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LOS ANGELES - 'The Other Guys' are the main guys at the box office, knocking off 'Inception' to take the No. 1 spot.

Listia, a marketplace for free stuff, has raised $1.75 million in funding from an impressive roster of investors and angels. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from SV Angel, Founder Collective, High Line Venture Partners, Max Levchin, Naval Ravikant, Alex Zubillaga, James Hong and others. Listia previously raised $400K in angel funding.

LOS ANGELES — Sherlock Holmes is facing his worst enemy: declining crowds at theaters as this year’s domestic movie attendance dips to the lowest in 16 years.

I’m trying to restrict myself to only one Portal post a day, but two weeks after its release, I can’t stop finding cool stuff pertaining to the game.

Los Angeles police said on Friday they were looking for a group of masked thieves who stole an estimated $2 million (£1.2m) in diamonds in a backpack from a man whose car they intentionally struck.

A year ago, Mangrove Capital Partners invested $1.75 million in SohoOS and its small-business management service. Today the company is announcing that Morgenthaler Ventures is leading a second round of financing to the tune of $8 million (it's also the firm's first investment in an Israeli-based startup). All existing investors, including Mangrove Capital Partners, Kima Ventures and The Time are participating in the round as well. Joining Mangrove's Michael Jackson on the company's board will be Morgenthaler Ventures' Mark Goines, whose previous experience of running TurboTax, GM'ing Inuit's consumer division, as well as backing the likes of of Mint.com as an angel investor, should come in handy for SohoOS as it begins to double down on user acquisition.

More LTE! Celebrate! If you're an AT&T customer waiting to catch up with Sprint and Verizon in the speed department, you just might have a reason to party. The carrier just announced 11 more markets for their 4G LTE rollout, making it available now in 26 total areas including NYC Metro, San Francisco, Los Angeles. This addition makes AT&T...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Emmy-winning character actor Harry Morgan , whose portrayal of the fatherly Col. Potter on television's "M-A-S-H" highlighted a show business career that included nine other TV series, 50 films and the Broadway stage, died Wednesday. He was 96.

In case some kind soul hasn't informed you yet, the Rapture is fast approaching. According to Family Radio's Harold Camping, it's scheduled for May 21, 2011, as anyone with a Bible and a head for figures can check for themselves. Don't believe me, he says, it was all written down ages ago and “it's absolutely true, because the Bible is always absolutely true.” Never mind that the same Harold Camping originally predicted the Rapture would happen on September 6, 1994. In honor of the big day, I thought we could take a look at the various Rapture services available to those who are shortly going to be whisked away to party with the angels.