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Biologists tracking mountain lions over the past decade worry that the big cats are inbreeding in the Santa Monica Mountains because they're cut off from other lions in the mountains above Simi Valley and further north, City News Service reports.

Los Angeles' popular Venice Beach teemed with people enjoying a weekend outing on the boardwalk and sand when lifeguards and other witnesses say a rare summer thunderstorm hit without warning, producing lightning that injured or rattled more than a dozen people and killed a 21-year-old man who was body surfing.

A rare lightning storm struck packed Venice Beach, Calif., Sunday, killing a 20-year-old man and injuring up to 12 others, one critically, after the same storm had struck a person on Catalina Island.

Los Angeles police officers responding to a call of a naked man running in a Jefferson Park neighborhood drove over a man who was lying in the street about two blocks west, officials said today.

More severe weather was expected Monday following lighting strikes that killed one person and injured 12 others at Venice Beach over the weekend.

One man was killed and at least eight others were hurt when lightning from a rare band of summer thunderstorms struck Venice beach in Los Angeles on a busy Sunday afternoon.

What: Conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic conclude the Americas & Americans festival with a celebration of film composers and a special guest performance by Gustavo Santaolalla and a suite from Dudamel's own score to “Libertador.

A tow truck driver was shot and killed after being chased by a vehicle in the South Gate area of Los Angeles early Sunday morning.

VAN NUYS >> The coroner's office has today identified a vandalism suspect who was shot to death by Los Angeles police in Van Nuys.

"If you pass your goal, it plays some da-da! music to make you feel good about yourself," says Charlie Wynkoop, a 56-year-old project manager from West Los Angeles.

With the services of designer Miguel Rueda, Akon renovated the house for indoor-outdoor living, creating a focal point swimming pool and spa surrounded by three fire pits and an outdoor kitchen.

In his two presidential terms combined, President George W. Bush hosted a total of 318 fundraisers.

Prospective buyers tour through a model home at Stoney Point Estates on Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Chatsworth on July 19, 2014.

Former Los Angeles city councilman Richard Alarcón's grandfather plowed fields in North Hollywood, using horses to work the rich earth.

Both spans of the old Santa Fe railroad bridge collapsed into “V” shaped wreckage above Century Boulevard today, as the big demolition project was exactly on schedule, a Metro spokesman said.

A Metro Gold Line train and a car collided today in East Los Angeles, resulting in three injuries, The collision happened about 10 a.m. at Third Street and Arizona Avenue, said Rick Jager of Metro.

Originally posted at 10:08 a.m. July 25, 2014. Edited to add more photos, information .