A dozen homeless or formerly homeless performers took part in Skid Row's first talent show, where 26-year-old Deoujahne Darc won first prize for “Grace & Mercy.”

A man on a bike died near the Rosecrans onramp late Thursday, the third SoCal cycling death in three days.

More than 2,000 people and their dogs attended last year for pie-eating pups and adoptions. Saturday's 9th annual bash was scheduled to return.

Cyclists on the new Vanalden-to-Balboa path will push a button and cross traffic instead of riding under it.

Two San Diego County children under 5 are among 13 sickened by Graziers cheese, with three cases causing kidney failure.

Wildlife officers found headless deer stuffed in trash bags after tracking spotlight-wielding poachers in Angeles National Forest.

An energy drink priced at $1 rang up for $3.49 at a North Hollywood 7-Eleven, part of a pattern hitting LA County stores.

Robert Hoffman, who first visited Vroman's at age five, takes over the 132-year-old Pasadena bookstore and Book Soup in West Hollywood.

Parents told the SMMUSD board that kids watched Angry Birds instead of recess, and one parent called for a broader tech policy.

A stabbing report in Stanton triggered a chase that ended with a crash and an arrest miles away in Anaheim.

The two-building Shoemaker Avenue campus is fully leased to beverage giant Breakthru for nine more years.

A parking-lot fender bender near Whittier and Paramount boulevards escalated into a driver being hit and almost run over; deputies took no report, and neither driver wanted to press charges.

A driver fled south on Carpenter Avenue after the Ventura Boulevard crash, and the motorcyclist has not yet been identified.