Emma G. Gallegos

"Modern Family" star Sarah Hyland was just granted a temporary restraining order against her ex-boyfriend. In court documents, she claims that he choked her, pushed her and threatened to set her house on fire.

An off-duty LAPD officer was found dead of an apparent suicide in Thousand Oaks Tuesday evening after Ventura County deputies were called to the scene of a domestic disturbance call.

United States District Judge Percy Anderson had stern words for them: "You have embarrassed the sheriff's department. None of you showed the courage to do what's right."

It sounds like a British writer Will Self had a rough trip to Los Angeles. He reports that while he was staying at a boutique hotel on Fairfax, they refused to turn down the triphop while he was eating breakfast.

A new batch of apparently hacked celebrity nudes appeared on Reddit and 4chan this morning, just weeks after last month's massive leak of celebrity nudes.

The city of Los Angeles is considering a proposal to bring emergency services into the 21st century: making it possible to text 9-1-1.

Daniele Watts responded to a request from some local civil rights activists that she apologize to the community and the LAPD.

It seems like just about every week there's news that a cop shot one person or another around Los Angeles, but one group decided to crunch the numbers and found out that's true.

There are new stats out showing that the Los Angeles area has the highest poverty rates of the biggest cities.

Good news for the 40 percent of Californians who don't have paid sick days: Governor Jerry Brown just signed a bill guaranteeing that almost all of us get three paid sick days a year.

It's an artistic statement, not a blatant attempt to drum up controversy and cash in on a high-profile sex crime or anything.

The wildly popular but also controversial plan to bring a slip-n-slide downtown right in the middle of a drought is getting support from city officials thanks to a plan to reuse that water.