Organized labor leaders in Los Angeles are now arguing that unionized companies should have the freedom to pay less than the city’s new $15 per hour minimum wage. [*Turns to face labor leaders*] You are the shittiest labor leaders I ever heard of!

In Los Angeles, where the median household income is $56,000, a $500 million house is rising.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 to raise of the city’s minimum wage, which will increase from $9 an hour to $15 an hour by 2020, The Washington Post reports. Similar legislation has recently passed in places like Seattle and San Francisco, but Los Angeles will be the largest city by far to adopt the $15 per hour base wage.

Yesterday, the city of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit against the $284 billion bank Wells Fargo alleging that the company pressured employees into defrauding unwitting customers. Isn’t that something?

Los Angeles: “It’s like grown-up version of Williamsburg.” But also: “Los Angeles is really the wage-theft capital of the country.” Hmm.

The city of Los Angeles says it spends more than $100 million per year on homelessness, for a homeless population of 23,000. More than 80% of that money is spent on things that are not "building places for the homeless to live," which could be one reason the homeless population in L.A. is growing.

In a bold statement about the nature of celebrity and stuff or something, a Los Angeles-based artist known as Plastic Jesus has put up multiple "No Kardashian Parking" signs around Hollywood.

The two suburban Los Angeles high school teachers, who allegedly had an alcohol-fueled sexy beach party with 5 male students, are facing additional charges this week. Melody Lippert, 38, and Michelle Ghirelli, 30, were arrested last month for giving the underage students alcohol; prosecutors now say they had sex with the boys and gave them cocaine.

The three Los Angeles Police Department officers who shot and killed Brian Beaird after a car chase on live television in 2013 will not face criminal charges, the Los Angeles Times reports. Beaird, a 51-year-old a National Guard veteran, suffered from mental illness.

Ben Woolf, an actor on American Horror Story, has died, the Associated Press reports. Woolf was hospitalized last week after being struck by a car.

On Monday evening, an armed man led LAPD on an insane chase involving four accidents, two escape vehicles and a carjacking before police finally shot and subdued the suspect while he tried to steal a third car.

NelkFilmz is run by a group of young men that resemble an unkempt boy band on the cusp of being discovered for a Nickelodeon series. They film themselves "pranking" people. Their latest sick goof? Selling "coke" out of their car in Los Angeles.

L.A. prosecutors will not be charging Bill Cosby for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old girl at the Playboy mansion in 1974, the L.A. Times reports. After looking into the claims, authorities said Tuesday that any potential sex crime from that time falls well outside the statute of limitations.

For those of us who live on the East Coast, contemplating the demise of Los Angeles at the hands of Mother Nature is like watching a horror movie, rather than like being in a horror movie. Did you know one little earthquake could make the whole place dry up and blow away?

"What the f***?! Oh sh**!" On Friday, Los Angeles was hit with a tornado for the first time since 2004, The Washington Post reports, an event captured on camera in a heavily bleeped home video.

More than 200 firefighters were called to the scene of a seven-story apartment complex fire in downtown Los Angeles early this morning. The complex appears to have been leveled in the blaze, with two other buildings damaged and the 101 Freeway briefly closed off to traffic.

In his new memoir, Andy Cohen flatly asserts that Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey is gay. “I still get enraged when I think about [Spacey] talking about being in love with that woman on 60 Minutes,” he writes. “Come out, sir.” Given the Bravo host’s stature, the passage has caused a ruckus in gay and entertainment circles. (The book carries a glowing blurb by none other than Anderson Cooper.) Still, Cohen’s statement hardly lacks supporting evidence—such as a few long-lost photos published nearly 15 years ago.

On the third night of protests following a Ferguson grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown, Los Angeles police arrested 130 "unruly" demonstrators Wednesday for unlawful assembly and failure to disperse, KTLA reports.

In an alarming court case from last November, lawyers representing the Los Angeles Unified School District successfully argued that a 14-year-old girl involved with her 28-year-old teacher consented to having sex.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office has confirmed that remains discovered by hikers in Palmdale, Ca. Sunday to be Gavin Smith, the 20th Century Fox film distribution executive who disappeared in May of 2012. He was 57.