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.

That half-cent sales tax hike in the City of Los Angeles dreamed up by the City Council is edging closer to showing up on our March ballots, following a tentative vote taken today during the Council's meeting.

At long last, that fuzzy, ticklish, utterly adorable male baby panda born at the San Diego Zoo has a name!

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.

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!

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.

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.

A contract employee with the city of Burbank who worked as a graffiti remover has been busted for allegedly putting up over 100 tags around town himself, then turning around and billing the city for his work to remove them.

A young woman says she was raped while riding on a Metro bus, and authorities are looking for the suspect, and have surveillance images to help determine his identity.

Maybe the only thing ousted Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike Brown gave a cluck about after getting fired from the team is getting his hands on a tasty fried chicken sandwich.

Just hours after it launched, an eBay auction set up to benefit the wildlife sanctuary housing the infamous Glendale Bear was yanked offline, likely because it violated a state law about the sale of bear parts.

We got in touch with Chocolate Invitational organizers Mikki Sage and Ashely Walsh to learn how they dreamed up this tantalizing gathering, why chocolate can be tied to a love of earth, and how the sweet still tempts the kid in all of us.