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Singer Britney Spears performs onstage at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards on the Paramount Studios lot on September 7, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

Actress Willow Smith arrives at the Premiere Of Paramount Pictures & Nickelodeon's 'Imagine That' at Paramount Theater on the Paramount Studios lot on June 6, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

In the top-floor ballroom of a downtown San Francisco hotel, Steve Slepcevic took the podium to share the story of his success.

A large number of Southland cities are charging high fees for solar panel permits, ignoring a state mandate designed to promote the energy system, according to a survey by the Sierra Club.

SAN ANTONIO HEIGHTS a ' Deputies say a bear with an apparent sweet tooth busted into a San Bernardino County home and gobbled up a box of chocolates from a couple's refrigerator.

Continuing Confusion: Stanley Lampwert, attorney for hopeful Naples conqueror Matt Osgood, pleads his case at the Board of Supes this week.

Fall Out Boy arrive at the Hennessy Artistry Presents Fall Out Boy and Pharrell Williams at Paramount Studios on October 10, 2007 in Los Angeles, California.

The Southeast Area Animal Control and Authority are deep into the "cat days of summer." Warm days mean breeding season for cats, officials said, and that means the shelter is bursting at the seams.

Nearly three dozen alleged LB gang members on parole and probation were taken back into custody for alleged violations in a crackdown by LBPD and other law enforcement agencies.

18, 2008, in California. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have chosen to accept another impossible mission.

Police say 35 arrests were made during a gang sweep triggered by a spike in gang-related violence in the Long Beach area.

A comprehensive dictionary offers a number of definitions of "drill," one being a device for making holes in something, and another being a rehearsed exercise.

"Imagine That" director Karey Kirkpatrick had a little more input on the movie's soundtrack than many directors might: He produced nine of the album's 11 tracks and performs on another.

Part II of "14 Years with the Gypsies." Yesterday: "Kay," a college student, has her first reading by a member of a clan of Southern California fortunetellers.

Club Nokia played host to a first ever "Fight Night Club", a boxing show dedicated to developing young fighters.

Mickey Rourke's bruising opponents in "The Wrestler" don't look so tough compared to his new foe: Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man.

Ricardo Chavez, a 19-year-old Latino, was shot several times in the 15100 block of Gundry Avenue in Paramount on Sunday, May 31, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office.

The International Sony, $28.96; Blu-ray, $39.95 In "The International," Clive Owen and Naomi Watts play upright lawmen -- he for Interpol, she for the Manhattan DA's office -- who work together to bring down a bank involved with money-laundering for terrorists and despots.

A Los Angeles gang member was sentenced to 30 years in prison today for a series of crimes - including threatening an Orange County Superior Court judge with a gun, prosecutors said.

A parade of puppets managed to string along Los Angeles City Council members long enough Wednesday to persuade them to designate a West 1st Street marionette theater as a historic-cultural landmark.