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He was the institutional memory for the movies at The Associated Press and a passage for the world to a Hollywood both longed for and long gone.

A glitter-covered, hair-tattered mess toting ripped clothes and catchy hooks, Ke$ha stepped onto the scene with her hit "Tik Tok" in 2010, and it's not a total exaggeration to say nothing has been the same since.

Lonnie Franklin was arrested in 2010 and charged with being a serial killer of women in South Los Angeles.

Mischa Barton posed for a photo call in Rome on Saturday, March 15. The 28-year-old wore a two-tone shift dress paired with black stilettos and a red lip, to promote her latest film "Hope Lost," in which she will play " a young Romanian snared into prostitution ."

In this file photo commuters enter and exit a train at the MTA Red Line Hollywood/Western station in Los Angeles.

When Dr. A. Richard Grossman started working at Sherman Oaks Hospital in the late 1960s, according to the LA Times, he persuaded administrators to set aside two beds for burn patients.

As a boy growing up in Temple City in the late 1980s, Philip Chung noticed the Chinese signs appearing above the boulevard shops and wondered what was happening to his community.

The Band Perry is the lone modern-day country act to be included in the forthcoming Annenberg Space for Photography exhibition "Country: Portraits of an American Sound."

Bob Thomas began to cover Hollywood for the Associated Press in 1944, after fleeing from the Fresno bureau.

Five people have been hospitalized and one person charged with vehicular theft after a high-speed pursuit ended in a three-car collision in downtown Los Angeles early today.

A man was found fatally shot in his car early Friday morning on the westbound Foothill Freeway in Sylmar.

L.A. City Attorney Mike Feuer said today that he's going after the cable giant in a nearly $10 million lawsuit alleging that TWC has refused to pay fees owed the city since 2011 while at the same time raking in billions in revenue.

In a bright spot in L.A. County's discouraging job market, Hawthorne-based rocket firm Space X has open positions for engineers.

A daily series, Connect! Unite! Act! seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district.

Lena Dunham was joined by fellow "Girls" castmates and creators at a Television Academy event to tease the upcoming season three finale and reflect on the wild journey getting there.

A stretch of the northbound San Diego Freeway in West Los Angeles will be closed overnight tonight so crews can re-stripe freeway lanes and work on the median.