Lindsay William-Ross

Campus police at Cal State San Bernardino fatally shot a 38-year-old mentally ill graduate student who had been powerfully resisting restraint by authorities. Bartholomew Williams was shot five times Saturday night in a school-operated housing complex by officers who said the man exhibited "superhuman strength."

The bodies of a man and two women were found at the scene of a house fire in Azusa Thursday, and all three victims had suffered gunshot wounds, says the coroner's office.

Los Angeles, you have a Poet Laureate. The first-ever wordsmith to hold this title is Eloise Klein Healy, a 69-year-old Sherman Oaks resident considered a veteran on the L.A. literary scene.

They might have been doing some serious puff-puff-passing in Seattle this week following the start of legalized recreational marijuana use in Washington state, but Angelenos who toke for non-medical reasons are still breaking federal law. And L.A.'s soon-to-be-exiting mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, says he's not ready to get behind legalizing pot in California.

This holiday season has become a bit turbulent for ailing elderly actress Zsa Zsa Gabor and her eccentric husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, after Gabor had to be whisked off to the hospital yet again for treatment.

Residents at a senior citizens facility in the Santa Clarita Valley were mad as hell and they weren't going to take it anymore. Yes, Virginia, the war on Christmas was being waged right in the community room of The Willows senior complex, and it was centered around the venerable Christmas tree.

It's beginning to look a lot like the holidays all over Los Angeles County. Giant trees seem to scrape the sky at outdoor malls, neighborhoods are twinkling with dazzling light displays, and windows are dressed to suit the season. We thought we'd take a photographic stroll down the decked halls of Christmases past, and see what L.A. and other cities and neighborhoods in the county looked like all decorated years ago.

The carcass of a 40-foot long fin whale that washed ashore in Malibu is still lodged on the beach, and just what to do with the remains of the massive mammal remains unclear.

The Los Angeles Police Department and their motivation to make arrests are under scrutiny following an email blunder that provided a news organization with insider information.

When you pull into a hard-sought parking space in the City of Los Angeles, and then discover the meter is busted, do you get back in your car and move on? You'd better, because it's been the law for two years that you can be ticketed for parking at a broken meter, and today the Los Angeles City Council voted to uphold that policy.