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• LA tries to curb runaway film production

  LOS ANGELES City officials took steps Tuesday to encourage filmmaking in Los Angeles and curb runaway production.

• Charlie Sheen due back on `Two and a Half Men'

  In this Jan. 28, 2009 file photo, actor Charlie Sheen is pictured at an event to celebrate Planet Hollywood's purchase of restaurant chain Buca di Beppo, at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles.

• Actor Corey Haim dies of suspected drug overdose

  Corey Haim, the Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, has died in Los Angeles of an apparent drug overdose.

• Agentina's 'The Secret in Their Eyes' wins Academy Award for best foreign language film

  Director Juan Jose Campanella, right, accepts the Oscar for best foreign language film of the year for "El Secreto de Sus Ojos" from fellow Argentine Pedro Almodovar at the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

• De Niro to play Lombardi?

  Actor Robert De Niro arrives at the 8th Annual British Academy Of Film And Television Arts Britannia Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel on November 5, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

• Huge Industrial Fire Burning in South Los Angeles

  More than 150 firefighters are battling a large industrial fire burning on the just south of downtown on the edge of Huntington Park.

• Bob Barker Donates $2.5M To Create PETA Offices

  Share + Comments Mar 9, 2010 1:02 pm US/Pacific Bob Barker has donated $2.5 million to help the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals open a new location in Los Angeles.

• Los Angeles Police Arrest Sexual Assault Suspect

  Share + Mar 8, 2010 1:55 am US/Pacific LOS ANGELES 1 of 1 Los Angeles Police arrested a 35-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl he met on MySpace Friday.

• Odor leads police to 200 pot plants in LA

  Los Angeles police say all they needed to find marijuana growing in a Van Nuys warehouse was a sense of smell.

• Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin prove two Oscar hosts better than one

  Host Alec Baldwin, right, and Steve Martin are seen on stage at the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.