Before his midlife career as a novelist and celebrity murder-trial correspondent for Vanity Fair, Dominick Dunne was a Hollywood TV and movie producer. He regularly
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A common refrain in City Hall used to justify eye-popping Los Angeles City Council salaries of $178,789 is that the number of residents living inside the boundari
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When the dominatrix was a little girl, she was constantly locking people in cupboards. In the bathtub with her brother, she would instruct her sibling to close his e
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The announcement of a huge prehistoric ossuary discovered near La Brea Tar Pits is one of those stories that delights through a balance of incongruous details. The f
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According to the L.A. Times, police have charged only one of two bar patrons arrested in connection with an incendiary attack against a 27-year-old bikini dancer. Ri
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In line at the bank last Saturday morning, I overhear a man explain to the teller that he has no identification because his wallet got jacked.” He points to a mana
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Police Chief Bill Bratton, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and City Councilman Eric Garcetti, along with dozens of police officers, undercover agents and city workers
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My contact tells me to dress sexy” for my date at the Edison with three Anons, affiliates of the troublemaking Web vigilantes Anonymous. Ordinarily I’d ignore su
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Toward the end of December, my wife and I went to the calendar kiosk in the mall. (You know the one; it's between the Crocs kiosk and the cell phone kiosk. No, n
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It’s a completely meaningless awards show by a scandal-riddled organization on a network desperate for any kind of ratings. Yet there I was live-snarking the Golde
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Attorneys have leveled sensational charges against the operators of the Metrolink train that crashed in Chatsworth killing 25 people last September. At a packed news
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Note: Due to a technical error, the full version of this story including the official responses below from Deputy Mayor Matt Szabo, were not included in the January
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