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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.

Word of Nelson Mandela's death spread quickly across the United States, bringing with it a mix of reverence and grief for a man who was born in South Africa but in the end belonged to the world.

Four local brothers are all members of the Los Angeles Police Department. It's believed to be a department first.

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Los Angeles Authorities have arrested a man accused of stealing a piece of the wrecked sports car that "Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker was riding in when he died in a fiery crash Saturday.

There's this weirdly unfounded reputation that just about everyone in Los Angeles is vegan and therefore sunbaked Angelenos only feast on the likes of kale and quinoa.

Longtime LGBT ally Kathy Griffin hosts when lesbian Emmy winner Jane Lynch receives the Trevor Hero Award at the TrevorLIVE benefit in LA on Dec. 8 at the Hollywood Palladium.

They're dumping tons of snow at Beeman Park in Studio City this Sunday for the third year in a row.

Troubled former teenage star Amanda Bynes has left a California facility after court-ordered psychiatric treatment and is recovering at her parents' home in Los Angeles, People magazine said on Thursday.

Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez on Wednesday called for an investigation and the immediate removal of a shadow Affordable Care Act website launched by the California Assembly Republican Caucus in an apparent attempt to discredit so-called Obamacare.

The Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre is being sued for over $1 million by former followers in two lawsuits alleging fraud and misuse of funds.

The FBI and local law enforcement officials are seeking two bank robbers dubbed the “New Hat Bandits” in connection with five Los Angeles County bank heists in the past six weeks.

Poverty is ramping up in Southern California and has risen significantly over the last two decades, according to a report from the Southern California Association of Governments.

Authorities say 11 people were hurt, one seriously, in a multi-vehicle crash that blocked all southbound 405 Freeway lanes near Sherman Way in Van Nuys.