Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the City Council and business and community leaders launched a month of cultural events honoring African-American history and culture at the city's annual African-American Heritage Month celebration Friday.

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Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas kiss in a scene from the film Basic Instinct, famous for its explicit sex scenes.

The draft maps that will change the boundaries of Los Angeles City Council districts as part of the redistricting process have "inadvertent errors" throughout the city, including the proposal to remove parts of Westchester from City Councilman Bill Rosendahl's 11th District, the chairman of the redistricting commission said Thursday night during ... (more)

Tourists and Southland natives alike were treated to a show starring Catwoman in the leading role Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles.

Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian insists she acted in self-defense when she became embroiled in a scuffle with a woman in Los Angeles in 2009.

Police arrested a man who allegedly shot at detectives as they were investigating homicides in the Harbor area of Los Angeles earlier this week, police said Friday.

With a judge barring video from the trial to overturn Proposition 8 earlier this week, "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has written a new play about the trial, which will star some of Hollywood's biggest names.

A 49-year-old man arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen property when sheriff's deputies saw him wearing a Los Angeles County Fire Department jacket was behind bars today, unable to be released on bail because of an immigration hold.

Law enforcement officers around the county today will begin patrolling to look for drunk drivers in the days leading up to Super Bowl Sunday.