Extra, Extra: When It Rains It Pours

Photograph by the amazing Tom Andrews via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr

• Rain... Some love it. Some hate it. But it is needed either way. More rain is expected over the weekend so please drive carefully!

• Wait, wait... stop us if you've heard this before. There is still no agreement on the state budget... Yeah we thought so... So much for those closures and furloughs that have 200,000+ forced to stay home.

• Turns out that LAUSD never fully addressed that lead in the drinking water issue. After an NBC investigative report found unsafe lead levels in drinking water at some LAUSD schools, the LAUSD has had to completely shut off the water at some middle schools because of levels as high as 426 times the government limit. Yikes!

• Bad news: Finding out that you have a rapist working for you. Worse news: Finding out that he was re-hired somewhere else.

• Curbed LA reports that the plans for the improvement and redevelopment of the Queen Mary grounds may be coming to a halt, even though $6 million may have been already invested.

• R.I.P. "Brooks Hatlen". The great actor James Whitmore passed away in his Malibu home today at the age of 87 from lung cancer.

• An exotic dancer was set on fire outside a nightclub last night. Although she survived, she is in critical condition with burns over 60 percent of her body. Police have released the names and photos of the accused suspects and are asking for the public's help in finding them. Anyone with info is urged to call Homicide detectives at (213) 485-2531.

• Altadena Police are also asking for the public's help to find a mother and her two children and stop an attempt at a murder-suicide. An Amber Alert was called to help find Lisa Vigil Ruelas and her kids Gabriel and Evan Ruelas. Anyone with information is urged to call the Altadena Sheriff's Station at (626) 798-1131.

• After allowing over 2000 gallons of raw sewage to pour into the ocean, the LA Regional Water Quality Board has hit the owner of the Paradise Cove Mobil Home Park with a $1.65 million fine. Apparently they repeatedly failed to meet deadlines to make the necessary changes needed to stop that crap from polluting the local creeks and ocean.

• Finally... Eater LA had the scoop on celebs and their eating spots. #1 does a former American Gladiator count as a celebrity? #2 does a "girly" drink in a "manly" glass make it less girly?