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Guess whatr If you live anywhere near the 1,000-acre Inglewood oil field -- in Culver Crest, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Vista, Ladera Heights, Windsor Hills, Village Green or anywhere around there -- your... More >>
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Has the bullying at Normandie Avenue Elementary School in South L.A. gotten so bad that kids are participating in mass suicide-mocking rituals in classr That's what one kid on the Normandie playgroun... More >>
Multiple units from the LAPD's Pacific Division responded to a call just after midnight that could have been a scene from The Chainsaw Massacre. Though the incident was initially reported as a "possi... More >>
This week, the Internet got wind of a man who allegedly bench-pressed a goose for 10 minutes at an L.A. park. Even more adorably, according to the actor who photographed the event, the goose was total... More >>
Bikes versus cars is a classic transportation battle in traffic-clogged Los Angeles. But bikes versus runnersr Now there's a showdown we could get behind. Wolfpack Hustle, the uber-enthused cycling g... More >>
Urban marijuana farming is an art in resourcefulness, no doubt. But -- as we learn today from one Thai Town grower arrested around midnight for possession, cultivation and intent to distribute -- one... More >>
A 22-year-old honors student at the federally funded L.A. Job Corps was jailed for allegedly stabbing his counselor to death at the program's iconic Hollywood dorms yesterday afternoon. LAPD official... More >>
Turns out David Milch and Michael Mann's hardcore new horse-racing show for HBO, the extremely well-received Luck, was a little too realistic for comfort. PETA started the flamewar last month, enrage... More >>
Leave it to veteran Westside paparazzo Tony Vera (you know, the guy who Mike Tyson punched in the head at LAX, then lived to tell the tale) to pick Lindsay Lohan's stalker out of the Venice Boardwalk ... More >>
Update: "Who Is the Goose Whisperer of Hollenbeck Parkr" Reddit and Tumblr exploded yesterday with a photo of a barefooted man lying on the hillside of a somewhat crummy-looking park. The man -- by ... More >>
Well, it looks like L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will get what he wanted all along: a ticket out of this place. Everyone seems to love this guy but the people who elected him (and who've been deal... More >>
More Lohan news for this fine hump day: "Lindsay Lohan's Venice Stalker Says He Was Only Trying to Tell Her to 'Drop the Marilyn Monroe Image'." Though her sex life is getting stranger and her face i... More >>
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power already has a pretty awful reputation among its own constituents. Hand-in-hand with City Hall politicians, DWP officials have more than once tried to dup... More >>
The LAPD's insane retirement package apparently wasn't bounty enough for veteran officer Jeffry Quinton. Not only did the 48-year-old cop take up a job as night security for the Surf and Sand Resort ... More >>
A young man who may have been visiting Los Angeles from Dubai died while kite surfing as the Daylight Saving's sunlight faded on Monday night. Dante Torres, 28, became entangled in a bed of kelp as h... More >>
Unlike Israel's stodgy old prime minister, President Shimon Peres is one with Gen Y. On his wild trip to California, Peres has far surpassed the call of duty to schmooze with rich Jews. (Though he's ... More >>
The tragic death of 4-year-old Miriah Cobb in Westchester yesterday is being investigated by the LAPD's Abused Child Unit. A member of Cobb's family called 911 around 11:30 a.m. -- and when paramedic... More >>
Smack dab in the middle of an election season, the L.A. City Ethics Commission decided yesterday afternoon to raise the cap on campaign contributions that municipal candidates can collect from their s... More >>
Update on Feb. 25, 2013: Cady says all charges have been dropped. He's suing the L.A. County Sheriff's Department for what he says was a frame-up. Of all the creepy babysitting stories out there, thi... More >>
Advertisers running for the hills can't spook Rush Limbaugh, America's most popular (and most conservative) talk-show host. Nor can half a nation of angry feminists. But ace celebrity lawyer Gloria A... More >>
Things got pretty rowdy at the foreclosed North Hollywood home of undocumented immigrant Blanca Cardenas (and her U.S. citizen family, including two small children) on Monday night. Occupy L.A. prot... More >>
In the great race between director James Cameron and British billionaire Richard Branson to the deepest point on the ocean floor, Cameron will get there first. This, according to Bruce Jones, CEO of ... More >>
Updated below: The department says staffers like Moton are issued vans "to transport children." We recently learned what L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services employees aren't doing ... More >>
Friends, classmates and teammates of 17-year-old Burbank High football star Matthew Smyser, who died at his Shadow Hills home on Tuesday, describe him as anything but suicidal. His football coach, He... More >>
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