Lindsay William-Ross

Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department showed up to Miley Cyrus' Studio City home Wednesday evening with their guns drawn and a chopper hovering overhead, following a call reporting a possible home invasion and kidnapping. Only...no one was home, and the call was a prank.

What happens after we die? Is there an "afterlife"? Researchers at UC Riverside have been awarded a $5 million grant that will enable them to spend the next three years exploring immortality and related issues through a scientific lens.

The National Park Service has announced the birth of two mountain lion kittens in the Santa Monica Mountains. The one male and one female were born in mid-June, and wee outfitted with tracking devices after they were found east of Circle X Ranch in Mailbu.

A small donation from a Walmart employee has stirred things up in the Eric Garcetti mayoral campaign, so much so that Garcetti has announced he will give the donation back.

Some people just love their chicken sandwiches...and many of them are showing up at their nearest Chick-fil-A today at the behest of former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, who has dubbed August 1 "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day."

Back for the original Carmageddon (which really didn't bring L.A. to its knees as perhaps imagined), JetBlue came up with the nifty idea to help people beat the alternative driving routes, and just fly from Burbank to Long Beach, replacing the valley-to-port commute on the 405 with $4 (each way) flights between the popular small airports. So will the PlanePool be helping Angelenos fly #OverThe405 again?

A spat arising from someone bumping someone on the streets of Hollywood escalated to a stabbing early Wednesday morning, leaving one man seriously wounded. The incident took place in the 6500 block of Hollywood Boulevard near Wilcox Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, and the area was shut down for some time to accommodate the investigation.

Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl's health has been making headlines this week, and on the heels of the revelation the civic leader has a medical marijuana scrip for neuropathy comes word today Rosendahl has been diagnosed with cancer.

The 52-year-old woman who filed suit earlier this year against actor Johnny Depp and the management of the Hollywood Palladium is defending her choice to file the suit anonymously in new documents submitted to the court today.

Chick-fil-A locations in SoCal and around the country will be the site of a planned day of protest next week in response to a recent controversial admission by the company's president that the business does not condone same-sex marriage and donates to anti-gay groups.

Did you wake up with a jolt at 3:18 this morning? If so, the culprit might be a 3.7 magnitude earthquake that struck 2 miles from Marina del Rey at that time Wednesday.

For the city of El Monte in the San Gabriel Valley, putting a tax on sugary drinks like sodas could mean up to $7 million in revenue.