Andrew Blankstein

LOS ANGELES -- As the sun set over the Hollywood Hills park where police spent Wednesday searching for human body parts, they still didn't have a name to go with the man's head discovered there a day earlier.

What they did have were two hands and two feet. Authorities were optimistic that the hands were in good enough condition to obtain fingerprints.

LOS ANGELES -- Two undercover Los Angeles police officers were shot and wounded late Saturday night after trying to intervene in a gang-related shooting they witnessed, sparking a gun battle and a massive manhunt through Koreatown for the shooter.

LOS ANGELES -- Amid reports of nude pictures of Scarlett Johansson allegedly hacked from her cell phone, FBI officials Wednesday confirmed a "continuing probe" into "a series of computer intrusions" targeting celebrities.

LOS ANGELES -- Talk about an open-and-shut case.

Two Los Angeles police officers were stopped at a light at about noon Monday when a motorist pulled alongside them, rolled down his window and made a startling admission.

LOS ANGELES -- The premiere for a movie about a music festival with a controversial past got out of hand itself Wednesday when hundreds of people attempted to crash the Hollywood event, police said.

Crowds spilled into the street around Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, with some people throwing bottles at police. Witnesses said others were dancing on a police car, taunting officers and "planking" -- lying down in the street. There were also sporadic fights among people in the crowd.

Police in riot gear shut down streets around the theater, and dozens of other officers in police cruisers responded to the disturbance.

LOS ANGELES -- Three former Diamond Bar elementary school PTA members were charged Wednesday with nearly two dozen criminal counts in connection with an alleged Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 40 people out of $1 million.

Maricela Barajas, 41, Juliana Celeste Menefee, 50, and Eva Perez, 51, face 22 felony counts each of grand theft of personal property and securities fraud, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

If convicted on all counts, each defendant faces a maximum sentence of up to 13 years in state prison, Robison said.

L.A. County sheriff's investigators allege the women coaxed their victims into handing over their life savings or taking equity out of their homes for "investments" while working at school events and functions as members of the Armstrong Elementary School PTA.

LOS ANGELES -- The creators of a dogfighting phone game that has been criticized by animal-protection groups and police said Monday that the game was meant to educate the public on the evils of animal cruelty.