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Officials cross fingers for Lindsay Lohan's jail stint

Lindsay Lohan is due to surrender today to a Beverly Hills, Calif., judge to begin her 90-day sentence in a Lynwood jail, but it remains unclear exactly how much time the actress will spend behind bars. The L.A. Sheriff's Department has not said exactly how long they plan to incarcerate Lohan, but authorities have said it could amount to only 25 percent of her sentence. Some speculate… 0

July 20, 2010

TV, internet can't get enough of 'Octomom'

The octo-spectacle just won't go away. And instead of running from the limelight, "Octomom" Nadya Suleman and her cast of characters have thrust themselves head-on into the circling, hungry maw of the 24/7 TV-cable-radio-internet-Twitter news cycle. 3

March 3, 2009

Los Angeles

Guitarist ends flight on downbeat

Chris Llewellyn was staring out the window of Delta Airlines Flight 110, watching the landscape of Los Angeles rise up toward the plane, when he heard the screams of a flight attendant: "Help me! Help me!" Turning quickly, he saw that a passenger had pushed the attendant to the floor and was trying to open the rear exit. "Don't come near me," the man warned. "I have a bomb. I have… 0

January 9, 2009

California

Wind eases; focus shifts to arson

In the fourth day of Southern California's massive battle with wildfires, officials welcomed better weather and shifted their attention to arson investigations and still-threatening blazes in Orange and San Diego counties. One man, who police said was acting suspiciously in brush near California State University, San Bernardino, was shot and killed. Another was arrested after allegedly… 0

October 25, 2007

California

Hilton ordered back to county jail

Paris Hilton yesterday was ordered to return to her solitary cell, a day after she had been sent home to house arrest and became the center of a storm of protest that she was being treated better than someone less famous. Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer made his ruling after a hearing that followed a tumultuous sequence in which Hilton was brought to court in a sheriff's patrol… 0

June 9, 2007

California

OSHA investigates death at the circus

Authorities investigating how a circus performer fell to his death during a performance Monday in front of thousands of spectators are focusing on the integrity of the equipment. The fall took place about 6:30 p.m. under the big top of the traveling circus that was set up in South El Monte, east of downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County coroner's office identified the dead… 0

May 2, 2007

California

Hospital dumping alleged

California officials yesterday announced new legislation making it a crime to dump hospital patients on the streets, part of a push by authorities who are investigating 55 cases of alleged dumping on L.A.'s Skid Row. The move comes after a string of homeless dumping cases in downtown Los Angeles - including one involving a paraplegic man wearing a colostomy bag who was left on Skid… 0

February 23, 2007

Los Angeles

Feds say private eye turned bad

Federal prosecutors alleged last week that Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano recently conspired with known mobsters in Chicago to put a prison "hit" on the man he allegedly hired to threaten a Los Angeles Times reporter. The hit, according to court papers, was allegedly aimed at Alexander Proctor, an ex-convict who was arrested for placing a dead fish with a rose in its mouth… 0

May 14, 2006

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