Nicole Urso Reed

He is smarter than your average bear and obviously trying to upstage the other attention-seeking black bears in recent weeks like the Monrovia Bear who took a dip in the family swimming pool and the famous Glen Bearian who has his own Twitter account.

The Corner Door, Culver City's latest restaurant and bar, located next to A-Frame and Waterloo & City on Washington Blvd. opens this Friday.

Someone sabotaged the feral cat traps that were set up yesterday at an Orange County school by health officials who are trying to isolate the source of typhus, a flea-born bacterial infection.

A man was finally reunited with his beloved pet iguana of 17 years named "Lizard" after someone stole him last December.

Authorities are trying to understand why a student at Hemet High School drove through an intersection filled with classmates leaving campus after school on Wednesday.

Most California voters do not want to legalize the use of recreational pot, according to a new survey.

A capsule built by L.A.-based SpaceX, the first privately-funded company to partner with NASA and transport cargo to the Space Station, returned safely from its historic mission to Earth today.

Punk rock legends Rancid, The Rev. Horton Heat and Bouncing Souls are a few of the bands to perform at The Hootenanny annual music festival and classic car show July 7 at Oak Canyon Ranch.

UCLA awarded Justin Combs, son of hip hop mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs who's reportedly worth nearly a half billion dollars, a full athletic scholarship to play football for the Bruins this fall.

No one's quite sure how a porn filmmaker scored access to shoot "The Gangbang Girl #32" on the turf of L.A.'s Memorial Coliseum, but the L.A. Times learned that the stadium's distinctive tunnel, the towering field lights and red and white seats set the scene for 40 minutes of hardcore group porn.