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Gray Davis, David Fleming Defend "LA 20/20" to Criticism the Group is Light...

Is LA 20/20, the high-powered committee that includes former Gov. Gray Davis and was selected by former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor and multimillionaire Austin Beutner to find ways...

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Steven Brooks, Ex-Legislator, In SoCal Pursuit That Ends In Attack On Cop Dog...

The first assemblyman ever expelled from Nevada's legislature was arrested in Southern California yesterday following a bizarre CHP pursuit and subsequent attack on a police dog. Some of the ac...

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Supercute Bulldog Pup Stolen From Home By SoCal DirecTV Installer, Cops...

Cops say a 38-year-old undocumented worker installing DirecTV systems took a $2,500 English bulldog puppy from a customer's home in Victorville. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department t...

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Tobias Dustin Summers Is Kidnapper Of Northridge Girl, Remains At-Large, Cops...

A man cops say has a lengthy record, including allegations of kidnapping and robbery, was named today as the main suspect in the shocking abduction of a Northridge girl earlier this week. Tobia...

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L.A. to Build Football Stadium at 405-10 Interchange

By Eva Recinos and Zachary Pincus-Roth The City of L.A. today reached a historic agreement on a new NFL football stadium to be built at the intersection of the 405 and the 10 freeways. The de...

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American Men Don't Pay For Sex As Often As You Think

Men are whore-mongering pervs. But only in their secret lives. That has been the rap on American guys, at least since the postwar days when the infamous Kinsey report discovered that more than ...

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Easter Bunny Stopped By CHP (PHOTO)

What's wrong with this picture? An Easter bunny riding down the freeway in motorcycle with a sidecar on Easter weekend? Perfectly normal scene for Southern California. Except that the bunny was...

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Jesus Christ Would Probably Be Glad that Google Honored Cesar Chavez on Easter

Cesar Chavez was no saint, but he did do the Christian thing when he saw an entire class of people, Latino and Filipino farm workers, suffering in slum-like living conditions, putting in gruelin...

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Red-Car Flasher Suspect Luis Bucio-Cedeno Arrested In Valley

They got the "red-car flasher," cops say, but where's the red car? The smoking gun in the two-year-long case of dozens of indecent-exposure reports, a red Toyota Camry, was not with 24-year-old...

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Westside Mansions' Power-Use Gluttony Confirmed By Awesome UCLA Electricity Map

An awesome new electricity use map created by UCLA's California Center for Sustainable Communities shows what you probably already suspect. Those righteous Prius drivers and aficionados of all ...

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Daniel Martinez Arrested In Abduction Of 10-Year-Old Northridge Girl

One of two men alleged to have abducted a 10-year-old girl from her Northridge home was arrested over the weekend, cops announced. The suspect wasn't the man named by police on Saturday, Tobias...

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L.A. City Hall Finds New Way To Ignore You -- With MyLA311 App

Technology is just amazing. Besides providing new ways for you be embarrassed by your mom (Facebook), called out by your peers (Twitter) and dumped by your lesser half (texting), smartphones ca...

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RedBall Art Project Comes To Los Angeles (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

A huge red ball on the streets of downtown? Is it a stray from Coachella? Did the beach just move east? No, it's an art project from New York called RedBall. And it's here through Thursday: ...

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Marijuana Users Don't Eat More, Study Says

The stereotype of the chunky, Cheetos-scarfing pothead never rang true to us. All the daily smokers we knew were more like Spicoli than Belushi (who appeared to like the nose candy anyway). Yet...

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Dodgers Opening Day: All Kershaw, Koufax Comparisons Are on the Table

There was no time stamp from Vin Scully as Clayton Kershaw prepared to face the final batter. You know, "On the scoreboard in right field it is 9:46 p.m. in the City of the Angels, Los Angeles,...

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Is Anything 'Made in California' Anymore? Law Would Create Prideful Label

You know you swell up just a little bit when you read that "Designed by Apple in California" label on the back of your iPhone. Don't be too proud, though: ...

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Bomb Prank at L.A. Port Apparently Not That Funny: John Edward Bearden Gets...

A former Port of Los Angeles mechanic was sentenced to house arrest after he admitted to punking his co-workers with a fake bomb. John Edward Bearden says he did it to ... ...

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Wendy Greuel Seeks To Reboot Campaign, Acknowledging Her Union Backing Has...

Wendy Greuel this morning launched a reboot of her campaign for mayor of L.A., giving a speech at UCLA that attacked the media and rival Eric Garcetti, while including a tacit admission that she ...

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5 Reasons John Travolta is Definitely, Absolutely NOT Gay

Okay -- we know what you're thinking: John Travolta is super friggin' gay: He makes Andy Dick look like a mixed-martial arts heavyweight from Brazil. But hear us out: Some of the allegations a...

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'Illegal Immigrant' Is So Over, AP Declares

Immigrants' advocates have long argued that entering the United States without permission makes you about as much an illegal immigrant as blowing through a stop sign makes you an illegal driver....

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