U2's The Edge's epic 12-year battle to build a development of six homes in the hills above Malibu may finally have ended in failure, unless he and his partners want to start the process all over again before a different government agency.

Nearly four decades after his wife Natalie Wood drowned, investigators are now calling actor Robert Wagner a "person of interest" in her death.

Two people avoided serious injury after their car became airborne and crashed into the second floor of a dentist’s office in Los Angeles yesterday.

Hundreds of searchers continued the grueling work today of hunting for survivors and digging up bodies in the sea of mud and wreckage left by flash flooding in this wealthy coastal enclave.

Authorities in California's Santa Barbara County are still trying to reach new areas and dig into the destruction to find dead, injured or trapped people after a powerful mud flow swept away dozens of homes.

Police in Los Angeles have arrested a man they suspect made a hoax emergency call that resulted in a SWAT police officer fatally shooting a man at the door of his own home in Kansas.

Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington has died, the Los Angeles County coroner has said.

Roman Polanski's lawyer has asked a Los Angeles judge to unseal testimony given by a former prosecutor who handled the fugitive director's sexual assault case.

Cult leader and murderer Charles Manson has been taken to a California hospital, according to reports.

Security has been increased at metro stations across Los Angeles after what is being described as a "specific" threat of a terror attack today.

One of the shot officers only recently returned from maternity leave. She was the mother of a four-month-old daughter.

Hollywood actor Jim Carrey is being sued for wrongful death and drug violations, accused by the husband of his late girlfriend of illegally obtaining and giving her the powerful painkillers she used to kill herself in September 2015.

Oscar-winning director Michael Cimino, whose film The Deer Hunter became one of the great triumphs of Hollywood’s 1970s heyday and whose disastrous Heaven’s Gate helped bring that era to a close, has died.

US wrestling star Chyna has died in California at the age of 45.

Prosecutors have alleged a Los Angeles man killed his son for being gay.

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U2 guitarist The Edge has won approval to build five hilltop homes in the California celebrity enclave of Malibu despite opposition from environmentalists who fear it will endanger crucial wildlife corridors for such animals as mountain lions and bobcats, officials said.

Cody Campbell, a Los Angeles County firefighter, married Kelly Yocca in California on Saturday and, just as he was about to toast his new bride, duty called.

Despite a devastating four-year drought that has forced strict water conservation measures across California, most Los Angeles County supervisors have their cars washed two or three times a week, a newspaper reported.

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The Irish Special Olympics team departed for Los Angeles yesterday on a quest for glory at the World Summer Games, which get under way on Saturday.

Oil fortune heir Andrew Getty died from an ulcer-related gastrointestinal haemorrhage at his Los Angeles mansion, but also had a toxic level of methamphetamine in his body, authorities have said.

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Andrew Getty, among the heirs in a family whose name is synonymous with elite American wealth, has been found dead in his Hollywood Hills home of what was most likely natural causes or an accident, authorities and family members said.

A man has been charged with crashing into Jennifer Lopez's car while drunk.

Veteran entertainer Bill Cosby will not be charged after a woman claimed the comedian molested her in the 1970s when she was 15, prosecutors in Los Angeles have said.

A dangerous storm system blamed for two deaths in Oregon and thousands of power outages in Washington state has swept south through California, causing mudslides and evacuations.

A Southern California man accused of killing, skinning and eating his ex-girlfriend’s pet rabbit and saying he would do the same to her has been charged with cruelty to an animal and making criminal threats, prosecutors said.

The wife suspected of shooting and killing the mayor of a US city has been released after hours of questioning.

US girl group singer Simone Battle, a finalist on 'The X Factor' USA in 2011, has died.

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A 20-year-old man died after lightning struck 14 people at a popular Los Angeles beach and a golf course.

A judge has ruled California’s death penalty unconstitutional, saying lengthy and unpredictable delays have resulted in an arbitrary and unfair capital punishment system.

A man who was attacked by a great white shark off a southern California beach has described how quickly a routine swim turned into a nightmare.

Robert Downey Jr. has released a statement following his son's recent arrest for cocaine possession.

A homeless man has been ordered to undergo psychological treatment for stalking Selena Gomez.

A man who pleaded not guilty to breaking into the home of actress Sandra Bullock has been charged with possessing an arsenal of heavy weapons said to have been found at his home.

FOTA Wildlife Park is famous for its cheetahs; hundreds of cubs have been born there.

Troubled former teen star Amanda Bynes has pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving after she clipped a Los Angeles County sheriff’s patrol car.

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Justin Bieber was captured on CCTV in a strip club in Australia. The tape allegedly shows the pop star in ‘compromising positions’ with two strippers.

Baby-faced pop star Justin Bieber has been charged with assault today – the second arrest in a week for the troubled teenager – after turning himself in to police in Canada.

Queen Latifah will perform 'America the Beautiful' at the Super Bowl.

Nearly 2,000 residents were evacuated and two homes burned in a wildfire that started when three people lit a campfire in the dry foothills of Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains, authorities said.

‘Octomom’ Nadya Suleman has been charged with welfare fraud.

There are conflicting reports that Charlie Sheen's manager and lawyer have quit, while others say they were fired.