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The Los Angeles city council could vote on a much-anticipated medical marijuana ordinance Wednesday, ending a bottleneck that resulted in hundreds of pot dispensaries cropping up across the city. Full Story »

A prominent attorney died Tuesday after he was shot in the head outside his California home. Jeffrey Tidus was shot Monday around 8:30 p.m. as he was fetching a laptop from his car. His wife heard a single gunshot ring out and rushed outside to find him lying in the driveway behind his blue Toyota Prius, sheriff's homicide Lt. Dave Dolson said. Full Story »

The U.S. Forest Service says fire danger levels in parts of the Angeles National Forest that did not burn this year are being downgraded because of recent rain and snowfall. Full Story »

With 17 of their first 21 games at Staples Center, the Los Angeles Lakers have taken advantage of the heavy dose of homecourt. Full Story »

The Long Beach City Council has approved a proposal to offer $28.6 million in financial incentives to Tesla Motor as the electric carmaker decides where to build its assembly plant. Tuesday's vote intensifies bidding by Long Beach and nearby Downey to bring the plant, and with it hundreds of new jobs, to their cities. Full Story »

The slow crawl into a sea of red lights… bumper-and-bumper and choked into one lane… you can feel the years shaving off of your life as you inch towards your destination. This is L.A. traffic! Do you think you know everything there is to know about L.A. traffic? Full Story »

FBI agents and police officers have arrested a motivational speaker who is suspected of murdering a Las Vegas woman, ransacking her home and fleeing to California. Las Vegas police said Tuesday that they tracked Michael Lane, a British citizen who also goes by the name "Chae Saville," to a motel in Ventura, Calif. and arrested him on Thursday. Full Story »

An Orange County mother has been charged with trying to pay someone to kidnap her 7-year-old son from a foster family so she could flee the country with him. District attorney's officials say Niveen Ismail was charged Tuesday with felony solicitation to commit kidnapping. Full Story »

A 19-year-old man in jail for an unrelated incident was charged Tuesday with fatally shooting a man during a fight in an alley in Covina. Quintin Maddox of San Bernardino was identified as a suspect following a nine-month investigation into the fatal shooting of Ocie Daniel May on March 26. Full Story »

The Los Angeles City Council has approved a motion that caps the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city at 70. Full Story »

The mother and stepfather of a teenager suspected in the murder of another teen in Hemet were released Tuesday without charges being filed. Full Story »

A California man accused of gunning down two police officers 27 years ago has been found guilty of murder for a second time. A Riverside Superior Court jury on Tuesday convicted 71-year-old Jackson Chambers Daniels Jr. of murder and found true the special circumstance that the officers were killed on duty. Full Story »

Injured forward Luke Walton is trading his Los Angeles Lakers jersey for a seat behind the microphone. Walton will fill in for radio color commentator Mychal Thompson when the Lakers play Friday against Minnesota and Saturday at Utah. Thompson will miss those games because of a death in his family, the team said Tuesday. Full Story »

Los Angeles Opera will get a $14 million emergency loan from Los Angeles County, allowing it to keep paying its expenses through the middle of next year. Full Story »

An Orange County grand jury has indicted a man whose decomposed daughter was found in the freezer of his motor home. The district attorney's office says 56-year old Clarence Butterfield was indicted Tuesday on one count of murder during torture and mayhem and one count of assault with a firearm. Full Story »

A child walking to school in Hemet today found the body of a woman transient, who police believe died from exposure to the bitter cold. Full Story »

The Los Angeles school board has approved a budget plan that calls for more than 5,000 job cuts over the next two years. Full Story »

A state program that provides mammogram services to low-income women is temporarily stopping new enrollments, and plans to raise the eligibility age when it restarts seven months later. Full Story »

Academy Award-nominated actress Leslie Caron received the 2,394th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, honoring her work in such MGM musicals as "An American in Paris," "Lili" and "Gigi," and the drama "The L-Shaped Room." Full Story »

Los Angeles fire officials say a man has been found dead in a house that caught fire early Tuesday morning in Eagle Rock. City fire spokesman Erik Scott says firefighters were called to the single-family home on Maywood Avenue shortly before 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and doused the flames in 22 minutes. Full Story »

A handful of pets have been sickened with swine flu in recent weeks, but here are doctors' orders: Wash your hands and don't panic. Full Story »

An accident in Reseda Tuesday left a 4-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy injured, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The collision, which happened at 7:47 a.m., took place in the 7600 block of Corbin Avenue, according to Devin Gales of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Full Story »

The California Highway Patrol has begun escorting thousands of motorists through a section of Interstate 5 that was closed for more than 16 hours by black ice and snow. Full Story »

Bainbridge Island Police Chief Jon Fehlman says he got a bargain on 75 surplus riot helmets from the Los Angeles Police Department. Full Story »

Broadcom Corp.'s co-founder has taken the stand in the fraud trial of the company's former chief financial officer. Full Story »