It was another rough and tumble night Thursday on the mean streets of Hollywood as performers dressed in costume outside the Kodak Theater became involved in a brawl. The fight involved a man dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise of films being pepper sprayed by another costumed character dressed as Catwoman. more ›

'Tis the season to slug the girl who took that Versace dress you've been eyeing all week. After all, it's Black Friday and that means anything goes. This morning the Culver City Police got a few calls from shoppers taking things too far (or maybe not far enough!). ABC 7 has footage of a brawl that erupted in front of the H&M this morning at the Westfield in Culver City. more ›

If you're going to streak across a sports arena, you should try to choose an opportune moment to do it. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way for one local nudie as he ran around Arizona stadium in the buff yesterday during a UCLA-Arizona game. According to NBC Los Angeles, the streaker came out onto the field dressed as a referee. more ›

There's getting to know new people at a party, and then there's crossing the line: A Buena Park man was arrested this weekend when he allegedly bit off and chewed on a chunk of another man's eyebrow. 29-year-old Luis Miguel Aguilar reportedly got into a fight with a fellow party-goer, a 41-year-old man from Placentia. more ›

A stabbing on the grounds of the L.A. County Fair in Pomona led to the arrest of three men Sunday night. The incident took place at around 10 p.m., and involved two groups of people who broke into a fight in an area of the fairgrounds where liquor is sold. more ›

This is starting to become a regular thing: A fight Friday night on a Metro train has resulted in a stabbing and an arrest, says the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The incident took place at around 6:30 p.m. aboard a Metro Gold Line train headed northbound to the Memorial Park Station in Pasadena. more ›

Police today said they aren't going to arrest the rapper Game for an alleged assault at a Hollywood club early on Tuesday morning. The rapper showed up at Hollywood Police Station today to tell police that he didn't throw any punches in Tuesday night's scuffle. After interviewing witnesses and taking a look at the shaky partial footage of the incident, the police told TMZ that they bought Game's story. more ›

Rapper Game may have shedded the "the" from his moniker, but he can't seem to shed local law enforcement from his business. The native Angeleno, nee Jayceon Terrell Taylor, but also known as Charles Louboutin, was caught on tape in a fight at the Colony nightclub in Hollywood. more ›

You're dining out with a colleague, and want to split the check, but are told when the bill comes you needed to make that intention clear before you ordered. Would you come back and punch out your waitress? North Hollywood's Della Hamby, was one of two Lil Wayne backup dancers arrested in Connecticut for her role in a scuffle with a PF Chang's waitress that started with a split-check difference of opinion. more ›

Described by witnesses as "an all-out brawl," a fight at an Orange County restaurant ended with a 20-year-old man being stabbed to death, another man stabbed and in critical condition and third man severely beaten, according to ABC Local. The melee reportedly began when friends of the victim "began spitting at two women standing in line." more ›

DJ, jewelry auctioneer, amateur psychologist and Lakers forward Ron Artest stepped in front of a TMZ camera over the weekend to break up a fight between a man and a woman on Hollywood Blvd. more ›

Police have released a sketch of a suspect wanted in connection with a May 6 assault outside of O’Brien’s Irish Pub & Restaurant in Santa Monica that left a man in critical condition. The 46-year-old victim was reportedly "drunk and collided with the suspect, who became so upset that he began to push the victim and knocked him to the ground," around 1:00 a.m., say police. The man lost consciousness after hitting his head on the concrete and remains in critical condition at a local hospital, reports LA Now. more ›

Someone's been drinking the Mike Tyson kool-aid. During a fight at a Tustin 7-11, 26-year-old Ramon Bachocisneros of Santa Ana wielded a bottle and slashed another man on the neck, then severed part of his ear, reports the Daily Breeze. The fight occurred on March 11. After it, Bachocisneros fled the scene in a green Astro van. He was arrested yesterday. more ›

The woman who serves as a top staffer in the city's anti-gang program under Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is on administrative leave today after her arrest at a Downtown club this weekend. A fight between Blanca Martinez-Navarro and her husband became a larger altercation involving security and law enforcement personnel at the Conga Room at L.A. Live early Sunday morning, and both the husband and wife left the nightclub in cuffs, according to KTLA. more ›

A Korean foreign exchange student has died following a fight with a classmate at Sylmar's First Lutheran High School. The Los Angeles Police Department explain that the squabble began on Tuesday afternoon as a verbal dispute regarding cultural differences that turned into a physical fight that proved fatal. more ›

Booze-fueled tailgating plus deep-rooted college football rivalries equaled volatility late yesterday afternoon when a brawl broke out in the Rose Bowl parking lot ahead of the big match-up between UCLA and USC. The drunken melee grew to involve 50-75 people, according to the LA Times, throwing punches, and, in some cases, wielding knives. more ›

Yo, Venice! A fight that involved some 70 people on Venice's boardwalk last night has prompted the LAPD to kick up their presence today, according to the LA Times. Around 8 p.m. a fight erupted on the boardwalk near 17th and Windward Avenue... more ›

Yesterday morning, detectives from the Special Victims Bureau of the LA County Sheriff's Department arrested 44-year-old Stephen Wesley on charges of child endangerment. Wesley worked for the LA County Office of Education as a substitute teacher in the summer of 2008 at their Camp Holton Probabtion Facility when his class began a discussion about gangs. more ›

Amid the chaos at today's Conan O'Brien rally at Universal Studios was this gem of a moment. "Two martial-arts guys dressed as Jay and Conan had a battle royale, with a full-on Jackie Chan-style choreographed routine," described Kampy in the LAist comments section about the rally. more ›

Few details right now, but KABC-TV has reported that heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson has gotten into some scuffle with the paparazzi at LAX (wrong guy to harass?). It happened around 4:45 p.m. Unsubstantiated, but one person tweeted: "Mike Tyson just got arrested outside United terminal 7 LAX for punching one of the paparazzi!" more ›

Young R&B star Chris Brown says the media has the story all wrong, but it still seems as if a part of the tale is that he roughed up fellow singer and (ex?) girlfriend Rihanna and then turned himself in just before the pair were due to be at Staples Center for the Grammys. more ›

Most bar fights should, by rights, involve women and their jealous boyfriends, or the old "Tastes great/Less filling" debate. Of course, tension between bar patrons is often brought on by sports rivalries, and at J's Cocktail Lounge in Fullerton, this was no exception. more ›

A fight that broke out between opponents and proponents of Prop 8, the November 4th ballot initiative that sought to ban gay marriage in California, ended with two people apparently being sent to the hospital. Leah Murphy of Westwood said she was walking with a group of ten friends at Thursday's protest outside the Mormon Temple on Santa Monica Blvd. when two women who were said to have come from within church grounds began to call them derogatory names. more ›

Tucked secretly away amongst residential condos and too-snug street parking sits The Schindler House, a small artistic enclave that is part of the larger Mak Center. The unobtrusive works of modern beauty blend seamlessly with the grass and garden that occupy a worthy portion of the smallish plot. And perhaps it is here, on the oblong lawn as the sun sets over consistently progressive West Hollywood, that films like The Garden truly deserve to be screened. more ›

Not cool. The LAPD is asking the public's help in identifying the man in the blue polo shirt who repeatedly punched a 16-year-old girl in the face at a McDonalds near Crenshaw and Florence in South LA back on on the morning of September 14. more ›

How the hell did a fight break out last night after Three 6 Mafia's show at the House of Blues in West Hollywood? The brawl led to the crowd fleeing the building with one woman getting trampled. Have you been to this venue? Going through their security is tougher than the airport and sometimes lasts just as long. more ›

Not a lot of people showed up to "No War on Iran" protest earlier this month on Saturday, August 3rd. Apparently, word didn't get around activist groups e-mail lists and only a small gathering of people showed up to Pershing Square that afternoon. One LAist commenter, jrb, was there and helps put a story to LAist Photographer Tom Andrews' photos. more ›

A fight on an Orange Line bus yesterday evening continued on after six involved people got off at the Valley College station at Burbank Blvd. and Fulton Ave. One person was shot, another was beaten and three others were taken into custody. The two injured men were reported to be in fair condition according to the Daily News. more ›

Police were called to the 14th floor of Long Beach's city hall last week when what appears to be a verbal incident occurred between a couple and a staff member, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Both in the midst of filing for divorce, Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal and her husband, Superior Court Judge Daniel Lowenthal, got into an argument and a council staff person was reportedly involved. And if the family matters could not get anymore entangled, Judge Lowenthal was only visiting City Hall to visit his mother, Councilwoman and Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal. more ›

New footage has been released of one of the weekend's brawls at Paradise Cove in Malibu, this one shot by a mother who was there with her son. This particular scene proves some of the beach goers were acting just as bad as the paparazzi. more ›