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Actress Valerie Harper, best known for her long-running role as Mary Richards' sassy sidekick Rhoda Morgenstern on TV's "Mary Tyler Moore Show" and spinoff "Rhoda," has revealed she has terminal brain cancer.

A man working at a polling place set up at an elementary school in Watts was shot several times this morning by a woman he got into a fight with there.

A woman accused of a hit-and-run collision that took the life of a tow truck driver who was working on the roadside on Pacific Coast Highway has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run.

Classic movies never go out of style, and the experience is even more delightful when you're seeing a great old flick on the big screen in an historic venue. The L.A. Conservancy's beloved Last Remaining Seats screening series schedule is out for this summer, and tickets will be available in the coming weeks.

Authorities in Newport Beach are working to determine the identity of a young woman whose deceased body was found on the beach early Monday morning.

Mark Heller, the attorney for Lindsay Lohan, was in court today to meet the new judge on her case and to try to get the whole works delayed so they could work out a deal. But it was no dice on all fronts, and Lohan's trial will continue as scheduled, with Lohan herself ordered to appear at the next date.

Talk of who should host the 86th Annual Academy Awards in 2014 has begun. Though there were cries-aplenty during Sunday's broadcast for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to take over the honors, right now it seems ABC's resident nighttime funnyman Jimmy Kimmel is the frontrunner.

If you've got a hankering for some grilled cheese, there's no better day to sate your appetite for the beloved sandwich than on April 20, 2013, when the Grilled Cheese Invitational holds its 11th annual gathering.

Law enforcement agencies in L.A. County have announced information regarding planned sobriety and driver's license checkpoints and saturation patrols for this weekend.

Actress Bonnie Franklin, known best for her starring role as the matriarch in the sitcom "One Day At A Time," has died. She was 69.

A man named as the suspect in a deadly shooting on the Las Vegas strip that caused a fiery crash and took three lives remains at large today. 26-year-old ex-con Ammar Harris has a history of bragging online about being a wealthy pimp.

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