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After months of cold and rain, a brief wave of heat is coming to Southern California. Forecasters say the L.A. area will have highs in the 80s Wednesday and possibly the low 90s on Thursday.

The greatest unsolved murders in Los Angeles' history — bloodier than the Black Dahlia, more coldly vicious than the hit on Bugsy Siegel — occurred on a cool fall night in 1871.

Two masked thieves who bored into a downtown Los Angeles jewelry store through a tunnel and made off with an estimated $3 million in jewelry appeared to have some knowledge about the layout of the store, sources told The Times.

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was taken by ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday morning, the spokesman for her husband said.

A man crossing a busy Los Angeles-area boulevard was twice struck by hit-and-run drivers, a woman who tried to help him was hit by yet another car, and the driver who tried to help her was beaten and robbed by a mob ...

Tennis star Pete Sampras says most of his trophies and other memorabilia were stolen from a West Los Angeles public storage facility.

Prices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, which had been increasing, both fell in August from July. Home prices are falling faster in the nation's largest cities, and a record number of foreclosures are expected to push prices down further through next year.

A young boy fell to his death from a luxury suite at Los Angeles' Staples Center on Sunday night, according to a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.

Well-known Hollywood publicist Ronni Sue Chasen was shot to death Tuesday in her Mercedes-Benz near Sunset Boulevard, authorities said. Chasen, 64, of Los Angeles was the publicist for movies such as "Driving Miss Daisy" and "On Golden Pond."

A person believed to be Zsa Zsa Gabor has been taken by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics from the celebrity's Bel-Air estate to a hospital.