Los Angeles Times reporter Francisco Vara-Orta was quick to jump on the case of an alleged sighting of a mountain lion in the Eagle Rock vicinity on the morning of May 2nd 2008. Local police had received calls just before 9:00 am pertaining to a mysterious large cat prowling the backyard of a house on the 5000 block of College View Avenue. Usually in these kind of cases, when authorities turn up there is no......

Stonehill News is a microblog for a small neighborhood within Altadena. They don't update often, but when they do, it's something good. This month, they have some photos of a bear wandering a local street and private driveway. From January. they have a photo of a cougar in NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab parking lot and a half eaten deer carcass from a couple years ago. (via Mayor Sam)......