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A lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department on behalf of two lesbian officers has been settled before heading to trial, and today the L.A. City Council announced their approval of the $1.25 million payout.

It's been a long time since L.A.'s Echo Park Lake has been its usual self. A two-year-long rehab project has been taking place, putting iconic items like the Lady of the Lake statue on the move, and looking more like a construction zone than a lake-dotted city park. But the end is in sight: The lake is set to re-open in mid-May.

The Key Club is no more, and after a mourning period sufficient enough to do some remodeling, the venue already has a new tenant poised to rock the L.A. nightlife.

An unidentified person was found dead early Tuesday morning after what appears to be either a fatal jump or fall onto an offramp of the 101 Freeway in Hollywood.

Students at a Southern California high school claim their lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community has been the target of discrimination, and in this case, the perpetrators are among the school administration.

The law in Los Angeles County is that if you're making porn, your performers need to be wearing condoms. Now comes word the first complaint against a porn company has been filed, alleging the production was in violation of the voter-approved law, Measure B.

Peter Ivan McNeal, former drummer for the band Cake, has been convicted on charges he molested a 3-year-old girl during a Thanksgiving dinner celebration at a Laurel Canyon home back in 2009.

We now know what was being discussed behind closed doors this morning after Lindsay Lohan and her legal team arrived (almost an hour late) to court in L.A. today. Lohan has accepted a plea deal, and will avoid trial and jail time (for now).

These are, as usual, trying times for Lindsay Lohan. Today the actress managed to be an hour late for the start of her current trial here in Los Angeles, and she was greeted by the usual throng of photographers and media, as well as a sparkly glitter bomb.

Authorities in Sherman Oaks are looking for a suspected peeper who used his iPad to take upskirt photos of a woman inside a pet shop.

Two shootings in Panorama City this weekend appear to be unrelated, however they marked in quick succession the first and second homicides in the neighborhood this year, and both took place on city streets.

This is getting to be routine in Santa Barbara County: A large quantity of marijuana was found on a beach in Santa Barbara County along with a boat, indicating a smuggling operation gone awry.