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.

A proposed three-story facility would mix independent living, assisted living and memory care on a foothills site.

A shooting in an alley beside a Florence Avenue McDonald's sent one victim to the hospital in stable condition.

MacFarlane helped finance six new fanfares that will open concerts as LACO moves into its Frank Gehry-designed home.

Thursday is expected to bring increased morning low clouds over coastal sections, with temperatures 2 to 4 degrees lower than Wednesday. Cooling is also expected Saturday and Sunday. Monday, rain is expected south of Los Angeles County, though some rain could still fall locally.

City council votes to pipe treated sewage into tap water within a decade after missing its self-sufficiency target.

The DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures film premiered at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.