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Abdul Arian, a Los Angeles area teenager, was killed in a hail of 90 bullets on the 101 Freeway in a scene that played out on live television.

The raging fire that broke out in a Modesto, CA apartment Thursday belonging to the suspect in the fatal shootings of a deputy and civilian was put out Friday morning.

A 400-pound bear has been wandering the streets of Glendale, Calif., in search of tasty meatballs. But on Tuesday, he was captured and transported to the Angeles National Forest to be released back into the wild.

Nate Dogg will make an appearance at Coachella this weekend despite having passed away at the untimely age of 41 in March 2011. His performance will be made in the form of a hologram alongside West Coast superstars Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Warren G and Daz Dillinger.

Nikki Haley’s book “Can’t Is Not an Option” is out in stores.

A letter sent to Mel Gibson from ex-film collaborator and screenwriter, Joe Eszerthas has hit the web, revealing not only more about Gibson's rage issues, but his continued death threats to ex-girlfriend, and mother of his child, Oksana Grigorieva. According to Kris Herzog, owner of the Navy SEAL Bodyguard Group, The Bodyguard Group of Beverly Hills and former bodyguard for Mel Gibson and Oksana, Gibson has said on numerous occasions that he was going to kill Oksana.

Longtime San Francisco sports radio host Ralph Barbieri, also known as The Razor, was fired by KNBR radio station on Wednesday.

International Business Machines Corp. said it would partner with the U.S. unit of Honda Motor Co. and PG&E Corp. to use the cloud for optimium charging of electric cars.

Reddit announced on Wednesday that the sister of a user named Black_Visions has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against nine Reddit users who egged him on when he threatened his own suicide, and that the site has also been subpoenaed in identifying the information of another three individuals.

It's a not so happy birthday for Disneyland Paris as it celebrates its 20th Anniversary with serious financial woes.

Infamous mass murderer of the 1960s, Charles Manson, 77, is likely to remain behind bars for the rest of his life: The parole board has denied his latest request for release. Manson will not be eligible for parole hearing in 15 years.

The foreclosure activity in the US for the first quarter declined to the lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2007, according to a report by RealtyTrac.

The University of Southern California said two international graduate students were shot and killed in a possible carjacking early Wednesday morning. The two students, a young woman and a young man from China, were identified as Ying Wu and Ming Qu, said the university.

A small band of protesters gathered outside the home of Chevron CEO John Watson on Tuesday following a California report accusing the oil giant of not paying its fair share of taxes.

A Jeremy Lin biography is being circulated around studios in Hollywood. It already has a producer and director and seems to be just a studio shy of getting in motion.

The commission found inmate Manson unsuitable for parole, a spokesman for California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.

Convicted mass murderer Charles Manson is up for parole today after being denied parole 11 times since 1978. Manson was convicted of seven counts of first degree murder, and is currently in Corcoran State Prison serving a life sentence. Manson boycotted his 2012 hearing today, in the past being quoted as saying he is a political prisoner.

American International Group Inc., the beleagued insurance company that was brought to its knees by the subprime mortgage collapse, is re-entering U.S. real estate investment later this year.

UCLA officials are apologizing for telling 894 high school seniors that they were accepted to the highly competitive college, when, in fact, they were still on the wait-list, reported Time Magazine. The mistake happened when the university emailed provisional financial packages to both admitted students and students on the waiting list last Saturday and Sunday. The e-mail included the line: Once again congratulations on your admission to UCLA, we hope that this information will assist you i...

Lamar Odom may be heading back to Los Angeles this off season, but will he join forces with Kobe or Blake?

Jon Lovitz is known for making us laugh, but he's been using Twitter in a serious matter lately, decrying the hate-fueled, honey-drawn swastikas scribbled on his friend's doorstep last week.