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With their personal quirky vision and willingness to put on film what most folks would call depraved, these filmmakers helped break down the barriers of what you are allowed to see.

Wielding thermometers, Los Angeles police officers Thursday gathered with representatives of Children's Hospital Los Angeles in the parking lot of the Valley Traffic Division, where they set up two cars - one with the windows closed and one with them cracked - to demonstrate just how quickly each interior heats to potentially fatal levels.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge wrote in June that California laws governing teacher tenure, dismissals and layoffs have left grossly ineffective teachers in classrooms concentrated in poor communities, unconstitutionally depriving those children of an equal education.

Integrated Project Management Company, Inc. just opened a regional office in Los Angeles, California --the fifth IPM office nationwide, joining regional offices in San Francisco, Boston, St. Louis, and their Chicago headquarters.

A California university says it is investigating religious discrimination allegations made by a prominent scientist and former employee who claims he was fired for his creationist beliefs.

A landmark basketball court, newly refurbished, showing signs of buckling. Soaked and stained carpets.

At 93 years old, the pipe that burst in Westwood on Tuesday was younger and in better condition than many of Los Angeles's brittle, corroding water arteries.

KCAL-TV showed the man moving only occasionally as he lay in the spotlight from a helicopter Wednesday night before he was taken into custody peacefully.

The child was found unresponsive around 3:30 p.m. in the Sylmar section of the city, police said.

Along with a performance, the psychedelic western-influenced cinematic rock band, Spindrift will screen their short film "Ghost of the West" Friday at the Maltese.

The husband and parents of an Italian woman killed when a car plowed through a crowd of people on the Venice boardwalk last year have filed a negligence lawsuit against the city and county of Los Angeles, as well as the driver of the car.

Now the roller-coaster life of Joe Isgro is taking another plunge, with new charges that he helped run a mob-linked gambling operation.

Guitarist Michael Clifford unfortunately couldn't make it because he's ill. 'One morning, we got up and he was gone,' joked the band.

"July 29,2014. Westwood CA, UCLA students pose for a photo after a major water main break sent a geyser of water blasting through Sunset Boulevard north of the UCLA campus Tuesday, sending mud and water cascading down the street and inundating a number of vehicles as it made its way onto the campus.

Before she was Princess Anna in "Frozen" or even Veronica Mars, Kristen Bell was a musical theater geek.

After announcing her split from Antonio Banderas early in June, Melanie Griffith, 56, was seen a week later covering up her "Antonio" tattoo with what appeared to be makeup as she walked various red carpets.

A broken water main near the UCLA campus Tuesday sent a geyser of water some 30 feet into the air, forced the rescue of people trapped in underground parking garages and covered some of the best-known parts of campus in water, including the school's famed basketball arena.

I've been getting quite a bit of mail on the story I posted Monday about a new book that covers the history of Pacific Ocean Park, the amusement park on a pier that was the place to hang in the late 1950s and '60s - Santa Monica's Crystal Pier.