Emma G. Gallegos

Creative visionary James Franco has opened an acting school in North Hollywood that teaches the famed Meisner technique.

The bodies of a pair 58-year-old twin sisters were discovered by police in their Long Beach home.

A man is recovering in the hospital after surviving what sounds like a nasty mountain lion attack in Riverside County. The 50-year-old homeless man was camping near Highway 74 just west of Perris on Saturday night, when he was attacked by a creature around 8 p.m.

This flu season has been deadly: so far 147 people have died of the flu, and another 44 deaths are being investigated as being flu-related. You may be thinking only old people die of the flu, but that number actually only includes people under 65.

A jury has decided that the LAPD used excessive force when it fatally shot an unarmed man in Koreatown. A jury in a civil case awarded $750,000 to the 4-year-old son of Dontaze Storey Jr.

LAX has been cracking down on ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft picking up their passengers from the airport.

Justin Bieber is speaking out about his arrest through—what else?—Instagram.

The New York Times' Dealbook blog noticed that something interesting happened today on an otherwise humdrum day for SeaWorld in January: the stock surged 8.39 percent to a level higher than it's been since August. Dealbook wrote, "it’s not a stretch to suggest that the Oscar snub was fueling the stock’s rise."

It's not just chefs and sushi chefs: California's new law requiring food workers to wear gloves affects bartenders, too.

The mayor's car hit a woman walking in downtown this afternoon, sending her to the hospital. The car was headed eastbound on 2nd Street near Spring Street around 12:20 p.m. when it hit the woman.

An Orange County jury today found the two police officers involved in the fatal beating of Kelly Thomas not guilty of any of the charges they faced.

The Golden Globes is being held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel this Sunday, and Beverly Hills Police announced closures for those of us without an invite.