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The body of Joe Bodalai, who co-wrote the script for the first "Wayne's World" movie, was discovered at a Los Angeles hotel on Monday.

Critics see Rudolf Montiel's departure pay as a symbol of misplaced priorities and poor management at the agency.

Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia stormed Occupy Wall Street encampments in both cities, demanding protestors leave demonstration sites that had become two of the movement's largest after evictions upended others across the country.

Serious crimes more than doubled in the area around Occupy Los Angeles during the first 45 days since the protesters began their encampment, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.

Los Angeles must be the smartest place in the country. Because we're certainly its medical marijuana dispensary capital. And a new study out of the U.K. indicates that people who start out life with high IQs tend to end up experimenting with drugs, marijuana chief among them.

A Los Angeles County Jail spokesperson has confirmed with CBS News' "The Early Show" that Conrad Murray was not placed on suicide watch hours after being convicted in Michael Jackson's death.

Dr. Conrad Murray was placed on suicide watch at the L.A. County Jail on Monday, hours after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death and being taken into custody.

Good news virtual gangsters: Rockstar Games has officially revealed via its website that the next installment in its famed "Grand Theft Auto" franchise is underway. Rockstar has yet to unveil any information about "Grand Theft Auto V" — only that it will be releasing a trailer for the game on Nov. 2. However, game site Kotaku reports that "a source familiar with the game" told them it will take place in some version of Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles city attorney's office will decide whether to bring charges against a man who packed a loaded gun in his checked luggage en route from Los Angeles to Portland on Sunday, officials said.

With water increasingly scarce in the West, a new program is allowing some farmers to sell their allotment of it for whatever price they can find, but it comes with a hitch... They can continue to farm all their land, or they can stop farming some of it and earn more than $500 an acre — more than the market value of a crop like alfalfa in a given year — simply by not using the water required to nourish those crops. Water saved is sent on to thirsty cities and suburbs to the west: San Diego, Los Angeles and Palm Springs.