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Scotty O'Neil Radio personality Scotty O'Neil, a longtime announcer on the Las Vegas celebrity talk show "The Dennis Bono Show," died Thursday after collapsing onstage during a commercial break of a show taping, reports the Las Vegas Sun. O'Neil dropped from the interview couch onstage at the South Point Casino in front of the live audience. He was 69. Prior to his work in Vegas, O'Neil began his professional journey in Los Angeles. He...

Long Beach native and rapper Nate Dogg will be remembered this weekend with a public viewing and funeral in his hometown, thanks to the help of local officials and his longtime friend Snoop Dogg. Nate Dogg, nee Nathaniel Hale, died March 15th at age 41, and had been in poor health in recent years after suffering several strokes. Today's viewing will take place at 10 a.m. at New Hope Baptist Church in Long Beach,...

90-year-old Jingyu Park was struck by two vehicles, including one that fled the scene, as he attempted to traverse the intersection of Valley View Avenue and Adoree Street, in the city of La Mirada. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department say the elderly pedestrian was using an unmarked crosswalk shortly before six o'clock this morning when he was hit by a silver Honda Accord. However, Park was the victim of a second accident, this...

few more details have become available about the shooting that took place midday Wednesday on Sunset Boulevard at Wilton Place in Hollywood involving U.S. Marshal's agents firing on a fugitive suspect. LA Now cites "sources familiar with the incident," who claim the suspect "allegedly tried to run over" the agents who were trailing him ...

When you think about effective treatments for pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, COPD, cystic fibrosis, tuberculosis and respiratory viral conditions, you might likely thing that a good place to start is a medical professional. A few years ago, however, you could have been one of Sami Arshak Yanikian's customers, who bought some of his “Sam’s Inhaler Spray For Viral Respiratory Infections” and “Sam’s Universal Oral Spray," or other bogus products claiming they could cure illnesses, including...

Singleton A 20-year-old Hemet man is being charged with attempted murder after he allegedly attacked his in-laws with a samurai sword. Neighbors reported that a man, later identified as suspect Zen Timothy Singleton, was "chasing his relatives through the neighborhood with a katana samurai sword," according to the Press-Enterprise. Singleton used the sword to smash several windows in the family home. During the course of the March 22 afternoon attack, Singleton's 50-year-old father-in-law was...

Photo by atomicshakespeares via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Food may well be the "new rock" but sometimes the worlds collide, as they did recently when Peter Bjorn & John dined at Hollywood's old school meat-and-martinis hang out, Musso & Frank. Over at a fun blog called, appropriately, Food is the New Rock, we learn that PB&J not only went to M&F, but they had their meal with a side dish of...

Klebsiella pneumoniae (Wikipedia) Just when you thought it was safe to go to the hospital, or elderly care facility comes the SUPERBUG. This superbug happens to be a "deadly bacteria thought to be resistant to all known remedies." And it's here. In Los Angeles. The Daily Breeze explains that the superbug is technically "a multiresistant form of Klebsiella pneumoniae, also known as CRKP," which "was formally thought to be contained to the East Coast."...

Costa Mesa is in the process of determining if the adage "there's no such thing as bad PR" is actually true. While the financially troubled city has just given the green light to lay off over 200 employees, they have also just announced they've "hired a communications specialist who will earn up to $3,000 a week," according to the OC Register. News of the impending layoffs was so troubling to one Costa Mesa employee...

Photo by RobeRt Vega via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr By a 7 to 6 vote this morning, Metro's Board of Directors approved the proposal to cut bus services, effective June 26th, reports The Source. The cuts will eliminate some lines and shorten others, with a goal of addressing cost efficiency and low ridership. Metro believes they will save $32 million annually thanks to the cuts, which will help the transit organization...

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has just denied a motion put forth that would allow same-sex marriages to resume in the state while the constitutionality of controversial Prop 8 awaits its fate in the Supreme Court. Plaintiffs in the case of Perry v. Brown/Coleman v. Brown had asked the court to allow gay marriages to resume because they believed that while Prop 8 had yet to be declared unconstitutional, it also had not been deemed acceptable by the court.

Just a few days after the Los Angeles Police Department made public edited portions of surveillance video taken inside the foyer of the "Centro De Alegria" Pre-School in Boyle Heights showing a nude man amusing himself and moving about in the empty room, an arrest has been made in the bizarre case. Using a tip from a Boyle Heights resident, detectives were able to positively identify the suspect, who is a 15-year-old male juvenile....