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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.

The San Diego Freeway shooting has gained a person of interest, but the motives for the attacks are still unknown.

Nearly 12,000 California inmates are participating in a hunger strike to call attention to the inhumane treatment of prisoners housed in solitary confinement.

IBTimes spoke with Heather Gautney, a sociology professor at Fordham University, about the significance of the Occupy Wall Street protests and how they might unfold in the coming weeks.

It is official. Hollywood actress Olivia Wilde is now separated from husband Tao Ruspoli. The judgment was finally given on Sept. 29. The 27-year old actress has ended her eight-year long marriage to Ruspoli, an Italian prince.

Sprint Nextel Corp. reportedly buying 30.5 million iPhones from Apple Inc.

Paramount Pictures is closing its New York-based film distribution office, according to a studio insider.

Producer Saul Zaentz has sued distributor Miramax and its former owner, the Walt Disney Co., for $20 million, claiming the defendants hid profits to the Oscar-winning drama The English Patient.

A retired federal judge was appointed mediator on Monday to try to settle the battle for control of the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers that has pitted Major League Baseball against team owner Frank McCourt.

Prosecutors in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor sought to prove Monday that his physician misled hospital doctors on the day of the singer's death, and was busy on his phone around the time the pop star stopped breathing.

Abraham Lopez, 18, a senior at South East high School in South Gate has been charged with the murder of his ex-girl friend Cindy Santana, 17, according to jail records.

The coroner's report on the cause of death of Jeff Conaway, Taxi and Grease star who had been battling with addiction and passed away in May, has been released.

David Lavau, 68, who had been reported missing on Sept. 23, was rescued last Thursday by his three adult children from the bottom of a rugged ravine located at Angeles National Forest, approximately 50 miles north of Los Angeles, authorities have confirmed.

The re-launch of the Winnipeg Jets offers a feel-good story to start the 2011-12 National Hockey League (NHL) campaign and help push back dark clouds that hovered over the hockey world after a grim offseason.

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are free, guilty verdict is overturned