowed to put 1,000 more cops on the city's dangerous streets and proposed to raise trash collection fees to provide the money.

A Metrolink train struck and killed a man early Wednesday in Van Nuys, and police were investigating whether it was a case of suicide.

SPRUCE UP: Hollywood's deteriorating Walk of Fame is getting a makeover ahead of its 50th anniversary.

Shoppers here soon won't hear the question, "Paper or plastic?" at the checkout line.

Hundreds of Teamsters, environmentalists and elected officials marched from downtown Oakland to the Port of Oakland, demanding cleaner air and better paying jobs.

Two photographers who tried to snap shots of pop star Britney Spears were arrested Monday on suspicion of loitering.

The widow of producer Aaron Spelling paid a whopping $47 million for a two-story condo atop a Century City residential tower that's still under construction, her lawyer said.

Homicides have dropped, after rising nearly 40 percent earlier this year. The Los Angeles Police Department said there were 204 killings in 2008 as of Monday evening, four fewer than were reported over the same ...

A century ago, Col. Griffith J. Griffith gave enough land to Los Angeles to create the nation's largest wild urban park.

Two models of Tesla's first electric car, its two-seat Roadster, will be on display at the company's Menlo Park dealership when it opens today.

Amid concerns that voters may hesitate to approve a fifth multibillion-dollar school construction bond in a decade, Los Angeles Unified officials and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have crafted a proposal to woo ...

The 23-year-old star of ABC Family's frat house series "Greek" may be living his character in real life.

Four people were injured today, one critically, in a collision involving a private school bus and a car in Reseda, authorities said.

LOS ANGELES : The only synagogue on the Venice Beach boardwalk has weathered 80 years' worth of oscillating economies, winos, shamans and aggressive panhandlers, disintegration of its own community and surf ...