Sharon Knolle

In response to a planned boycott of their upcoming film 'Ender's Game,' Lionsgate has released a statement that says, "we obviously do not agree with the personal views of [author] Orson Scott Card."

A 19-year-old Lancaster man was arrested today in the July 4 kidnapping and assault of an employee of the Westfield Topanga Mall in Canoga Park.

The body of a young Latino man was found Thursday at Polliwog Park in Manhattan Beach.

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A woman who suffered second-degree burns after her e-cigarette battery exploded in her car compared the resulting fire to a blowtorch. Jennifer Ries and her husband, Xavier, of Corona, Calif. are suing the e-cigarette manufacturer VapCigs after its rechargeable battery caught fire.

Chris Brown has bowed to pressure from his unhappy neighbors and painted over the unpopular "art" on his Hollywood Hills house.

There has been so much outcry after a Hawthorne police officer shot and killed a dog that the department has decided to turn the investigation over to an outside agency.

A local film director is organizing the "first-ever nationwide gay blood drive" in hopes that federal regulators will lift a decades-old ban against blood donors who have had male-to-male sex.

'King of Queens' star Leah Remini is reportedly "stepping back" from the Church of Scientology after questioning their excommunication policy.

Choice vintage photos of celebs and their canine companions, including Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.