Billy Gil

An Echo Park parents group has started a petition to build a fence around the playground near Echo Park Lake. The group Echo Park Parents feels that the playground is dangerously close to the lake, citing incidents where children have allegedly almost fallen into the lake or where dogs have come in from the neighboring dog path, creating a hazard for toddlers.

Shia LaBeouf apparently lifted from a soccer player’s speech from 1995 while at the Berlin Film Festival before walking offstage. LaBeouf was at a press conference today promoting Nyphomaniac, the sex-fueled film from director Lars von Trier.

If ever there was a reminder that it’s important to do your taxes correctly, it’s this: Michael Jackson’s estate apparently owes the IRS more than $702 million. The IRS has told Jackson’s estate that it owes $505 million in taxes, plus $197 in penalties.

A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake hit near Hollywood Saturday morning. The small temblor happened two miles from Hollywood, three miles from Los Angeles and four miles from West Hollywood and Glendale.

An unidentified 23-year-old man was shot two times while celebrating his birthday at an apartment complex near USC Friday night. USC students were temporarily told to stay indoors and not open the door to strangers after the non-lethal shooting took place around 11:30 p.m.

Time Warner Cable customers in Southern California couldn't watch the Super Bowl when Fox blacked out. KTTV was blacked out, making the SD version of the Super Bowl unviewable.

This week's edition of Overheard in L.A. features bits of overheard conversation from Hollywood to Westlake, including a brief encounter with The Biebs.

Forty passengers had to run for safety when a bus caught on fire in Norwalk Saturday night. The bus pulled off the 605 freeway at Imperial Highway and pulled over for riders to escape as flames shot out from the windows.

A peeping tom has been reported looking through windows near UCLA over the past week. Police are asking for help identifying the man, who was described as black, about 30 years old, about 5’11” and thin

A person was killed when an SUV driving on the 91 freeway went off an embankment and burst into flames Sunday morning. The car went over the right shoulder of the westbound freeway west of Paramount Blvd. around 4:40 a.m.

With new openings seemingly every month in the hip Northeast L.A. neighborhood, we take a look at 10 of our favorites that have opened over the past year and a half or so.

The State Water Project announced Friday it would be closing the faucet on water we get from Northern California. The State Water Project hasn’t cut off its supply in more than five decades.