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Extra, Extra
Photo by jennifer_kelton via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Track record? Governor Schwarzenegger got booed this weekend when he paid a visit to Hollywood Park to honor Zenyatta, the horse with the amazing perfect record. A small brush fire that sparked up near the 73 toll road in Irvine was quickly put out this afternoon. Director Roman Polanski remains jailed in Switzerland, where authorities are insisting he pay the full $4.5 million...
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Ski Mask Robber Dad, Get Away Driver Mom & their 2 Kids in the Backseat
Photo by VeryBadLady via Flickr A Van Nuys couple was arrested early this morning after California Highway Patrol officers pursued a man in a ski mask who allegedly had just robbed an IHOP in Encino. Officers used a PIT maneuver--that's when you spin a fleeing car out of control--to capture the two after a short pursuit. What officers say they didn't know, according to the LAPD, is that there were two children, aged 4...
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Osteria and Pizzeria Mozza to Take Credit/Debit for Valet Parking
Photo by biskuit via Flickr Should this be one of those "that's so L.A." moments or a "why wasn't this done years ago" moments? For those of you who always carry plastic and never cash, this should be convenient, at least when you visit Nancy Silverton, Mario Batalli & Joe Bastlanich's Osteria and Pizzeria Mozza restaurants. "Some guests don't carry cash, so it made sense to establish this hassle-free way to pay the valet...
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Santa Monica Now Offering Oil and Grease Recycling for Restaurants
Crispy Bacon | Photo by rick via Flickr The ever-so progressive and eco-friendly city of Santa Monica is at it again, this time with sewer clogging fats, oil and grease (FOG), which now can be collected for a new future as biofuel. In parking structures 2 through 6, restaurants can jettison their FOG for free, the city announced today. Similarly, residents can recycle their FOG at the city's Household Hazardous Waste Facility at 2500...
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Beware of LADWP Impostors Over the Phone
Word on the street via a neighborhood watch in the Valley is that at least one house received a phone call from someone claiming to be from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The man on the phone said the customer's bill was not paid--the customer said it was. Upon calling the LADWP themselves, a representative said there was no record of an outbound phone call and that, in general, accounts past...
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L.A. to Seattle for $39 on United? Yes, it's Cyber Monday
For those who like to travel--and come on, don't we all?--today is the day to pick a city and go, go, go! United, Jet Blue and Virgin are all offering some nice deals to get out of Los Angeles. $39 will get you to San Francisco or Seattle on United and with $30 more, Virgin will do the same to Seattle. Plenty of more deals, thanks to the info at Cheap Flights....
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Police Seek Parolee in Series of Westside Home Burglaries
A spike in daytime residential burglaries on the Westside during October had detectives scratching their heads. That was until October 16th when a fingerprint from a recovered cell phone taken in a Santa Monica burglary led back to parolee Daniel Perez. Later that day, another burglary in West Los Angeles was connected to Perez. In all, he's believed to be involved with at least 21 burglaries, according to the LA Times....
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Tiger Woods Drops Out of Thousand Oaks Tournament
This photo taken Nov. 27, 2009 and provided by the celebrity Web siteTMZ.com shows a Cadillac Escalade that Tiger Woods crashed into a tree outside his home in Windermere, Fla. (AP Photo/TMZ) Citing injuries from his solo car crash on Friday, Tiger Woods has bowed out of the 2009 Chevron World Challenge, an event that benefits his namesake charity and scheduled to begin tomorrow in Thousand Oaks. Friday's incident was the lynchpin for a...
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3 Boys Arrested for 'Kick a Ginger Day' Classmate Attacks
Three boys have been arrested, following an ongoing investigation of a series of attacks against redheaded classmates November 20th at a Calabasas school, abc7 is reporting. 7 students, four girls and three boys, were victims of "Kick a Ginger Day" attacks at A.E. Wright Middle School. A LA County shefiff's spokesman said "Two 12-year-olds were arrested for suspicion of misdemeanor battery, and a 13-year-old was booked for misdemeanor cyberbullying." The attacks are thought have...
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Lessons from South L.A.: Market Makeovers' New Website Teaches Youth How to 'Green' a Food Desert
Earlier this year, as part of a talk about food and community held at the California Endowment, we learned about the teens in South Los Angeles in a group called HEAC who had been working with Market Makeovers. Their mission is to encourage their peers to try snacking on healthier, fresh alternatives to chips and candy bars, and to help owners of area corner stores convert the space to make the healthy options more...
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World Cup to L.A.?
Photo by Katie@! via Flickr Los Angeles may have lost its bid to Chicago for the 2016 Olympics (not that they won, anyway), but two City Councilmembers would like to see the 2018 or 2022 FIFA World Cup come here, should the U.S. be selected as the host country. 27 U.S. cities are considered potential host venues--the Rose Bowl in Pasadena was a venue in 1994--but that doesn't mean Los Angeles is a shoe-in....
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Early Morning Earthquake Slightly Shakes Los Angeles Area
You probably didn't feel it, but if you did, you weren't dreaming it. A magnitude 2.4 microearthquake struck 11 miles southwest of downtown in the Hawthorne-Lennox area at 2:41 a.m. There have been no reports of damage or injuries, just a bunch of people on Twitter freaking out. These little shakers happen everyday and are nothing to worry about. However, they are a good reminder to get prepared....
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Video: Aerialist Falls During Holiday Show at Beverly Center
Onlookers gathered on multiple levels of the Beverly Center to watch the holiday-themed acrobatics of "Hunky Santa and the Candy Cane Girls," yesterday witnessed a 26-year-old female performer take a nasty fall from her suspended metal hoop. The aerialist "managed to turn herself right side up before falling into a video projection cube and injuring her wrist and pelvis. She was not wearing a harness, and there were no nets to break her fall," according to LA Now.
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Winds, Falling Rocks Keeping Part of Angeles Crest Hwy Closed*
Photo by GarySe7en via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Weekend winds brought rocks and debris down the mountainsides up on Angeles Crest, which meant that this morning motorists eager to resume their commute on portions of the Highway that have been closed since late-August have to wait until the danger has passed, according to LA Now. 40 miles of roads in the Angeles National Forest were due to re-open at 5 this...
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Extra, Extra - Post Meal Coma Leftovers Edition
Playing "Catch" at Zuma Beach | Photo by rchiba via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr More of the same... A water main break in Highland Park wreaked the usual havoc. A trick so old its been made fun of on "The Simpsons"... A fake sweepstakes pulled in some gullible criminals in La Mirada. Another elderly driver accident. This time an LAPD officer was the victim in Van Nuys. A little unexpected perhaps?...
