Lindsay William-Ross

It's not (necessarily) the punch line to a joke in comedian Janeane Garofalo's stand-up routine, it's actually part of the tale of Garofalo's quickie divorce that was two decades in the making.

If you spend some time on either the UCLA or USC campuses this week, you may notice that each of their iconic statues are under wraps. It's part of the annual tradition to protect against thievery or vandalism from their rivals, and it's part of the excitement leading up to the "big game" on November 17.

Police in El Sereno are searching for a suspect and a victim in what appears to be a kidnapping that took place Monday night in a rugged hilly area.

Microsoft is setting up offices in Venice Beach, and their new digs will put them pretty close to Google's Venice outpost.

A Craigslist sale went awry late last week in Glendale, as what was meant to be the sale of some cellphones escalated into a robbery at gunpoint.

When is a neon sign not a neon sign? How about when its colorful neon is replaced with LED lights. This was the recent fate of the iconic Felix the Cat sign that hovers about Felix Chevrolet on Figueroa Avenue, and fans and preservationists are banding together to make their case for going back to the original neon.

From art "on pointe" at the beach to the illuminated gateway to Chinatown, here are 7 moments worth taking a second look at in our 7 Reasons to Love L.A. series.

It definitely wasn't business as usual Sunday on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, thanks to the discovery of a suspicious package thought to have contained an explosive device.

A 21-year-old motorist who flipped his car on the 5 Freeway in the Sun Valley area Sunday was ultimately deemed to be the hit-and-run driver responsible for fatally striking an elderly pedestrian that same day.

Brrrr! This may have been the weekend Angelenos turned on their heaters for the first time this season, and while we are under a freeze watch in some areas, we are also headed into a warming trend with Santa Ana winds...until it turns cold again a couple of days later. Keeping up? Okay!