Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of a sexually explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman's downfall, died of heart failure, the Los Angeles County Coroner said in an autopsy report released Friday.

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Coroner: Breitbart died of heart failure

LOS ANGELES Shawn Nee, 35, works in television but hopes to publish a book of photographs. Shane Quentin, 31, repairs bicycles but enjoys photographing industrial scenes at night. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department probably wishes that both would find other hobbies. Herewith a story of today’s inevitable friction between people exercising, and others protecting, freedom. Read full article > >

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The rapper The Game apologized Wednesday for how his Twitter account posted the phone number of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s station, prompting hundreds of his followers to overwhelm deputies and dispatchers with calls.

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Rapper sorry for ‘telephone flash mob’

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives are considering misdemeanor charges against rapper The Game for allegedly tweeting the phone number of a sheriff’s station and prompting hundreds of his followers to flood dispatchers and deputies with phone calls, a spokesman said.

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Sheriff: Rapper’s tweet choked phones

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed four felony charges against a man suspected of making an explosive device that damaged a synagogue and a nearby house.

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LA County prosecutors file 4 felony charges against suspect in blast at Santa Monica synagogue

Los Angeles County will remain under a high wind advisory until noon Thursday as southern California faces its wettest December in history, forecasters said.

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100 vehicles pile up in ND storm

The Los Angeles County district attorney filed a misdemeanor drug possession charge against “Tiny” Tameka Cottle, the wife of rapper T.I., Friday.

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T.I. wife charged with drug possession

Los Angeles County will vote on Tuesday about whether its flock of 9,500 food trucks and carts should be held to the same health department rules as restaurants.

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Inspectors in Rearview as Food Trucks Rule Road

Sally Menke, the editor of director Quentin Tarantino’s films, was found dead along a Los Angeles hiking trail early Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s spokeswoman.

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Quentin Tarantino’s editor found dead