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A Calabasas man pleaded not guilty today to a murder charge stemming from the shooting death of a popular El Camino Real High School student and soccer goalie.

Get out your box, skip the generally over-priced dinner and do something different this Valentine's weekend.

Three pieces of physical evidenceA - a bite mark, a bullet and a gun barrelA - and the motive of a "broken heart" will prove that a former Los Angeles police detective murdered the woman her ex-boyfriend had recently married, a prosecutor told jurors Monday.

Just around the corner from the King Taco outpost on Pico Boulevard sits El Taurino , an expansive corner taqueria that shares more than just a heritage with its nearby neighbor.

Actors are constantly worrying about what is going on in the mind of the director at the auditionthey shouldn't. There are certain aspects of the audition process that actors control and certain aspects that they can't control.

Canadian film director Brad Peyton is shown in Toronto on Monday, January 30, 2012.

The rock band America - honored for such iconic hits asA Horse With No Name,A Ventura Highway ,A Sister Golden Hair andA Tin Man - A received the 2,459th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday.

Diana Ross has never won a Grammy, with or without the Supremes, which is probably why the Recording Academy is redressing that wrong this Sunday, honoring her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

More than 100 early education centers across Los Angeles could close due to budget cuts, say protesters who picketed LA Unified School District headquarters on Monday morning.

Los Angeles police on Monday were looking for leads in the killing of a man who was shot after an argument in Sun Valley.

The suspect was apprehended about an hour ago, according to LAPD Sgt. Anthony Vasquez.

Backers of gay marriage are eagerly anticipating an appeals court ruling Tuesday on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex nuptials in California.

Performer John Carroll discusses being bullied as a teenager for being considered effeminate and being one of the first gay couples to marry in New York, during an interview after being named Broadway Hero of the Month by website HIVHero.org . Carroll, who grew up just outside of New York City in Long Island, recalls being bullied so much that he ... (more)

His companion Lorna Raver tells the Los Angeles Times that Rasovsky died of esophageal cancer on Jan.

"When she said Dwight just died, I thought I was going through the floor," Myers told Flair in an exclusive interview last Friday at friends Percy and Murine Clarke's home, in the quiet Coral Gardens community in Montego Bay.

The perverse tale of blind obedience to authority first unfolded eight years ago in a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Washington, Ky., just south of Louisville, when an 18-year-old employee was subjected to a humiliating strip search orchestrated by a prank caller pretending to be a cop.

Opening statements could begin as early as Monday in the case against a veteran Los Angeles police officer accused in the slaying of her ex-lover's wife more than 25 years ago.

Panorama City A 20-something man shot twice in a gang-related attack in Panorama City was hospitalized today.

A man who was apparently homeless was found stabbed to death Saturday evening in a San Fernando Valley storm drainage channel, police said Sunday.

It was one of those cases that seemed straight out of pulp fiction, a noir mystery written by one of those hard-boiled scribes who liked to surround damsels in distress with mobsters and movie stars.