Sarah Parvini

Planning on partying in Hollywood this Halloween? Leave the silly string at home. A long-standing temporary ban on Silly String and other similar, clearly nefarious products went into effect Thursday morning.

It gets rowdy in L.A. on Halloween, and the LAPD isn't under the impression that this year's festivities will be any different. The police department has announced the locations of Thursday night's "saturation" patrols and this weekend's DUI checkpoints.

The Puente Hills landfill is the largest one in the country, towering over the 60 Freeway at a staggering 40-stories. And today, the 630-acre landfill is closing after more than half a century of service.

A former apprentice embalmer accused of taking gold crowns from corpses at a Lancaster funeral home will be arraigned Wednesday on more than two dozen felony counts.

The City of Los Angeles and the LAPD are being sued for shooting a mentally ill woman after her mother requested mental health professionals to help her. Kamesha Davidson was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder when she was a child, long before the shooting.

Illustrator and graphic designer Jeca Martinez has reimagined all the "Harry Potter" book covers as minimalistic animated GIFs, and they're awesome.

This vintage map of L.A. illustrates the county's layout between 1860 and 1937. Take a look and you'll find L.A.'s historic sites, old highways and battlefields.

Two football coaches from San Diego's Junipero Serra High School are under investigation after a picture of them in Halloween costumes with blackface was posted on Facebook.

A transgender woman says she was disrespected at an LA Fitness in Montclair after being barred from using the women's locker room.

The landmark stand known for its combos and plates decorated with a smiling face and the note "just for you" is shutting down, but plans to move to a new spot are in motion.