Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said Thursday that detectives believe they know “how and why” Fox movie executive Gavin Smith was killed, saying the discovery of his remains brought them closer to an arrest in the case.
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California Republicans scored a rare victory in Tuesday's election by denying Democrats a two-thirds legislative supermajority that would consign GOP lawmakers to virtual irrelevance in the state Capitol.
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An Italian Revival-style villa in Hollywood Hills built in the 1920s for early actor Orville Caldwell is on the market at $1.649 million.
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Former Long Beach Poly Coach Raul Lara is working wonders at Warren High.
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A gated 25-acre estate in Beverly Hills has come on the market at $195 million, making it the most expensive home to be publicly listed for sale in the U.S.
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Continuing what has become somewhat of an annual event for the Miami Heat president and Lakers coaching great, Pat Riley has listed two beachfront homes in Malibu for lease at $18,500 a month and $16,500 a month.
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Botox maker Allergan Inc. said it’s discussing a merger with an unnamed firm as it battles a hostile takeover by Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
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The Anaheim Marriott hotel is rolling back its rates about 15% for those who visit in December. It's close to Disneyland and Downtown Disney at a fraction of the price for resort hotels.
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Fans of Gjelina and Gjelina Take Away (GTA) have been waiting for Gjusta, the bakery from the same folks, for a long time. After many delays and recurrent dreams of pastries, rye bread and smoked fish, chef-owner Travis Lett and his team opened Gjusta on Oct. 29 in Venice. That sound...
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It took 100 firefighters more than two hours to put out a fire that ripped through a commercial building in Boyle Heights early Thursday, burning four businesses inside.
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A revamped citywide workforce development program powered by $36 million in federal funds, private grants and equipment will seek to combat a yawning skills gap in Southern California.
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A 37-year-old Oakland man was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years to life in prison for trafficking a 16-year-old girl for prostitution across three Southern California counties, prosecutors said.
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An LAPD detention officer has been arrested on suspicion of accepting compensation from bail agents in exchange for information about inmates booked at the Van Nuys Jail, authorities said.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum paid more than $65 million for an Édouard Manet painting at auction Wednesday evening in New York, shattering the record price for the French artist's work and acquiring what the museum said would be one of the top five paintings in its collection.
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An Encino man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to attacking a man with a rock and a steel trash can at Griffith Park, authorities said.
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Lee Weinstein, who is 87, says he's never missed a chance to vote. It riles the former aerospace engineer when others don't bother and then have the nerve to whine.
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After years of noisy protests and angry marches, Anaheim residents voted in favor of creating City Council districts, giving a voice to those who contend the resort city has long marginalized people living in its dense urban core.
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More than 60% of California’s parole agents monitoring sex offenders have caseloads that exceed department policy, a report released Wednesday from the Office of the Inspector General found.
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The election of former state lawmaker Sheila Kuehl to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday cheered union activists and worried fiscal conservatives. Both sides view her victory as a watershed that could create a pro-labor majority likely to expand hiring and consider pay...
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Kevin Williams of Woodland Hills El Camino Real announced this week he will be stepping down as head coach at the end of this season.
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'Tis the season to power through wine tastings and festivals and to savor special dinners that pair a menu with the wines of a single producer. Here's a small collection of events coming up soon that might be fun -- and worth your attention.
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Balsa Dragovic, a 6-foot-10 senior at Montebello Cantwell-Sacred Heart, has committed to Harvard.
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Care about sustainable food? You really should. The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is sponsoring a quarterly series of conversations hosted by L.A. Times Food Editor Russ Parsons on issues of sustainability.
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Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he and comedian Micah "Katt" Williams stole a photographer's camera outside a Beverly Hills film and TV studio.
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To call director Edgar G. Ulmer "versatile," as the subtitle of the new repertory series spotlighting his work does, is like calling Buster Keaton funny or Marilyn Monroe attractive. It doesn't even begin to scratch the surface.
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A Los Angeles Police Department officer has been charged with exposing himself to women at the Bolsa Chica ecological reserve in Huntington Beach.
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Dozens of protestors with the group Occupy Los Angeles gathered Wednesday in Hollywood as part of a global Million Mask March.
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Embattled Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido won an unprecedented 11th term in Tuesday's election despite an ongoing district attorney investigation into a downtown real estate deal.
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Junior quarterback Malik Henry of Westlake plans to announce his college choice next Thursday, according to his Tweet on Wednesday.
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The 80th annual Garfield vs. Roosevelt game is set for Friday at 7:30 p.m. at East Los Angeles College.
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The longtime Malibu home of the late Henry Gibson of “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” fame is for sale at $6.9 million.
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Pop punk rocker Benji Madden of Good Charlotte has sold his gated vampire lair in Glendale for his asking price of $2.135 million.
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