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California lawmakers will get a pay raise of nearly $5,000 this year while the governor will see an increase of nearly $9,000 after a citizens' panel voted Wednesday to restore some of the cuts it made during the recession.

A 69-year-old registered sex offender was arrested for allegedly following and videotaping young girls in Los Angeles County.

Authorities have arrested a 65-year-old man who lived the last three years in an Idaho resort town on charges he helped steal millions of dollars from a Los Angeles physician.

Dixon's time is running out, and although he has become a favorite of the volunteers at the Los Angeles County Downey Animal Care Center , space is very limited, and no one yet has stepped up to offer this lover boy a home.

Trial was underway Wednesday for a Whittier man accused of the fatal stabbing of a West Covina man outside a Halloween party in 2011, officials said.

Hollywood heavyweights are at war with a bike lane, though the movie industry isn't anti-cyclist, only at the color the path has been painted.

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: for general audiences; parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; no one younger than 17 ... (more)

US actor Edward Furlong, whose credits range from "Terminator 2" to 2011 hit "The Green Hornet," was charged Tuesday with assaulting his girlfriend, prosecutors said.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has agreed to pay a $550,000 settlement to a couple who alleged that sheriff's deputies falsely arrested and framed them on drug charges.

The prosecutor in a potential arson felony trial involving the deaths of two Pasadena men expressed her frustration that the case's preliminary hearing will be extended after the expected final statements were presented Tuesday in Pasadena Superior Court.

A contract psychologist is recovering from injuries she suffered in an attack by an inmate at the state prison in Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles police interviewed pop singer Justin Bieber for a possible hit-and-run outside of the Laugh Factory in Hollywood on Monday night.

A Southern California developer is under investigation for allegedly tapping his firm's attorneys and using his daughters to launder illegal campaign contributions to Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez.

A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning and his body was found in the driveway of a construction company, officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.

Thirteen people were injured, three critically, in a nine-vehicle chain reaction pileup on the northbound Antelope Valley Freeway caused by a 54-year-old motorist who drove his truck head-on into another pickup while under the influence of drugs, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Walter Lee Williams, 64, became the 500th person named to the list, officials said.

KFC at MOCA: This building by Grinstein/Daniels Architects will be in the show, and so will Frank Gehry This is the fifth installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, tracking modern architecture happenings all over the city during the Getty's big initiative.

On Friday, Mayor Bob Henderson sent a letter to the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court urging him to begin the process re-opening the courthouse.

DOWNEY >> A rift between firefighters and city leaders has reached the point where voters here will have to decide whether the city should have its own fire department or merge its fire service with Los Angeles County's department.

Former Chicago Ald. Ambrosio Medrano is likely headed back to federal prison after a jury found him guilty Monday of conspiring to pay a bribe.