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Police were searching today for the hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a juvenile cyclist in the Florence area.

California clichs get on my nerves - cutting edge; dream factory; innovative business culture - so when the time came to visit family and friends in Los Angeles and San Francisco last month I was prepared to be annoyed.

From left: Eliana Chasen, Dorian Pollard and Noa Siegel - the children of Allison Lee of American Jewish World Service, the Rev.

In the latest sign that business interests are coalescing around his candidacy, Los Angeles County supervisorial candidate Bobby Shriver was endorsed Friday by former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan .

Shortly into his phone call from Los Angeles, the Pixies' front man Frank Black, nA© Charles Thompson, wanted to make something very clear to me: Despite some reports to the contrary, he does not want to make a porno.

By now you've probably heard an earful about the approaching Jesus freak vs. pothead showdown on Sunday.

Photo Credit: California Department of Corrections A man on probation as a "non-violent offender" under California's prison realignment program has been charged with kidnapping, raping, and torturing a 16-year-old girl in South Los Angeles, and detectives suspect he may be connected to three other recent murders.

Two leaders of the Armenian Power gang were found guilty today by a federal jury in Los Angeles for their participation in a racketeering conspiracy that included extortion, bank fraud targeting elderly bank customers and a sophisticated credit and debit card skimming scheme that stole account numbers and personal identification numbers from ... (more)

A restaurant owner who allegedly paid to have a 9-year-old girl smuggled into the country from El Salvador, then forced the child to work at her restaurant and in her home, pleaded not guilty today to one felony count each of human trafficking and slavery, as did her live-in boyfriend.

WeHo News publisher Ryan Gierach documented the hundreds of bed bug bites on PATH resident Dave McFaddin, pictured, who ended up needing 10 hours of surgery.

The big box of candy known as Coachella is stuffed again with an assortment of familiar flavors, although there are fewer exotic confections overall this year than in previous editions.

The L.A. Register, published by Freedom Communications, launched on Wednesday, and is being marketed as a more conservative, pro-business community-based newspaper.

In this May 25, 2013 file photo, actress Kim Novak poses for photographers during the Homage to Kim Novak at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France.

An FBI -LAPD fugitive task force arrested a man wanted on kidnapping charges in Minnesota who authorities believe is the same man who led police on a chase in downtown Los Angeles earlier Thursday, officials said.

"A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder" is currently enjoying a Broadway run at the Walter Kerr Theatre, and Ghostlight Records has just released the soundtrack album.

Bryan Singer, director of The Usual Suspects and the upcoming film X-Men: Days of Future Past, was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy after allegedly plying him with drugs and alcohol on several occasions in 1998 and 1999.

This Feb. 20, 2014 file photo shows former NFL safety Darren Sharper appearing in Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles.

Authorities today chased a kidnapping suspect in an SUV from the Boyle Heights area to downtown Los Angeles, where the man got out and ran into a building.

A screen grab from CBS Los Angeles shows a fire truck after it smashed through the front of the Lu's Dumpling House.