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A massive water main break inundated Sunset Boulevard near UCLA Tuesday afternoon, stranding cars, a bus and drivers in several feet of swiftly rising water and mud.

In one of its toughest crackdowns on the illegal sale of cigarettes to minors, City Attorney Mike Feuer announced a 30-day suspension of tobacco licenses to 14 retailers cited twice in the last five years for selling to young people.

The Young Hollywood Awards were handed out Sunday night in Los Angeles, but the ceremony was broadcast Monday night on the WB.

"We constantly review all of our businesses, and if a transaction makes sense strategically and financially, we will consider acting on it," Arthur Sando, a spokesman for Flynt Management Group LLC, said in an e-mail.

Gaffey is one of those wider-than-wide Los Angeles boulevards that handles six lanes of traffic and is now used primarily to exit and enter a main Los Angeles freeway.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's efforts to trim civilian employee pension costs suffered a major blow Monday when a labor panel voted to toss out new retirement rules touted by budget officials as a way to save the city $4 billion over the next three decades.

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.