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An aspiring rapper has been identified as among the dead in a shooting and fiery crash that rocked the Las Vegas Strip early Thursday morning.

A fight early Friday morning between two people outside the Belasco Theater in Downtown Los Angeles escalated into a set of stabbings that left four people injured.

Police in Whittier are on the hunt for a male suspect who appears to be targeting young girls for kidnapping. With the most recent abduction attempt taking place Thursday afternoon, police are piecing together what appears to be a series of incidents perpetrated by a suspect who wears a mask and grabs girls and puts them in his vehicle.

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office has conducted an autopsy on the body of 21-year-old Elisa Lam, the Canadian woman whose body was discovered this week inside a water tank atop Downtown's Cecil Hotel.

Parents whose children attend several Encinitas elementary schools are so fed up with the yoga classes there that they have filed a lawsuit against the district.

The Los Angeles Police Department were called out to the famed Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills early this morning in response to an assault call that was ultimately deemed phony.

It's no surprise that a New York-based restaurant with a kind of Hollywood pedigree is finally making it all the way out west and opening up right in the heart of--where else?--Hollywood.

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One burning car escalated into three burning cars parked along a North Hollywood street early Wednesday morning thanks to a gas-fueled chain reaction blaze.

Although rock star Morrissey was under the impression the Staples Center was going to enact a full-on ban of "flesh for food" (aka meat) for his upcoming show it turns out the arena is going to add on several vegetarian options, but still serve up the meat for music-loving carnivores.

The female body found dead inside a water tank atop a Downtown Los Angeles hotel matches the "body markings" of missing Canadian tourist Elisa Lam, who was last seen at the hotel before she was reported missing.

What's an incarcerated Wiccan to do when it comes to practicing their religion behind bars? For some female inmates at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, the solution is to demand a chaplain be brought on to facilitate their worship, and that case is now in federal appeals court.