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Rose Queen Vanessa Manjarrez will represent San Gabriel Valley Pride in Sunday's Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade, parade organizers said.

Diane Anderson-Minshall, editor at large of The Advocate and editor in chief of sister publication HIV Plus, has been named an official community honoree of L.A. Pride, Los Angeles's annual LGBT pride celebration, to be held June 7-9 in West Hollywood.

An investigation was underway today into the fatal officer-involved shooting in Pacoima of an apparently suicidal man, authorities said.

Actor Edward Furlong was arrested again on Friday, May 17, after allegedly violating a protective order filed against him by an ex-girlfriend. Furlong is seen here in a police booking photo after his arrest for alleged domestic violence, the arrest which resulted in the protective order, on January 13, in Los Angeles.

Some customers of Riverside Public Utilities, including those in the Highgrove area, don't get to vote on Measure A on June 4 because they're not city residents.

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Police patrol outside a Chopard store in Cannes after a $1m jewellery heist at the Novotel hotel.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, right, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa discuss the dismissal of the LAPD consent decree Thursday, ending federal oversight of the department.

Candice Glover, a 23-year-old singer from St. Helena Island, S.C., was crowned the Season 12 American Idol champion Thursday night.

A new report reveals that Los Angeles leads the nation in dog attacks on mail carriers.

With nearly one in three people in the L.A. electorate claiming Latino heritage, the city election Tuesday could be decided by the brown vote.

This LA Observed video from 2009 has been around long enough to attract 38,000 views.

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.

The quake, which was originally reported with a magnitude of 3.9 but was quickly upgraded, struck at 1 p.m. six miles south of Rancho Palos Verdes and seven miles southwest of San Pedro, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

In other cities, vice president of the Chamber of Commerce would not be considered a flashy gig.

A traffic stop late Tuesday led to the discovery of explosives Wednesday at a Culver City apartment and bomb squad response.

Raphael Sonenshein, the executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at California State Los Angeles, writes at the Jewish Journal about what he sees interesting in the poll the institute recently conducted of likely LA voters.

Competition for apartments and rental homes in this town is fierce. At least according to the online rental marketplace Lovely , which crunched the numbers for L.A. recently.

Cooking octopus can be tricky. But when done right, it's tender, delicious and loaded with health benefits .

LOS ANGELES Has-beens in Hollywood usually stay that way. Yet one writer who died there nearly forgotten 73 years ago had one of the most remarkable posthumous revivals in literary history.