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What is it about The Big Lebowski that triggers such devotion in its horde of acolytes? The Coen brothers' 1998 comedy has become a raging self-propelled phenomenon, and the annual Lebowski Fest celebrates all of it, from rug pee-ers to nihilists to Little Lebowski Urban Achievers.

Daniel Christopher Yealu, 29, was charged with attempted murder in the April 7 shooting at the LAPD's West Traffic Division A man charged with attempted murder after a shooting earlier this month in the lobby of a Los Angeles Police Department station has died, according to police.

If you're an urban warrior seeking a luxury pampering experience, The Ritz-Carlton Spa, Los Angeles is the perfect escape from the daily grind.

"When it came time for me to think about how I could give back to my community, it ended up coming through school," said Deanna Jordan, a UCLA student who has teamed up with the university's Community Programs department to launch her Compton Task Force Project.

Los Angeles has grown to be an incredibly vegetarian-friendly city - one of the best in the country, in fact - with heaps of options for those seeking a meat-free lifestyle.

First they invited Sriracha maker Huy Fong Foods to drop anchor in their town, which it did. Then they took the factory to court over the smell of its chili processing. After warning that the hot-sauce maker could be declared a public nuisance over the alleged stink, the City Council backed off in February. Then, weeks later, it did initially vote to declare it a public nuisance.

A fire consumed a barber shop on the 16100 block of San Fernando Mission Boulevard on Thursday, Apr. 24, 2014.

The shooting occurred on the 11900 block of South Wilmington Avenue in unincorporated Los Angeles around 11 p.m., officials said.

Metro introduced ExpressLanes, or pay lanes, on the 110 Freeway in November 2012 and on the 10 Freeway in February 2013 as a one-year demonstration project.

In this Monday, April 21, 2014 file photo, plaintiff Michael Egan III, center, 31, his mother Bonnie Mound, left, and attorney Jeff Herman take questions from the media during a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif.

In an impressive if demeaning display of Israel's power to shape America's political destiny, the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte today was forced to adopt a once-discarded platform plank that names Jerusalem as Israel's capital over the objections of thousands of delegates.

COMPTON >> A $20,000 reward was announced Wednesday in the death of a 34-year-old Cerritos man studying to be a firefighter who was gunned down as he drove through Compton in a red car, in what officials say may be a case of mistaken identity.

I was crazy about cartoons when I was a child. I could never get enough of them in those pre-cable days.

Police and SWAT teams were on scene as a suspected armed man barricaded himself inside a Chatsworth home after a domestic dispute.

Ross McNutt, the man who helped build the surveillance aircraft to spy over Compton, has screens of the video footage captured in front of him Compton residents had no idea that the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept.

A rainbow painted fence encloses a temporary parking lot at 55 Laguna Street, site of the senior housing component of Openhouse's project.

Clint Eastwood 's latest movie, "American Sniper," kicked off with a bang in Los Angeles County this week.