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Updated after the jump: The LAPD told me to!
In February, we reported that L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, spooked off the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, had applied for a six-foot security wall to be erected around his "Getty House" mansion in Winds...
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Earl Rhodes was shot and killed by police in Green Meadows.
By Annabel Martin
A 48-year-old black man killed on January 24 by two LAPD officers was later identified as Earl Rhodes. The victim, who officers claimed was acting aggressively, was bea...
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Earlier: It's a done deal, with the Wall Street Journal reporting today that Specific Media made the purchase for between $30 and $40 million and that it plans to cut the 500 person MySpace workforce in half.
What becomes of the abandoned social net...
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Updated after the jump: The Sheriff's Department says this is ICE's problem, not theirs.
This should be an interesting lawsuit -- not only for the future of immigration reform, but for frustrated journalists who repeatedly get their California Publi...
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So smug behind the wheel of your fuel efficient dork-mobiles, switching four lanes just to get to the carpool zone where you'll pass us all by. No more.
California's "Yellow Clean Air Vehicle Stickers" expire for good on Friday, so you'll have to su...
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Crown Chrome Plating: jewel of the Valley.
If you lived anywhere near Van Nuys Boulevard and Roscoe in the Valley before spring 2009 -- time to get righteous.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, you might have been exposed to some i...
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New research suggests that exposure to the plastic compound BPA could not only be bad for the sex lives of men, it might cause them to "become demasculinized and behave more like females."
Not our words people, but rather those of the University of ...
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Andrew Cherry was murdered in his apartment in Vermont Square
By Ryan Deto
During the afternoon of January 24, Andrew Cherry, a middle-aged black man, was found dead by relatives in his one-bedroom apartment in Vermont Square.
The Los Angeles Ti...
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The curtains match the carpet and her armpits.
Ah, the merkin. It makes me nostalgic for the days of hair down there. When Lady Gaga sported a bluish-green merkin (with highlights!) last week at the Much Music Awards, she, once again, drew attenti...
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Little Temple, an East Hollywood/Silverlake hipster club with a reputation for an eclectic crowd became the site of a shocking homicide last month.
Now cops say they have their man, 31-year-old Geovanni Cifuentes, who they alleged today is the gunma...
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Willy Rosoto-Reyes
By Annabel Martin
Willy Rosoto-Reyes, a 46-year-old Latino man, was fatally shot on January 24 on the 1400 block of West 6th Street in Westlake. Though City News Service initially reported that Reyes was shot at 5 a.m. by a man...
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Libraries are so in right now.
This, thanks mostly to the fact that, last election, voters finally woke up and saw the wreckage: L.A. City Councilmembers had been hacking the public library system to bits, a non-solution to the hole of debt they'd d...
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Fans at EDC in Vegas.
In a statement issued late Tuesday, Insomniac Events, the L.A.-based organizer of the three-day Electric Daisy Carnival rave in Las Vegas, said it was a rousing success.
This after EDC moved to Vegas following controversy f...
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You're jogging briskly and in the zone and all of a sudden you want to write that book you've been meaning to pen and take that night class you've wanted to sign up for. You're invigorated. You're smart!
Yeah, who knew a jock pursuit like getting yo...
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Do WeHo gays scare the lesbians away?
Last week, NYC beat California to marriage equality. (Well, unless you count our fleeting sliver of justice in 2008.) So, for one honorary week, we'll refrain from calling it New York Shitty. Though that won't...
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No one, save for sickos, thinks underage sex trafficking is a good thing. But contrary to what you might've heard from Ashton Kutcher's latest media blitz, there are not 100,000 to 300,000 children in America becoming prostitutes every year.
How do...
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Put us out of our misery already.
Associated Press reports that Major League Baseball will likely begin its long threatened Dodger takeover attempt by filing a motion in bankruptcy court that would seek to terminate the franchise.
In other words, t...
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It was every man's fantasy: His girlfriend called and wanted to have kinky sex. She slipped the handcuffs on him, but before it was over, she had allegedly cut him with a knife, hit him with the barrel of a shotgun, punched him, and dripped hot candl...
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Main Street Elementary, located across the street from where Mejia-Murillo was killed
By Ryan Deto
After gunfire was reported around 9:30 p.m. on January 21 in South L.A., police found the dead body of 24-year-old Latino man Gregorio Mejia-Murill...
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Don't strain a knuckle there, champ.
Was it something about the visit of modern-minded Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, currently in Vatican City for to receive a special wool pallium, that inspired Pope Benedict XVI to warble out his first T...
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