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75 years of racing at Hollywood Park will come to its own finish line this year when the racetrack closes down for good this December.

A shooting in an apartment building in the Harbor-Gateway area has left three people dead and a fourth person wounded.

A teenaged girl is facing 51 years to life in prison after being convicted today of the first-degree murders of her mom and stepdad, which took place inside the family's mobile home in 2011.

Rumors Slayer's Jeff Hanneman died last week as a result of a spider bite turned out to be just rumors after all, as his bandmates announced Thursday the rocker's death has been attributed to "alcohol related cirrhosis."

For retired actress (and current crazypants) Amanda Bynes, she doesn't even have to be in Los Angeles to feel the loving embrace of the long arm of the law as she was sentenced today to probation and fines for her penchant for driving around L.A. on a suspended license.

An unidentified man his crediting his ownership of a self-proclaimed "large gun" for helping him keep a trio of young would-be robbers at bay Wednesday afternoon.

Adult film companies from Los Angeles hoping to seek refuge and prophylactic-free porn production in neighboring Ventura County are about to be screwed...and not in the way they'd like to be.

San Diego-based Christian metalcore band As I Lay Dying's lead singer, Tim Lambesis, has been arrested on Oceanside on suspicion he tried to hire an undercover detective to kill his wife.

Veteran actress Jeanne Cooper, best known for her longstanding role as Katherine Chancellor on the daytime soap opera "The Young and the Restless" has died. Cooper was 84.

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Okay, so what is the deal with the letters spelling out GLASSELLAND on the hillside in Glassell Park?

Talk about a major oops: A "clerical error" resulted in the release of a dangerous felon, and a manhunt is now underway in Los Angeles to find the suspected murderer.