Construction halted on Los Angeles Zoo elephant exhibit (Los Angeles Times) The City Council stops work on the partially built Pachyderm Forest but does not kill the project outright. The meeting is packed with supporters and opponents of the exhibit. After weeks of impassioned and lengthy debates over elephants and whether the world's largest land mammals still belong in the Los Angeles Zoo, supporters and critics alike got only a tentative verdict Wednesday: The ...

Los Angeles woman held in hit and run (Los Angeles Times) Maria Del Carmen was arrested on suspicion of injuring a 7-year-old boy in South Los Angeles on Monday night and leaving the scene. Detectives today arrested a driver suspected of seriously injuring a 7-year-old boy Monday night in South Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County report says woman who died at troubled hospital could have been saved (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) LOS ANGELES - A homeless woman who died after writhing in pain on a hospital floor for nearly an hour could have survived if she had received proper treatment, a county report concedes.

Half a world away, Los Angeles mourns (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles) Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin speaks at a memorial service in Westwood. Photo by Brad Greenberg Peggi Sturm, executive director of the Los Angeles congregation B'nai Horin, had traveled to India for two weeks of spiritual meditation.

01:26 (BST), 04/12/2008 Gene Simmons AXE Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS For Immediate Release (Los Angeles, CA ... (gamesindustry.biz) (Los Angeles, CA – December 3, 2008) – On the heels of his first foray into videogame controllers based on his axe-shaped bass guitar, Gene Simmons has a lot to say about it.

Polanski asks Los Angeles to drop statutory rape charges (AFP via Yahoo! News) Polish-French director Roman Polanski on Tuesday filed a request through his Los Angeles lawyer asking that prosecutors drop statutory rape charges filed against him in 1978 for having sex with a minor, court sources said.

Polanski asks Los Angeles to drop statuatory rape charges (AFP via Yahoo! News) Polish-French director Roman Polanski has filed a request through his Los Angeles lawyer asking that prosecutors drop statuatory rape charges filed against him in 1978 for having sex with a minor, according to court sources.

Trial to decide fate of Oscar won by silent film star Mary Pickford opens in Los Angeles (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) LOS ANGELES - Opening statements have begun in a trial that will decide the fate of an Oscar won by silent film star Mary Pickford. Jurors will decide whether to allow the sale of a statuette won by Pickford for 1929's "Coquette."

Los Angeles City Council delays decision on scrapping new, $42 million elephant exhibit (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) LOS ANGELES - Kids can keep visiting Billy the elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo — for now. The City Council on Wednesday delayed a controversial decision on whether to shut down the current elephant exhibit and a new $42 million exhibit being built to house pachyderms.

FBI visits Tony Alamo compound outside Los Angeles (KSLA-TV Shreveport) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Child welfare officials in California say they accompanied FBI agents to a Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound just outside of Los Angeles this morning.