Even though I've eaten at Studio City's Caioti Pizza Cafe a bunch of times in the past, I never knew there was a bizarre urban legend associated with the casual eatery. Apparently, one salad on their menu is purported to induce labor in expectant women. Today's "Only in LA" column in the Times checks in with the restaurant to see if the myth still holds. Steve Harvey explains, "The trend supposedly began after some very......

Applications for citizenship in September tripled. Why? People want to vote so they are not voted out of this country. Who knew you could be so productive in an hour? A group of five younger adults, one a 14-year-old male, carjacked people, did some armed robbery and kidnapping. All were caught except one. It's been five years since the Valley tried to become its own city. The movement failed when put to the ballot......

- Huge Pine Tree falls in Sherman Oaks. - LA Times' Steve Harvey basically writes the same thing as LA Observed adding a few more pictures and lines of text. - We're seeing the highest gas prices at the same time public transit fares face a possible and significant increase. - LA is No. 93 in Cities Ranked & Rated: More Than 400 Metropolitan Areas Evaluated in the U.S. & Canada. Here's how. -......

Meet Nick Vautier. He's the man behind 100parkingtickets.com. Nick's initials happen to be the same as the abbreviation for "not visible," which happens to be commonly used when Parking Officers cannot see the license plate or it's missing. Too bad for Nick, who scored the license plate, NV, got a delinquency notice everytime it was written on a ticket that went unpaid: "I started to get random parking tickets from Los Angeles," wrote the......

There are lots of comings and goings on the radio this week as Steve Harvey's morning show on The Beat signed off on Friday and Suicide Girls Radio joined the Indie 103 lineup over the weekend. Harvey's popular show continued to do well in the mornings but was very expensive to produce and failed in its efforts at syndication. Former Laker and Best Damn Sports Show correspondent John Salley took over the slot for......