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This June 27, 2013 file photo shows actress Fran Drescher at the Helmut Newton: White Women - Sleepless Nights - Big Nudes exhibit opening at the Annenberg Space Photography in Los Angeles.

After opening for Selena Gomez earlier this year, Emblem3 is hitting the road for their first national headlining tour.

"Hangover" producer Scott Budnick has decided to pursue his interest in juvenile justice reform and more socially conscious television and movies.

Sunday might be the coldest night of this month-and where it's not freezing cold, damaging winds may strike.

A tie-happy Los Angeles Film Critics Association gave its best picture of 2013 award to “Gravity” and “Her” at a meeting of 45 members in Cheviot Hills on Sunday.

However, even the City of Angels has the odd rainy day such as Saturday when the heavens opened with unseasonably cold temperatures.

It seemed like Stacy Keibler managed to drag out her relationship with George Clooney longer than most of his exes have, didn't she? I mean most of his women come with an 18-month expiration date and by the time their relationship is creeping towards the 2-year mark they find themselves out of George's Italian villa while he quickly moves on to the ... (more)

The colder air arrives a few hours later, and snow levels could drop to as low as 3,000 feet.

LOS ANGELES _ Pop and classical singer Josh Groban has listed his gated house in Malibu at $5.475 million.

Hollywood mourned this week after "Fast and the Furious" star Paul Walker was killed in a fiery car accident in Santa Clarita, Calif., on Nov. 30. The 40-year-old actor was a passenger in his friend Roger Rodas' Porsche Carrera GT when it crashed and exploded.

Nearly 100 firefighters were needed to extinguish a blaze at a former private school in Van Nuys Saturday morning, officials said.

Two Los Angeles police detectives went door-to-door Friday in a search for clues in the shooting death of TV writer-director James Marcus Howe at his Glassell Park neighborhood home.

It took some tugging for pilot Bob DeLong of San Clemente to pull one hairy passenger aboard a flight from Van Nuys to Bellingham, Wash.

The Nutcracker is arguably the most American of all classical ballets. True, its roots are European -- based on a story by German author E.T.A. Hoffman that was adapted by French author Alexander Dumas pere and then transposed to ballet by another Frenchman, choreographer Marius Petipa, at helm of the Russian Tsar's ballet company.

Jim Self, an Oil City High School graduate known as a one of the world's premier tubists, compiled that scene, called it "'Tis the Season Tuba Jolly" and then created it as a jazzy Christmas CD.

LOS ANGELES >> The nation's job market gained more steam last month as employers added 203,000 jobs, pushing the U.S. unemployment rate to a five-year low of 7 percent.

Motorists drive on the 5 Freeway as construction continues for the freeway expansion near the Carmenita bridge in Santa Fe Springs on Monday, November 25, 2013.

What happens when you combine a nameless boy, a ship called Neverland, a duplicitous Pirate and some rope? Theatrical magic.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointments of Deborah S. Brazil, Carl H. Moor, Connie R. Quinones, Armen Tamzarian, Sergio C. Tapia, Lee W. Tsao, Frank M. Tavelman and Joel Wallenstein to judgeships in the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Michael Doyle, street art director for Julien's Auctions, stands next to "Flower Girl," a delicate stencil on a massive brick wall by popular street artist Banksy, is displayed in a warehouse in the greater Los Angeles area Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013.