TechCrunch has learned about noted technology investor Tim Draper’s plan to split California into six separate states, including a Northern California slice appropriately named “Silicon Valley ( Read more... )

Church files show priests' ecclesiastical missteps treated more sternly than abuse
By Victoria Kim, Ashley Powers and Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times
8:28 p.m. CST, February 1, 2013

The archdiocese of Los Angeles learned in the late 1970s that one of its priests [TW for graphic description of sexual abuse]had sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy so violently that he was left bleeding and " ( Read more... )

Los Angeles (CNN) -- In what activists describe as unprecedented, the Catholic archbishop in Los Angeles has relieved a retired cardinal of his public and administrative duties for his mishandling of "painful and brutal" allegations of sexual abuse by
priests.

Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of the Los Angeles Archdiocese disciplined his predecessor, the ( Read more... )

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Twice voted the best gay bar in the world, The Abbey in Los Angeles has banned all bachelorette parties until marriage becomes equal for gay couples ( Read more... )

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Autism hidden in plain sight ( Read more... )

The 32-year-old choral group welcomes two openly straight members

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Officials brought in federal grants and private donations to hire labs to test 6,132 evidence kits that had sat idle for years. Now the city aims to beef up its own lab to keep up with incoming cases.

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Kobe Bryant fined $100,000 for gay slur

Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 by the NBA on Wednesday for a homophobic slur that commissioner David Stern called "offensive and inexcusable."

After receiving a technical foul during Tuesday's game against the San Antonio Spurs, Bryant stormed to the bench, hit his seat before sitting ( Read more... )