Lindsay William-Ross

To those who worship at the mecca of Swedish assemble-it-yourself furniture and home decor, you are going to get a massive new temple. IKEA is moving ahead with securing land in Burbank on which they will build a store nearly twice the size of their current location.

The Los Angeles Zoo has announced that Minyak, their 31-year-old male orangutan died Thursday. Minyak had been ill his whole life, thanks to a chronic respiratory illness he contracted in infancy.

Actor Russell Brand is a friend of those far less fortunate than he; as we know, he has taken homeless people to breakfast before, and now he helped one with their full shopping cart.

uthorities now have in custody a 22-year-old man suspected of stabbing a man in the neck with a pen. The suspect, Joseph Carlos Beltran of Castaic, had been siphoning gas from a vehicle in Santa Clarita when the victim confronted him to ask if the car belonged to him.

Authorities in Glendale may have a new crime trend on their hands, after a second incident in which a would-be Craigslist sale of cellphones morphed into an armed robbery took place within a day of the first incident.

Celebs' drivers are going to have to learn new routes to new courthouses in Los Angeles County soon, since two locations where famous folks' cases are often heard are getting their budgets and services slashed.

The Beverly Hills Police Department has released images gathered from surveillance video showing at least two suspects dropping off a suspicious package with anti-Semitic markings outside a boutique on Rodeo Drive this weekend.

A transgender San Diego-area woman has filed a lawsuit alleging a federal agent tased her in the groin after learning she had previously been a man.

A pre-trial hearing for suspected Aurora, Colorado "Dark Knight Rises" movie theater shooter James Holmes, 24, has been postponed after his defense team revealed the prisoner had to be hospitalized.

An undocumented immigrant who broke into five homes and fondled girls and women while they slept has been convicted of his crimes.