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Actress Heather Locklear has pleaded no contest to eight misdemeanor counts, including battery on a peace officer and resisting arrest, the district attorney said Monday.

Residents of the Coachella Valley may detect an odor like rotten eggs on Monday as elevated levels of gases blow in from the Salton Sea.

A jogger gave a homeless man the shoes off his feet in Lower Manhattan on Sunday.

According to a new study, parents are happier than non-parents as they reach old age, but only if their children have grown up and moved out.

Jim Hardy, the oldest living University of Southern California and Los Angeles Rams football player who was the MVP of the 1945 Rose Bowl, has died. He was 96.

There was a large police presence in an Arleta neighborhood Monday evening where an officer-involved shooting occurred.

A bright pink house with emojis plastered on it in a swanky stretch of Manhattan Beach, blocks from the sand, has neighbors rolling their eyes and insisting a more dastardly motive behind the blush.Photo Credit: CharNese Turner

Its a summer-songful wind-down of the freest proportions. Plus: LA Food & Wine Fest, Verve Coffee flagship, FIDMs free TV costume exhibit, Paley Center throwback costumesPhoto Credit: Twilight on the Pier

A former Los Angeles County Sheriffs deputy reinstated by Sheriff Alex Villanueva was ordered by a judge Monday to surrender his badge, uniform, and gun, and not to, hold himself out as a Los Angeles...Photo Credit: NBCLA

A public memorial service is scheduled in Riverside tomorrow for the California Highway Patrol officer gunned down by a convicted felon during a traffic stop that turned into a gun battle, leaving two other officers wounded and the gunman dead. Officer Andre Moye Jr., 34, of Moreno Valley, will be honored by colleagues, friends and family during a 90-minute service set to begin at 10 a.m. at Harvest Christian Fellowship. Moyes coworkers from the CHP Riverside Area Office, many of his fellow officers from the agencys Inland Division and a large number of other law enforcement officials from throughout the region and state are expected to attend the service, which will be followed by a private burial, according to the CHP. Temporary street closures will be in effect in the vicinity of the church to accommodate the funeral procession. Pastor Jeff Lasseigne will preside over the service, which will be livestreamed via Harvest and the CHP. Harvest was the same location in April where

AILSA CHANG, HOST: WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers, has a new app now for kids. Its called Kurbo. The app asks kids to track what they eat and sorts food into good and bad categories without mention of calorie counts. Some experts say this approach could have serious health consequences, including development of eating disorders. At the same time, though, child obesity is on the rise and can lead to medical problems such as high blood pressure and diabetes. Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford specializes in obesity medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She joins us now. Welcome. FATIMA CODY STANFORD: Thank you. Thank you for having me. CHANG: So I understand the Kurbo app uses something called the traffic light system. What is that CODY STANFORD: So the traffic light system seeks to categorize foods within different categories, meaning green would be something thats a good, high diet quality. Yellow would be something that you might be a bit cautious about and wouldnt want to be,

Nearly two decades into the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. suddenly appears to be nearing an agreement with the Taliban that could bring the remaining 14,000 U.S. troops home. Thats causing unease inside the Afghan government, which has been left on the sidelines as the U.S. and the Taliban have held multiple rounds of talks this year in the Gulf nation of Qatar. The latest round wrapped up last week without a deal, but with signs of progress. The Afghan government says its prepared to negotiate with the Taliban but the Taliban are refusing to reciprocate, calling the Afghan government an American puppet. Roya Rahmani, Afghanistans ambassador to the U.S., said that while she supports efforts toward peace, peace negotiations would start when the Taliban are able and ready to face the Afghan people, the people they are fighting, and their legitimate elected government. The Taliban seized power in her homeland in the 1990s, when she was a teenager. She spent most of those years as a

L.A. trio Kevinmuch like L.A. trio Susanis a band with the name of a person and a lot of personality, too, and their new video Bike is an blown-out visual acid-bath thats a perfect fit for those local summer days when the asphalt starts melting and the sidewalks get too hot to touch. Quincy Larsen Cat Scan, just premiered here, and Sextile, Julian Smith and Kimi Recor wanna be the perfect mix of the Screamers and La Bouche, they say, which is probably one of the last unexplored conceptual combinations out thereand they do have that serrated Screamers synth tone making everything in this song seem especially unsettling.

Photos by Matt Cowan Its been a few years since The Murder City Devils have played in Southern California and they havent skipped a beat. Bringing with them Seattles The Intelligence who started off the show with their angular punk band sound and tunes from

Jess Joys Finally Blooming is a song thats all acrobatics and loop-de-loops, or if you want to use the metaphor from the song itself, its one of those endlessly climbing twisting flowering vines that start from nothing and grow so wild and fast they turn whole buildings into vertical gardens. Joy wrote Blooming to music by drummer/composer Mike Byrnea former Smashing Pumpkin who also backed Sky Saxon of the Seeds, interviewed hereto process tumult personal and political, including both the 2016 election and the dissolution of her band Moon Honey reviewed here, and after plenty of study and introspection she was able to find solid ground and grow. As she explains:

El principal asesor del presidente encabeza la lnea dura del gobierno contra la inmigracin y se ha empeado en controlar l mismo las estrategias en materia migratoria

HOUSTON- La Polica de Houston pide la ayuda de la comunidad para dar con el paradero de un hombre acusado de agredir sexualmente a un menor de edad en el 2017. Segn investigadores, Carlos Flores, de 48 aos, abus sexualmente de un menor en un complejo de apartamentos al noroeste de Houston. Doctor buscaba tener

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The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded $2.2 million to Caltech for additional development on ShakeAlert, an earthquake early warning system.

A Santa Monica-based booking service that offers day passes to high-end hotels raised $8.7 million in a new funding round, according to an Aug. 19 Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Moez Kaba is a co-founder of Hueston Hennigan LLP.

In the latest Homeless Count, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found 1,492 women living in Skid Row, a 3 increase over the previous year. It is part of a situation that has been worsening for several years according

The planned redevelopment of the Southern California Flower Market is a step closer to a reality. The City Planning Commission gave its approval to the project at 714 Maple Ave. on Aug. 8. As part of the redevelopment, an existing

The number of Los Angeles Police Department officers walking the streets of the Central City has increased.

Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary School is thought to be among the first schools named after an immigrant living in the United States illegally.

Edgar Verduzco, 28, was arrested and charged with murder and related offenses in connection with a suspected DUI crash on the 605 Freeway that killed a family of three in 2017.

The Los Angeles Police Department said in a tweet that the shooting occurred near Ottoman Street and Bartee Avenue.

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In todays film news roundup, Tracy Morgan and Michael Rooker book roles in major movies, and Gravitas buys Christmas Break-In. CASTINGS Tracy Morgan has signed on to appear in Eddie Murphys Coming 2 America sequel as the brother of Lesley Jones character. Hustle & Flow helmer Craig Brewer is directing the project with Murphy, Kevin

Netflix is making it easier to keep track of all of its new releases: The company is adding a new Latest section to its TV app that includes both listings of newly released titles, as well as movies and TV show seasons that will be released this week and the week after. Upcoming titles are

Emmy-nominated Orange is the New Black actress Laverne Cox isnt just a fan of Sex and the City, shes a scholar. Cox knows most of the HBO series episodes by heart, and can even list the various Emmys and Golden Globes that the show and its performers received over the years. She admits, however, that