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Muslims in Los Angeles plan to demonstrate support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid the intense conflict between Israel and Hamas militants.

Residents of a city famous for its attachment to cars and the daily gridlock that results have been warned that the "Century Crunch" could "could screw everything up" for drivers.

A Los Angeles police officer-involved shooting has occurred in Van Nuys, news media outlets report.

In what is probably the creepiest news of the day, someone has been putting porcelain dolls that resemble actual human girls in front of the houses where they live in San Clemente.

Following Thursday's announcement of the lineup for the world's oldest film festival, find out which Hollywood stars will be attending which premieres, with some even doing multiple duties at the same time.

Police asked for the public's help today to find the man responsible for the death of a 57-year-old man who was attacked while he was trying to protect a child at a restaurant in Hollywood from a violent assault.

President Barack Obama continued his 24-hour visit to the Los Angeles area today, taking part in a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Brentwood then surprising the lunch crowd at Canter's Deli where he bantered with the crowd and sat down with four pre-selected diners.

Hilary Anderson was in grade school then, but she remembers the “swampland of molasses” in the kitchen after Southern California's last destructive earthquake throttled her Simi Valley home.

LOS ANGELES_"Frozen," Disney's animated musical about a pair of royal sisters, was last year's highest-grossing film worldwide - and also one of its most unusual, according to a study released Thursday by researchers at University of Southern California.

The 11th annual "hybrid vision" New Original Works Festival at REDCAT debuts eight new pieces, a varied batch of multidisciplinary works by mostly early-career artists intent on shaking up creative traditions.

When President Barack Obama comes through town, we can always expect a traffic jam, and if we're by his motorcade, we have to stay put while he and his team roll through. One pregnant woman who was going in labor on Wednesday afternoon waited at a bus stop while the motorcade was blocking the street to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Max Goldstein was 15 years old when he hopped on a plane to Caracas, Venezuela, to spend his sophomore year of high school as an exchange student.

Residents of four condos in Sylmar had a frightening awakening Monday morning, July 21, as a fire swept through their attic.

I was a guest on Warren Olney's "Which Way, L.A.?" on KCRW-FM this past Monday afternoon when the host stumped me.

Fact met fiction Wednesday in one of those Hollywood ways: The real-life president of the United States complains about "phony scandals" in the presence of the producer and the star of a hit TV drama about indignity and dishonor among Washington's political elite.

Former City Councilman Richard Alarcon was convicted by a jury Wednesday of three charges of voter fraud, and one charge of perjury, in connection with his claim that he lived in a rundown Panorama City home rather than his wife's nicer Sun Valley home while Alarcon was in office and voted in elections.

They're a young local band with a blues and rock soul and a relentless touring schedule that brings them to Long Beach on Saturday for a show and record release party that could signify the next step in their musical journey.

But the romantic, popular conception of the city that solidified in those years bears increasingly little resemblance to Los Angeles today.