MAC and Bistro Award winner Lee Lessack will debut his latest concert act, Chanteur, in Los Angeles before bringing the show to London and Paris. read more..

Quick is the NHL leader with 37 victories this season. He returned to Los Angeles on Thursday, and he’s likely to miss the Kings’ game against the Dallas Stars on Friday night. read more..

Although Kobe Bryant is among the best clutch players in the NBA, the superstar has been unable to carry the Los Angeles Lakers to victories recently. Bryant and the Lakers look to avoid their first four-game losing streak in three seasons when they read more..

Bryant and the Lakers look to avoid their first four-game losing streak in four seasons when they face the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night. Bryant is among the league leaders with 27.7 points per game and averaged 33.3 in the last three contests read more..

Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy praised his team for its physical play in a hard-fought win over the defending NBA champions. Now he wants to see his players compete like that each time out - not just in games against the league’s premier teams read more..

NEW YORK—The Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc. said Monday that its 2013 conference and exhibition will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The April 21-25, 2013, event in Los Angeles will be the New York-based association’s 51st read more..

LOS ANGELES — Actor-director Sean Penn was charged Friday with battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation with a photographer in Brentwood last fall. read more..

LOS ANGELES - Too predictable. That’s the persistent complaint about the Academy Awards, whose drama generally is sapped by a glut of earlier award shows that spell out what films will win at the Oscars before the show starts. Not this time — at read more..

I’m not surprised that the Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Charlotte Bobcats on Friday night, because the Lakers have made a habit of Struggling against Charlotte, but the manner in which they were beaten was revealing. The Bobcats seemed to be the defending champions, and the Lakers the expansion read more..

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood is in full-on Oscar mode. The red carpet has been laid out in front of the Kodak Theatre, topped with a plastic sheet in case of rain. Traffic is snarled. read more..

A standing-room-only crowd helped cheer on the latest graduates from ROCK ‘N’ ROLL FANTASY CAMP, held this past week in Los Angeles, with a star-studded show at the Key Club Sunday night (2/28). Rock luminaries like Bret Michaels (Poison), Ace Frehley (KISS), Michael Anthony (Van Halen, Chickenfoot) and Matt Sorum (Guns ‘n Roses, Velvet Revolver), plus 20 other rock stars helped mentor more than … read more..

The City of Los Angeles, Grand Prize Winner of the AFP Pinnacle Grand Prize, will present a check to Angel’s Flight for runaway and homeless youth, an organization run by Catholic Charities of Los Angeles. Â Wells Fargo Bank sponsored the recent Pinnacle Award program, generously donating $10,000 to the charity. read more..

English actor Paul Bettany has blasted British people living in Los Angeles, admitting he avoided them when he lived there. read more..

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is kicking off Academy Awards weekend with a pre-Oscar bash at Getty House, the mayor’s official Los Angeles residence. read more..

Ms Teriault-Odom should have been put to death. How gruesome can anyone be? LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for dousing a bikini dancer with gasoline and setting her on fire at a club called “Babes & Beer.” read more..

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles is escalating the war against gigantic billboards. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has obtained arrest warrants for four people, days after he jailed a man on $1 million bail for allegedly putting up an eight-story supergraphic ad without a permit. read more..

CLINTON, Tenn., March 4 (UPI) — Remotec and partner Autonomous Solutions announced the delivery of a next-generation explosive ordnance disposal robot to the Los Angeles Police Department. read more..