Steve Lopez randomly challenges Dodgers Pitcher Derek Lowe to a golfing home run derby at the stadium for charity. Steve loses and donates $500 to the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA. A journal of sorts following Kristina Ripatti, the LAPD Officer who was shot and paralyzed while on duty in June of 2006. There are only two places in the states where you can be a police officer whose job is to board cruise......

Up in NoCal an Alameda County jury awarded $172 million today to Wal-Mart employees who had been denied their 30-minute unpaid lunch breaks. The breaks are required for anyone who works 6 hours. Wal-Mart didn't dispute that they'd jipped employees of those measely, unpaid breaks. They just tried to say they couldn't sue about it; the case has been tied up in court for four years. After four years there's sure to be a......