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Former boxing champ Mike Tyson was detained by police at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday afternoon while they investigated a possible battery, authorities said.

Someone stabbed a 45-year-old plastic surgeon to death, then set fire to his French Quarter home early Saturday.

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to outsource its e-mail system to Google Inc, a making it the largest city in the nation to have made such a move. Welcome to the cloud.

Yessica Maher of Los Angeles, California, feels let down. She had wanted to get the H1N1 vaccine for herself and her children, but that's proving to be difficult.

Jackknifed big-rigs and spun-out vehicles littered freeways in the Los Angeles area as hubcap-deep pools caused by overwhelmed storm drains kept travel lanes impassable. The National Weather Service canceled its flash flood advisory for ...

Michael Jackson is still playing to sellout crowds. Advance screenings to the music documentary "Michael Jackson: This Is It" sold out within two hours early Sunday as fans who began lining up three days earlier snapped up all 3,000 tickets to the Los Angeles shows.

Conan O'Brien hit his head during a stunt for the "Tonight Show," an accident that halted production and brought back memories of a rare absence by his predecessor in the job....

A notorious street gang accused of terrorizing a neighborhood for years and killing a sheriff's deputy was the target of a raid by hundreds of law enforcement officials Tuesday.

The Los Angeles County coroner said Friday in a statement that Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide primarily caused by two drugs.

Thousands of residents were evacuated from million-dollar homes in exclusive Los Angeles communities as four wildfires burned on Friday in the mountains and coastal areas around the city.