Sharon Knolle

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Acclaimed architect Frank Gehry, whose works include the Walt Disney Concert Hall, loves Los Angeles but not necessarily its architecture. He talks about "missed opportunities," including not being the one to design the LACMA building.

A 12-year-old boy got stuck on a ride at Knott's Soak City in Buena Park today and had to be freed by firefighters.

Is Johnny Depp quitting acting? As he tells the BBC, his retirement is "probably not too far away."

A three-day nationwide sex-trafficking sting resulted in arrests of pimps and the rescue of several children forced into prostitution across the country.

Gay bars in West Hollywood are joining the growing boycott of Stolichnaya vodka as part of a protest of the treatment of gays in Russia.

Deputies are looking for the driver who hit a 3-year-old boy and his grandmother Friday night on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and then fled the scene.

A motorcyclist probably would have lost his leg if not for a deputy who applied a tourniquet at the scene of his crash with a limo last week in West Hollywood.

After six months of drought, Los Angeles has now set a record for having the wettest July in 95 years, the National Weather Service announced today.

A ground squirrel in the Angeles National Forest has tested positive for bubonic plague, prompting several campground closures.

It was not a good day on the job for an L.A. County sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a suspected drunk driver who bit him in the arm and tried to take his gun.

A third woman has come forward to accuse San Diego Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment as more people call for his resignation after just eight months in office.