Babies makin' babies? Oh, Justin... A lawsuit filed this week claims teen pop sensation Justin Bieber got a California woman preggers thanks to a backstage hookup at a Los Angeles concert. more ›

Police in San Bernardino have arrested a teenager accused of retaliating against a Good Samaritan by shooting at the man's home, leaving one three-year-old dead and another infant and pregnant woman injured. Video surveillance from a nearby store showed the suspect beating the woman and helped them identify the suspect. more ›

A three-year-old girl was killed and two other people were injured when a shooter walked up to a residence in San Bernardino last night and opened fire, reports CBS News. The victims were sitting outside a home on the front porch at around 8:00 p.m. on the 1300 block of D Street when the incident occurred. more ›

While epic musical acts and plenty of eye candy kept audiences glued to the tube, everyone (and every news site) seems to be talking about one thing - Beyoncé's big announcement. Following her performance, the fierce songstress unbuttoned her sparkly purple jacket to reveal and rub her baby bump, publicly announcing her pregnancy to the world. more ›

Dang, social networking has sure changed how we relate to each other doesn't it? Facebook users, take note. In one state, there's a kind of friendship that is verboten, but parents-to-be all over the globe can tell their friends the big news in just one convenient click. more ›

A pregnant woman was injured and a suspected drunk driver is in custody after a dangerous police chase this morning, reports L.A. Now. The driver, a man whose name has not been released, was initially pulled over for a traffic stop just after 3:00 a.m. today. more ›

The fourteenth amendment states it clearly: A person born on U.S. soil is a full-fledged citizen subject to state and federal law. This direct path to citizenship lends itself to a shady business model that has prompted the city of San Gabriel to shut down at least one converted townhouse with 10 newborns and 12 Chinese nationals citing building code violations. more ›

Ladies, that lovely glow isn't the only potential benefit of your baby bump. Imagine if your expectancy netted you parking perks, like free parking at city meters? Don't throw out your NuvaRing just yet, Angelenas. The new law is actually on the table in New York City, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen here, right? more ›

In celebrity coupling and procreating news of the day: Actress Natalie Portman, 29, is engaged and pregnant, People is reporting. The lucky groom and papa to be is Benjamin Millepied, who "acted as choreographer and Portman's onscreen dance partner," in her current release, Black Swan, says MTV. more ›

Jaime Solis Olmos was convicted on charges of "attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder," against his pregnant girlfriend and their unborn child, reports the Daily News. Olmos, of Oxnard, now faces "25 years to life in prison for paying two men $500 to stage a robbery and punch his pregnant girlfriend so she would have a miscarriage." more ›

The remains of missing 17-year-old Anyssia Katherine Escamilla were found yesterday at a Corona landfill, according to LA Now. Escamilla was reported missing in May, but soon after her boyfriend, 18-year-old Jesus Avitia Jr., claimed he had killed her and put her body in the trash. Since his admission, "Avitia has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and is being held on $2-million bail." The remains were found after a 70-day search of area landfills. At the time of her death, Escamilla was about 3 months pregnant with Avitia's child, and had a 3-year-old from a previous relationship. more ›

A suspect has been arrested in connection to a Tuesday night murder that left a woman and her unborn twins dead. Around 10 p.m., officers were called to a home on the 1600 block of Electric Avenue--just one block from Abbott Kinney--when they saw a possible suspect running from the location. Boneetio Kentro Washington, 22, of Culver City was then arrested and is now thought to be connected to other sexual crimes on the Westside. more ›

Yesterday morning just before 10:30, 24-year-old Porche Davis, 8 months pregnant, was run over by the driver of a dark-colored Range Rover near East 102nd and Towne Avenue in South L.A., cbs2.com is reporting. As a result, Davis underwent an emergency C-section, and while "her baby was placed on life support," the child died yesterday evening. That same day, "Monica Macado, the driver of the Range Rover, turned herself into police." Police report there was some sort of dispute between the women; Davis' father claims "Macado is the baby's father ex-girlfriend and has had confrontations with his daughter before." He believes Macado acted out of rage or jealously. more ›

An announcement for Labor Day (or it just happened to fall on it), John McCain's VP running mate Sarah Palin said that her daughter Bristol Palin, 17, is five months pregnant. Palin most recently gave birth to her down syndrome son Trig in April, but rumors spread on the internet that it was actually Bristol's. Today's announcement was in effort to debunk that rumor. Sarah and Todd Palin said they were proud of Bristol's decision to keep the baby and were even prouder to be grandparents. Also: David Markland at California Faultline points out that governing the state of Alaska (pop. 670,000) is like being mayor of Los Angeles, if it were a sixth of its current size. more ›

While a couple of movies are hardly enough to qualify as zeitgeist, there's something serendipitous about the back-to-back release of two films featuring teenage Latino protagonists growing up in East Los Angeles.* Wassup Rockers and Quinceañera both focus on teenagers defying familial and cultural expectations, but even though they were both shot on video and take a quasi-documentary approach towards their subjects, they achieve very different results.... more ›