Ryan Villopoto has won the AMA Supercross race at Angel Stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday, scoring the second win for the racer from Poulsbo.

Villopoto took the lead in the race in the race and finished laps much ahead of James Stewart, who stood second and Chad Reed, who finished third.

Villopoto said, "The track was really slippery. I really couldn't make a mistake."

Los Angeles, Oct 6 - Socialite Paris Hilton has taken aim at airline chiefs after her luggage was lost while returning here.

The reality TV star recently visited Europe and India and was returning back Oct 4 when she misplaced her luggage, reports femalefirst. co. uk.

Los Angeles, Sep 19 : A representative of actress Nikki Reid has denied reports that she and her fiance Paul Mcdonald have secretly tied the knot.

The "Twilight" star became engaged to former "American Idol" contestant McDonald earlier this year. Rumours of their wedding started after the couple were seen wearing matching gold bands on their ring fingers.

But Reed's spokesperson has dismissed the claims, saying the rings were simply a sign of their commitment to one another.

Los Angeles, Sep 15 : Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg is so eager to sell his house in Beverly Hills, California, that he has slashed $2 million off the asking price.

In 2008 he tried to sell the property, but it was taken off the market after failing to attract any buyers, reports tmz. com.

Now he has re-listed the property at $13.95 million.

Meanwhile, Wahlberg is building a new pad in nearby Beverly Park.(IANS)

Los Angeles, Sep 7 - Actress Mila Kunis is urging youngsters to take keen interest in politics.

The 28-year-old star, who is a staunch supporter of President Barack Obama, says it's "crazy" that youngsters in the US "don't educate themselves about the world".

She urges them to read book, newspaper and learn about current affairs - for the sake of their own children, reports contactmusic. com.

Los Angeles, Aug 26 : Britney Spears says if she weren't a pop star, she would rather have been a teacher.

"I'd probably be a teacher. I love kids, and even in what I do now one of my favourite parts of my day is getting to meet my fans before the show. Especially the little ones. They are always so cute," Spears told PopJustice. com.

"I'd specialise in reading and history," she said, adding that her favourite historical period is the 1920s.

Los Angeles, Aug 26:  Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are reportedly seeking a therapist to help their oldest son Pax cope with aggressive behaviour.

The couple, who raise six children together, said to have found Pax bullying his siblings.

"He's become something of a bully. He picks on Shiloh, and even his big brother, Maddox. He's having a tough time getting along with his siblings," showbizspy. com quoted a source as saying.

Los Angeles, Aug 23: Kimberly Stewart, the daughter of singer Rod Stewart, and Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro are the parents of a newborn girl, the online edition of Us Weekly reported Monday.

The birth took place in a Los Angeles hospital. It is the first child for both Stewart, 31, and the 44-year-old Del Toro.

Del Toro and Stewart are not linked officially, but the actor's representative confirmed in April that he was the father of the child Stewart was carrying.

"Benicio is the father and is very supportive," the representative said at the time.

Los Angeles, May 4 : Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor has bagged another Hollywood project - he is set to share screen space with Clive Owen in Roger Donaldson's thriller "Cities".

Anil will be seen playing a cop in the film about greed and ambition that takes place on a global scale in three colliding story lines, reports hollywoodreporter. com. The first story involves a New York-based hedge fund manager
(Owen), who has everything he wants - money, sex and power - but he wants more.

Los Angeles, July 28 - Mickey Mouse is trying to reconnect with the Facebook generation.

Disney Tuesday said that it was buying social game maker Playdom for $563.2 million.

Playdom, which launched two and a half years ago, attracts 42 million players monthly to its games such as Social City, Bola and Tiki Farm, which are popular on social networks such as Facebook.

Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom will tie the nuptial knot with his fiancee, Australian model Miranda Kerr in Los Angeles, a friend of the actor said.

"It is where they spend most of their time and where their mutual friends live," a friend of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star.

The move might come as displeasure for Adam Marshall, mayor of Gunnedah, Australia, who promised to hold a street parade and employ a brass band if Kerr's marriage to Bloom was held in her hometown.

The Archbishop of San Antonio was named to take over the archdiocese of Los Angeles by Pope Benedict XVI, when Cardinal Roger Mahoney retires.

The Los Angeles Times has reported that Jose Gomez is to take over the Los Angeles archdiocese in February, when Mahoney reaches the mandatory retirement age of 75.

The Times further informed that Gomez has been the archbishop of San Antonio for five years. He is a member of Opus Dei, a controversial, conservative order,.

Los Angeles, Jan 12 - The father who triggered a massive alert after falsely claiming his six-year-old son was adrift in an experimental helium balloon headed to jail Monday to serve a 90-day sentence after pleading guilty in November to a felony charge of attempting to influence a public servant.

Richard Heene will serve 30 days in a standard jail and 60 days in a work release programme that will allow him to work during the day and spend nights in jail. He was also sentenced to four years probation, 200 hours of community service and was banned from receiving any form of financial benefit from the infamous incident.

Los Angeles, Jan 12 - High technology has come to the glamorous world of sex dolls.

A company called Perfect Companion said Monday that it has debuted the world's first sex robot, named Roxxxy, complete with artificial intelligence that give her a life-like personality and flesh-like synthetic skin that can make her feel like a real woman.

In a statement, creator Douglas Hines says that Roxxxy, which debuted over the weekend at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, can be "programmed to learn your likes and dislikes" as well as "listen, feel, and speak to her owner."

Los Angeles, Dec 30 - The teenage father of Sarah Palin's grandchild has won a crucial court victory in a bitter child custody battle, portraying the one-time vice presidential hopeful as "vindictive" and "malicious", the Anchorage Daily News reported Tuesday.

The report said that a judge in the case had sided with Levi Johnston, 19, to have the hearings open to the public despite the request of Bristol Palin, also 19, to keep the deliberations behind closed doors.

Los Angeles, Dec 29 :President Barack Obama has urged Americans to keep vigilance against terrorism after the failed terror attack on a US passenger plane last week.

Obama, who is currently on a Hawaii vacation, said Monday the latest attack was "a serious reminder of the danger we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland", Xinhua reported.

Americans should remain vigilant but also be confident, he said. "We are doing everything in our power to keep you safe."

Los Angeles, Dec 25 : Actress Brittany Murphy, who died of cardiac arrest, has been laid to rest in a small, private ceremony at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park here.

Murphy's widower, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, and her mother Sharon were joined by close family members and friends at the funeral ceremony Thursday to pay their last respects to the 32-year-old star. It was an invitation-only ceremony, reported aceshowbiz. com.

Los Angeles, Dec 22 - A California appeals court Monday rejected a bid by lawyers for Roman Polanski to have his child-sex case thrown out on the grounds of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct.

The unanimous ruling by the three judge panel said a lower court did not err when it ruled earlier in the year that Polanski must surrender to US authorities before pursuing his misconduct claims.

Los Angeles, Dec 20 : US scientists have discovered fog moving across the south pole of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Titan looks to be the only place in the solar system aside from Earth to have copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) on its surface.

The new discovery suggests that Earth and Titan share yet another feature, which is inextricably linked with that surface liquid: common fog, according to researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Los Angeles, Dec 17 - An estimated 15 percent of American teenagers have received nude or sexually suggestive photographs on their cell phones, according to a study Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

The study about the tech-fueled trend called "sexting" said that boys are as likely as girls to send "sexts," while teens who pay for their own cell phone bills are more likely to text salacious shots.