Nick Young

Former NBA Clipper Nick Young is accused in a lawsuit of drugging and raping a woman after a 2011 encounter at Crown Bar in West Hollywood.

Young, now a Philadelphia 76er, says it wasn't me. He took to Instagram this week to deny the allegations. (And note here that prosecutors have not charged him in the case):

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Model Brittanie Weaver says a perv "picked the wrong girl" when he used an iPad to take upskirt photos of her at a Sherman Oaks pet store in March.

The L.A. City Attorney's office this week might just be on its way to validating that claim. Prosecutors announced that suspect Julio Mario Medal, 38, has been charged in connection with Weaver's allegations:

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You know what we really need more than a man with 16 or so pipe bombs in his Westside apartment? A man with 16 bombs, an explosive device in his car, a gun and meth.

Because we want people with destructive materials to be extremely edgy and violent. We kid, of course, but the allegations against Robert Colt Wilson, 29, are serious and chilling:

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Antonio Villaraigosa

So much for staying neutral. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has said that he would not get involved in the campaign to succeed him, saying he wants to maintain good relations with both Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti.More »

This year's People issue celebrates the 56 Angelenos we find most intriguing. But some of the people in this year's issue aren't just interesting -- they're downright inspiring!

Check out all of our 2013 People Issue profiles

From Dr. Coley King, who's working to treat Venice's homeless community, to Armando Gonzalez, who's keeping at-risk kids out of gangs and on skateboards, we've highlighted the five people who are doing what they can to improve this city. From East L.A. to Venice, they're making L.A. a better place.

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We've been hating on Abercrombie & Fitch for more than a decade now, ever since T-shirts depicting stereotypical Asian characters hit the shelves in 2002. The company appeared to reprise that misstep 10 years later. And then there's its Hollister Co. offshoot, inspired by surfing but really having nothing to do with the sport.

USC grad Greg Karber, 26, found other things to dislike about Abercrombie, and set about vilifying the brand in a social media campaign that just might work:

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The final black cloud over the Los Angeles Police Department has lifted.

A 2001 consent decree that put LAPD under federal oversight following allegations of false arrests, excessive force and unreasonable searches and seizures in the wake of the Rampart scandal is officially over:

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NALEO

With nearly one in three people in the L.A. electorate claiming Latino heritage, the city election Tuesday could be decided by the brown vote.

So says the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), which notes that 29 percent of registered voters in Los Angeles are Latino.

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You've heard of good and bad cholesterol before, right? Fish oil good, Big breakfast with hotcakes bad. Simple enough.

Maybe not. UCLA researchers this week announced that merely breathing some of the air around here could turn your good cholesterol into bad. And that's before you even hit the drive-thru:

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If you thought .08 was a tough blood alcohol limit for driving under the influence, just wait.

There's a movement afoot to lower the threshold to .05, which some of the lighter weights among us could hit in under an hour with just a few drinks under their belts. In fact:

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Ah, Hollywood. Beckoning transplants west like our own little Statue of Liberty. We kind of wish it wouldn't.

See also: Fear and Loathing of Los Angeles: Let Them Keep Hating. We Know Better.

Every day, hundreds (just to go with a nice round number) of hard-working, diverse, interesting people come to Los Angeles and feed our desperately sluggish economy, buying tacos and facial treatments and what have you.

But let's face it. We get a lot of the wrong kind of people moving to Los Angeles, too. We see them every day, clogging our bars, taking our parking spots and hitting on our women. 

If only there were some kind of limit on certain people, like the United States used to have under Warren G. Harding to keep out all the Chinamen.

Here are the six kinds of people City Hall should put a hard quota on -- and by hard quota, we mean zero.

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Updated at the bottom with the suspect's ID and the end of evacuations. First posted at 1:45 p.m.

A traffic stop in Marina del Rey led police to a stash of explosive devices at a suspect's apartment near Culver City today, prompting evacuations and a traffic mess on the Westside.

Overland Avenue between Venice and Washington boulevards was shut down this afternoon and likely would be "for hours" as a bomb squad went through the residence on the Palms side of the street in the 3800 block of Overland, police told us:

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Garcetti for Mayor TV ad

We're already getting a little nostalgic for the L.A. mayor's race, which will be over next Tuesday. Call us crazy, but we think we'll miss the attack ads the most. There's just something compelling about seeing fundamentally decent public servants portray each other as child-killing monsters.
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Among our many fine distinctions -- smog capital, traffic capital, douche capital -- is a new one:

The U.S. Postal Service this week ranked Los Angeles No. 1 among big cities where carriers are attacked by dogs. The USPS released the list of top dog-attack cities, based on the number of incidents, as part of the upcoming National Dog Bite Prevention Week. Grrrr:

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Trutanich mailer

Gov. Jerry Brown has weighed in on the race for L.A. city attorney, recording a robocall attacking incumbent Carmen Trutanich for "misleading voters" on the issue of prison realignment.

Trutanich supported Brown's realignment plan when he ran for district attorney last year. But now that he's running for re-election as city attorney, Trutanich has turned against realignment and is attacking opponent Mike Feuer for supporting it.

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David Blumenkrantz

Clayton Kershaw is as close to deity as anyone in baseball, and he's getting closer with each passing five-day period. He's a god, let's face it. The man walks on dirt.

And I am his groupie. In fact, I've worked it out with The Main Squeeze and it's decided. We're naming our first-born male child Clayton. Actually, we're naming our first born child Clayton, male or female.

Kershaw spun a game for the regular-season ages Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium (which, if played in October we'd be talking about for generations), pitching 8 2/3 innings of shutout ball, scattering five singles, allowing but one free pass while striking out 11. Kenley Jansen came on to blow away Tyler Moore for the save, the Dodgers had their 2-0 victory, and Kershaw will get an extra day of rest after making 132 pitches to get to within one out of a complete game.

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No big surprise here.

As we bid adieu to our May heat wave, new research has "discovered" that minorities tend to live in hotter communities throughout the nation. Why is this no big surprise to us?

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In the annals of bizarre and desperate attempts to videotape women in the most private of moments, this one is a winner.

A man dressed as a woman went into a Macy's restroom with a camera concealed in a paper bag and got to taping, L.A. County Sheriff's Department officials said last night:

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You wish: A Neutra house in Silver Lake via Neil Fitzpatrick / LA Weekly Flickr pool.

Competition for apartments and rental homes in this town is fierce. At least according to the online rental marketplace Lovely, which crunched the numbers for L.A. recently.

It found that a mix of upscale and hipster neighborhoods made up Los Angeles' most-competitive areas for people seeking to rent. The site used the metric of number of days on the market to come up with the five hottest rental communities in L.A:

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See also: Dr. Dre speaks to LA Weekly about the contribution.

Must be nice to have so much cash that you can pair up with a buddy and donate $70 million to a private, rich kids' school like USC.

Of course, the headphone-endorsement business has been good to Dr. Dre, a.k.a. Andre Young. The same endeavor has been good to Jimmy Iovine, not to mention American Idol and Interscope Records. And the cash the two are ponying up is for a good cause:

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