LOS ANGELES

The motion picture academy has confirmed an agreement with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to locate a new museum in a former department store owned by LACMA.

Two more notable players have signed overseas after Kobe Bryant to play basketball during the NBA lockout.

Friendly's Bankruptcy Likely to Dot Northeast with Awkward Reconversions

A disturbing tape of an incoherent, slurring Michael Jackson speaking to his personal physician, Conrad Murray, was played in court during Murray's trial for involuntary manslaughter Wednesday.

Seattle police threatened protesters with arrest if they did not take down the tents they had set up in Westlake Park. The Occupy protests have spread across the country in a matter of weeks.

One prison guard regularly questioned her about her sex life, accompanied her to medical exams

Almost 200 acts survived their first encounters with Simon Cowell on The X Factor, but this week's boot camp episodes of the TV singing contest will sort out the weak from the strong.

An Arizona dust storm triggered several massive traffic pileups that left one dead and several more severely injured.

The Black Eyed Peas will not take part in a Michael Jackson tribute concert being held in the Welsh city of Cardiff at the weekend, organizers said.

Goals from Luke Rodgers and Thierry Henry helped New York Red Bulls beat Los Angeles Galaxy 2-0 and give themselves a fair shout of making the final play-off berth.

No longer seen as young outcasts with no direction or anything better to do than Occupy Wall Street in protest, the movement that began in New York's financial district is gaining momentum with middle America.

California Governor Jerry Brown, saying no to the organized labor groups that helped elect him, vetoed a bill on Tuesday to allow some child-care workers to unionize.

The first two weeks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) season will be canceled if the lockout is not resolved by October 10, league commissioner David Stern said Tuesday.

Michael Jackson's doctor had packages of the powerful anesthetic propofol sent to his girlfriend's home while he was caring for the singer in the spring of 2009, a Los Angeles court heard on Tuesday.

Film, TV and commercial production work shot up 15.4 percent in the third quarter, according to a regular survey conducted by non-profit group FilmL.A.

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill preventing local authorities from banning the practice of male circumcision. The bill, which takes effect immediately, comes in the wake of an effort by a San Francisco group opposed to male circumcision to enforce a city-wide ban of the practice in a November ballot measure.

The Dodgers center fielder had a special year.

Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) will share profits from two of its U.S. coffee shops with non-profit groups in New York City and Los Angeles to help offset expected government funding cuts to programs for children and education.

Day six of Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial gets underway today in Los Angeles, with Dr. Murray's former girlfriends on the list of potential witnesses.

Michael Jackson doctor's trial will hear testimony from additional mistresses Tuesday

FC Barcelona's basketball team has said the Gasol brothers will practice with them during the NBA lockout.