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Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night and was "semi-conscious, barely," according to a caller on a 911 recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials....

The man whose head, hands and feet were found this week along a hiking trail near the Hollywood sign used to hike in Griffith Park.

An investigation unfolding near the iconic Hollywood sign in Los Angeles is playing out like a gory movie script, as police worked to identity a man whose body was found in parts over the past two days - first a head on Tuesday, then two hands and two feet on Wednesday....

One day after two dogs uncovered a human head hidden in a plastic bag, Los Angeles police found a severed hand Wednesday morning at the Hollywood Hills crime scene. The head was first discovered at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Bronson Canyon Park near a trail below the "Hollywood" sign by two people walking nine dogs.

A Los Angeles bishop has resigned after revealing he is the father of two teenage children, the Vatican announced Wednesday. Gabino Zavala, the auxiliary bishop for the San Gabriel pastoral region, informed his superiors in December that he had fathered two children, who are living out of state with their mother, according to the Catholic News Service.

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.