Matthew Bramlett

A plan allowing murals to be placed on homes in Northeast L.A., Boyle Heights and South L.A. received a 14-1 vote by the City Council today, a hair's breadth away from approval.

A school science project apparently exploded at a Watts charter high school this morning, sending five students to the hospital.

Only two days after the tragic death of Paul Walker, Wu-Tang Clan member RZA has already released a song honoring the late 'Fast and Furious' actor.

Comedian Roseanne Barr took to Twitter last night and launched into a tirade of tweets aimed at television producers who apparently have been giving her the go-around for more than a year as she attempted to develop a show.

Get ready for the traffic headache, Hollywood: the annual Hollywood Christmas Parade will begin at 6:30 this evening. The city has a list of freeways and streets that will be closed during the festivities.

A Los Angeles Times investigation into the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, specifically the hiring of employees in 2010, reveal that over 280 applicants who were hired by the department had questionable histories and allegations of misconduct at other departments.

Important scenes in the upcoming "Fast and Furious" film that involved Paul Walker were scheduled to shoot in Atlanta this coming Tuesday, TMZ has learned

As this year's Black Friday melee becomes more distant in our rear-view mirror, local independent bookstores are in the middle of the first annual "Indies First Day," in which authors across the country volunteer as temporary employees at bookstores across the country.

A man who previously robbed a La Crescenta Rite-Aid committed suicide after barricading himself in an adjacent cell phone store, the L.A. Times reports.

A 36-year-old good Samaritan died this morning after diving in to save two fishermen who were swept away by breakwater on the Cabrillo Beach jetty in San Pedro.

The ugly allegations of rampant drug use against celebrity chef Nigella Lawson have taken another interesting turn: now her ex-husband is denying any evidence of Lawson's drug habit.

The death of a possible transient whose badly burned body was found chained to a fence might have been a suicide, according to authorities.