"Manhattan Beach" Photo by bendelkner via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The Judge in the Myspace Suicide case is taking time to consider the third motion to dismiss Lori Drew. Drew is accused of helping create a false-identity account and harassing her young neighbor, driving her to suicide. A Glendale man is facing 30 years in prison and fines of up to $1 million for lying about horse racing bets on his......

Photo by !Manny! via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Parents Celebrate... Children Mourn: Thousands of kids head back to school today. We're sure you've noticed the increase in traffic. However Mayor Villaraigosa had a more optimistic look at the first day. Of course, he's not stuck behind smoke belching buses in the morning. Speaking of back to school, the famous (infamous) Belmont Learning Center, now called the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center,......

"yell" Photo by mkerkes on Flickr In this day and age of reusing/recycling - after rinsing with Listerine, spit it onto your foot to take care of the fungus, and then clean your floor with the runoff. In a story that looks like it will take some turns - an officer shot and killed a man after he fled from a stolen vehicle and brandished a weapon. The man's name has not been released and......

Photo by ellwoodite via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Jaywalking might have been an easier option for a 52-year-old man on foot who shot up a traffic light near UCLA. So far so good... There have been fewer fatal traffic accidents this long holiday weekend; almost half as many than last year as handled by the CHP. What's up in Long Beach? Well, more oil, apparently. It was a rough tumble for a......

Photo by Ross Reyes via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Hit and run: Police in South LA are looking for the driver of a vehicle that struck the rider of a BMX bike in the overnight hours. The 30-year-old cyclist died of his injuries at a nearby hospital. UCLA Cheating to Admit Black Students: A professor on the Admissions Committee of UCLA has resigned his committee position because he suspects the school......

Photo by Lord Jim via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A 6-month-old baby was found crawling in Downtown LA this morning. When asked where her parents were, she declined comment and is now being held at the Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services. 78 shoplifting incidents have occurred this year at the Third Street Promenade, far outweighing the 75 incidents in all of 2007. This is due to the slumping......

Photo by kimbrough-photos via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Looks like California Governor Arnold Schwargenegger could be a no-show at the upcoming RNC. He says he will remain in California until the state budget remains unresolved. Sometimes an early-morning jog isn't safe--at least it wasn't yesterday morning at around 6:30 when a jogger was struck and killed by a drunk driver. (Drunk at 6:30 a.m.? Yikes.) Glendale firefighters made a sad discovery early......

"catholic school" Photo by kpe II via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Want to make sushi for a living? Master sushi chef Katsuya Uechi is opening a sushi school in Downtown to educate sushi chef's properly as he has seen some incorrect methods. For example, he says, "living in Japan, you know that you're not supposed to eat certain fish in certain seasons. Here, anything goes. People think raw fish is raw......

Photo of the 134 Freeway by joanna banana cream pie via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Dr. Dre's son was found dead in his Woodland Hills home on Saturday morning. The cause of death is still pending a toxicology report. This upcoming weekend is a 3-day one and fewer are expected travel and it's all because of the usual suspects: economy, gas, yeah. blogdowntown has an excellent look into why the focused......

Photo by Ross Reyes via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The suspect in a brutal 1998 Baja drug-related killing that took the lives of 19 men, women, and children was apprehended late last week in East Los Angeles. Police in Long Beach are working on figuring out why a man on foot approached a 41-year-old man standing in front of a business and shot him dead. The incident took place around 7:00 last......

Photo by Never Cool in School via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr It was the handyman, in the backyard, with his bare hands, in the case of the 70-year-old Long Beach cancer patient found dead last week. Kids' football can get pretty rough...for the adults, that is. An argument led to a shooting that resulted in one man dead and one man wounded in a Reseda park. A wrong-way driver took the life......

Photo by karthikkito via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr So who's it going to be? Biden? Kaine? Bayh? Clinton? You might be getting that very special txt msg from Obama4Prez 2moro... Probably too far for us in LA to feel it, but a 3.1 earthquake hit out in Death Valley today. It's a big ol' flatline for Century City Doctors Hospital. The facility is filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and will close by......

"Artistic Cyclist Ines Brunn" Photo GarySe7en by via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr We at LAist like to be on the cutting edge of all that is LA, thus the STYLEist thread was created. Now our cousin across the pond, Londonist, has started their own to highlight the blokes in their fine city. Cheers! A 70-year-old Long Beach woman was found fatally stabbed in her backyard by her roommate late last night.......

Photo by Lord Jim via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr There might be a four-concert series at Venice Beach this September and October. It's proposed to be a pilot program, but NIMBY neighbors, including Angelica Huston, don't even want to give it a try in the first place. Leopard Sharks are sharing the waters with beach goers in Venice and Marina del Rey these days. But lifeguards say the up-to-6.5-feet sharks are......

Photo by Knot via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr NowPublic announced today that our very own LAist Editor, Zach Behrens, is one of the 20 most influential individuals in Los Angeles ("in the digital landscape"). He came in at #8 (you go dude!). However, the list, which includes Perez Hilton, Xeni Jardin and Micki Krimmel, hasn't come without controversy. Sean Bonner, also listed, took issue with the list, calling it link baiting.......

Photo by dc9000 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Know a sure-fire way to bring down the mood at a birthday party? How about a gunfire attack that kills one and wounds another. Ever wonder why "Nobody Walks in LA"? At least if you're involved in gangs, and out for a stroll in South LA on a Saturday night, that is. Has fire season wiped out reporters' command of appropriate adjectives? Oh, wait,......

Photo by kpe II via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A knee injury keeps Gov. Schwarzenegger out of a climate change conference in South Lake Tahoe. An eleven-year-old girl found a newborn baby in a Laguna Niguel dumpster this morning. Over 1,000 DMV workers protested job and hours cuts at a dozen locations throughout the state today. 2 badly burned bodies were found this morning at the site of a skin-care business fire......

Photo by LA Wad via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Things are going from worse to...worser at area DMVs; now employees at some locations are staging a sick-out, and, sadly, it's the customers in long lines who are having to suffer. I guess the man calling himself Clark Rockefeller didn't see Seven because now fingerprint evidence reveals he's really Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who lived in the guesthouse of the dead San Marino......

"Weird Purse" Photo by Plankton 4:20 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Does race have anything to do with how you'll vote on the proposition to ban same-sex marriage in California on Nov. 4th? Some say black voters lean away from supporting our rainbow friendly friends, others disagree. Our friends to the north even started a campaign to educate African Americans to support gay marriage. No city rules the way LA rules......

Photo by wendypants via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A mystery in San Clemente: OC Sheriff's are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a park there today. He suffered trauma to the torso, but no details about how and why he came to be in the park are known. Here's a tough lesson for those who like to play their car stereos too loud: Do it too often......

"Pool" Photo by S.C. Asher via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Long Beach is looking to kick it's $16.9 million budget deficit by booting the cars of repeat parking violators. Auditors say the "boot" program could bring the city at least $2.5 million a year. A year ago, it wasn't known what was going to happen to the apartment complex made famous by it's once tenant, Charles Bukowski. Now we can rest......

It's the Silver Lake Walking Man, who some call Dr. Walker-Readerman | Photo by lauren/pagni via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A follow-up on last week's FBI raids of local hospitals. Estill Mitts, 64, pleaded not guilty to the charges of "receiving as much as $20,000 a month to deliver homeless people for unnecessary medical procedures" to three area hospitals. On Friday, war activist Cindy Sheehan qualified for the November ballot to......

Photo by KingoftheHill via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A hit and run accident yesterday caused the death of a woman who'd stopped on the 10 freeway in Alhambra after she struck the center divider. Eyewitnesses were able to provide investigators with descriptions of the vehicle, which led police to find the truck, but not the driver that struck and killed the woman. Tainted meat that has since been recalled from a plant......

Photo by Try Hank via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A drive-by shooting that took place late Friday in Harbor Gateway claimed the life of its 17-year-old victim Daniel Moran early this morning when he succumbed to his wounds. Hundreds of students and parents took part in a protest today in Jefferson Park against a proposed light-rail line that would go through their community. It took 16 years, but a suspect has finally......

Photo by staceyviera via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A hit-and-run accident this morning in Santa Ana has left a cyclist critically injured. Hollywood is mourning 77-year-old producer and manager Bernie Brillstein, who died overnight from kidney failure following a battle with heart disease. Plans for his funeral are reportedly pending. No more Big Macs before Space Mountain, or some McNuggets after It's A Small World... Disney has announced they will no longer......

"Weeeee!" Photo by The Eye of Brad via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr You think your college is a drag? Check out LA Snark's findings on the 10 Least Happy Schools in America. One school on the outskirts of LA made the list. Hint: coolest hangouts there include “a great rec center” and the student commons. Dr. Kevin Brown has pleaded not guilty to 23 counts of sexually abusing patients, including an undercover......

Photo by Atwater Village Newbie via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr How would you like to know how many calories are in your Awesome Blossom, Big Mac, Tour of Italy, or Moons Over My Hammy? He didn't enter a plea when he was arraigned yesterday, no one is sure what his real name is, he's not one of "those" Rockefellers, and now he's a "person of interest" in the 1985 cold case surrounding......

"Bike Long Beach" Photo by Binaryla via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Kevin Smith won his appeal to lower the rating of his new flick, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," from an NC-17 to an R rating. Elizabeth Banks and (who else...) Seth Rogan star in the film which will most likely bring A LOT of skin to the big screen. A drunk driver jumped a curb in Riverside and killed......

Photo by Sundogg via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A 55-year-old Long Beach man found clinging to life this morning in a park has died; his gunshot wound is believed to be self-inflicted. A suspect has been named in the shooting of a Polytechnic High football player this weekend. 18-year-old David Aranda Fernandez of North Hollywood allegedly shot 16-year-old Edward Satterstron to death outside of a Taco Bell. Back to the Bratz... Well,......

Photo by dc9000 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A 16-year-old high school football star from Sun Valley was shot to death behind the Taco Bell near Laurel Canyon and Roscoe in North Hollywood. Edward Satterstrom, who was on foot when he was confronted by a gunman, was a student at Polytechnic High with hopes of attending USC. Laid-off state workers gathered outside the Governor's home today to protest the budget-related job losses......