Nicole Urso Reed

In case you weren't already aware that child sex trafficking is a heinous crime, Los Angeles County law enforcement officials are going to make extra, extra sure that you do by unveiling a multimedia awareness campaign starting Thursday.

Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial kickoff of summer and the start of vacation season. Unfortunately for holiday travelers in Los Angeles County today, the average cost of a gallon of regular self-serve gasoline at $4.299 set a record high for Memorial Day.

Los Angeles celebrates Memorial Day with parades and observances throughout the city today.

Celebrate the recent plastic bag ban in Los Angeles by inviting friends over for a screening of Bag It, a documentary about "regular Colorado guy" Jeb Berrier who makes a simple decision to stop using plastic grocery bags and ends up discovering how plastic everyone's life has become. Plastic appears to be everywhere and used in everything, and Berrier looks at what consumers can do about it.

Last weekend we trekked San Pedro, a port town at the Southern-most tip of Los Angeles. It was the first neighborhood tour in a summer series organized by L.A. Commons, a non-profit group that shines a light on some of the city's lesser-know cultural gems.

A spacecraft produced by a privately-owned Los Angeles-based aerospace company hooked up with the International Space Station today.

Authorities seized more than 2,000 marijuana plants from a warehouse raid in Rancho Dominguez yesterday.

A man was arrested for allegedly shining a laser at a Pasadena police helicopter and injuring the eyes of an officer on board yesterday

A Palmdale woman was arrested for holding her 8-year-old son underwater and allegedly trying to drown him in the pool of an apartment complex yesterday.

If sipping martinis and strolling through the Getty's newly improved Central Garden is too stuffy for your taste, the Angeles National Forest is announcing a reopening for Memorial Day weekend too. About 41,000 acres will be open for hiking, picnicking and camping.