As reports and tweets comes out of of SXSW in Austin, TX where BusinessWeek's Sarah Lacy reportedly held a disastrous interview with 23-year-old Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, news of the popular social networking site with more of a national and local business twist hit the wires: Paramount will offer movie clips via a Facebook application, a first for the movie industry....

After a 5-month investigation, the Associated Press found that Los Angeles drinking water has traces of Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications. "To be sure," the AP noted "the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose." Across the nation, the report found tainted water supplies in 24 major metropolitan areas, five of those in California: Los Angeles: 2 (meprobamate and phenytoin)......

Nick's, home of delicious breakfast burritos, by Rebecca~James via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr Remember when we told you that Los Angeles tap water was the best tasting in the world? Turns out that our delicious H20 might have been sprinkled with delicious drugs. The AP found that a multitude of pharmaceuticals, like antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones, have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million......

Say you're going to kill the President and the feds will see you in court a week later. That's what happened to a 50-year-old Pacoima man last week before getting arrested, according to the Daily News. Charles Madrid told the Secret Service what he would do if Bush were present right at that moment: "I'd deck his ass." And Vice President Dick Cheney? He also "needs an ass kicking." Some thought Madrid was mentally ill,......

A Fontana man was robbed at gunpoint Sunday night, according to The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. The suspect escaped with a bag of tacos. The victim, a 35-year-old Fontana man, had just bought about $20 in tacos from a stand at San Bernardino and Fontana avenues and was riding home when the bandit confronted him. "He approached him from behind, saying, `Give me your tacos,"' said police Sgt. Jeff Decker. "He grabbed the bag of......

Two Chinese immigrants in different parts of the country were charged in separate cases of espionage today, the Associated Press reports. One of them was based here:In Los Angeles, former Boeing engineer "Greg'' Chung was arrested on charges of working as an unregistered agent for the Chinese government who stole trade secrets from the defense contractor. Prosecutors say the stolen data largely focused on aerospace programs. Chung, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was indicted last week......

Via L.A. Land, the Associated Press is bringing us the latest chapter in the uplifting Horatio Alger story of CountryWide Financial Corp's Angelo Mozilo: ...under fire over the size of his potential payout from the proposed sale of his troubled mortgage company, [Mozilo] says he is forfeiting some $37.5 million in severance pay, fees and perks he was scheduled to receive upon his retirement. $37.5 million? Hell's Bells! Remind me to flog my 401K......

Hersheys announced Thursday that it will stop production of Ice Breakers Pacs in response to complaints by law enforcement that the nickel-sized bags resemble drug packets. Associated Press writer Peter Jackson reports on Hershey CEO David West's announcement: "Some community and law-enforcement leaders have expressed concern" about the shape of pouch and the Xylitol sweetener inside, and about the possibility of the mints being mistaken for illegal substances, West said. "We are sensitive to these......

Projected Nevada Democratic caucus winner Hillary Clinton campaigned here in California this week, visiting supporters gathered at CSUN As the results of today's caucuses--including one being held at Caesar's Palace--in Nevada continue to stream in, most are projecting Senator Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney the winners of the Democratic and Republican races, respectively. The LA Times is reporting that "with 78% of the precincts reporting, Clinton had about 51% of the vote and Obama 45%.......

Read the "sassy" version of this story here. Ike Turner, ex-hubby to Tina Turner and a "rock and roll pioneer", died last month on December 12 in his northern San Diego county home. The cause of death was not immediately known then, but today, the results from the coroner came to light."We are listing that he abused cocaine, and that's what resulted in the cocaine toxicity,'' said Paul Parker, chief investigator at the medical examiner's......

How much Britney coverage is too much? Whatever it is, it's not enough. In an e-mail memo, obtained by Gawker, sent this morning from Frank Baker, Assistant Bureau Chief, Los Angeles, he tells staff that "virtually everything involving Britney is a big deal." "That doesn't mean every rumor makes it on the wire," he continues, "But it does mean that we want to pay attention to what other are reporting and seek to confirm those......

What in the world is a caucus? Associated Press does a quick Q&ALooking for a caucus update with a nifty tracker on the primary elections, check out Campaign 2008 on the LA TimesSo why New Hampshire and Iowa and what happens next? The Times Online, explains it best.How do the candidates make it work for them? Iowa has the breakdown.Even Rolling Stones is getting in on the election opinion game with their Five Not......

Article by Adam Rose and Ryan Jesena. UCLA has officially announced Rick Neuheisel as their new head football coach. Neuheisel was a walk-on quarterback for the Bruins and led them to the 1984 Rose Bowl victory against Illinois. He has a very successful track record coaching at the college level (66-30) but has spent the past few years clunking around the NFL assistant ranks. As a graduate assistant with UCLA, he was credited for the......

UCLA hires Rick Neuheisel to become their football coach....

The LA Times is reporting that the authorities have named 5 men as suspects in the arson case of the brush fires that tore through Malibu and burned over 50 homes beginning on November 24. The suspects were identified by sheriff's officials as Brian Allen Anderson, 22, William Thomas Coppock, 23, and Brian David Franks, 27, all of Los Angeles, and Eric Matthew Ullman, 18, and Dean Allen Lavorante, 19, both of Culver City, authorities......

Former major leaguer Mark Littel doesn't have balls of steel, but he's got a product that would convince you otherwise. Watch as he takes a direct hit in his, um, strike zone from a pitching machine. On purpose. Without flinching. Littel is promoting the Nutty Buddy as the best athletic cup known to man. He's sunk $40,000 of his own money into the project (designed with the help of a couple golf balls and......

Pour a lil cough medicine on the floor for this dead homie: paramedics were called to the Mondrian Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in response to a 911 call this morning, where they found rapper Pimp C, also known as Chad Butler, dead of mysterious causes. The artist had just performed a show at the House of Blues with Too $hort a few days ago. From the Los Angeles Times: "The hotel released the following......

The local tv news is doing something interesting today, they're really hyping their user- viewer-generated photographs during their broadcasts. KNBC's even went a step further. When it showed a slideshow of photos from its viewers, they added a bed of solemn music as their reporter narrated over the images. Too bad their website doesn't have a permalink to the images, but whatevs, they're trying. As good as the photos were from locals and amateurs,......

Happy Halloween Britney! Her pink leopard print leotard is amazing. Exactly what I would be doing after I lost custody of my kids- partying at Heidi Klum's Halloween party - Daily News In more Britney news....cocaine use claims are flying all over the place Malibu mansion party - Female First And in more cocaine related news, tennis star Martina Hingis is accused of testing positive for the drug at Wimbleton this year - People Big......

There are 14,000 firefighters our there right now helping protecting us. 3,000 of them are prison inmates who began working the front lines yesterday.A spokesman for the corrections department says it's close to the most the state has ever used. The inmates go through a four-week training program. They must be physically fit, have no history of violent crime and have between four months to three years remaining on their sentences. They're paid $1......

Some Trekkies are having heart palpitations over this: William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk, will not be in the 2008 release of Star Trek. While Leonard Nimoy gets to play the resurrection of his character, Spock, there is no place for Shatner and the cocky and horny Boston Legal character is disappointed, he told the Associated Press: 'I couldn't believe it. I'm not in the movie at all. Leonard, God bless his heart, is in,......

The Associated Press busted a big story today. In order to see if Comcast was indeed interfering with filesharing, the AP tested a big file on the Internet via the popular filesharing software BitTorrent, a digital copy of the most famous text in the world - the Holy Bible. Despite the fact that Comcast swears they don't cockblock web access, the AP found that two out of three times, the transfer was interfered by......

The fallout from Appalachian State’s upset over Michigan extended beyond Michigan falling out of the Associated Press Top 25 poll. The AP announced on Thursday that lower division schools are now eligible to be included in the poll. It’s great that the Championship Subdivision (aka Division I-AA) has a chance of being ranked alongside the big boys. While I highly doubt that a team even as accomplished as Appalachian State will crack the Top......

Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, who was arrested in June for soliciting gay sex in a Minnesota bathroom, announced on Saturday that he would resign his senate seat on Sept. 30. He had received intense pressure from the Republican party to take one for the team. According to a CNN story, Craig's announcement was called "the right decision" by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had called the Idaho senator's actions "unforgivable." (LAist wants to......

One of our favorite summer tv shows is CBS's "Big Brother", a reality show where they put a bunch of people together in a house and make them live together in the valley and vote each other out until there's just one winner. Cameras are everywhere, and almost every move is documented 24/7 and broadcast via the Internet. CBS broadcasts edited versions of the progress twice a week, and Showtime airs live footage from......

Even with their lead singer and co-founding member Paul Stanley flat on his back with doctors temporarily stopping his heart to rectify a ticker pulsing at 190+ beats-per-minute, rock group KISS went on with the show Friday in San Jacinto. Performing as a trio for the first time ever in their storied 33-year career, Gene Simmons led Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer through more than a dozen classic Kiss tunes at the Soboba Casino......

Phillies 15, Dodgers 3 - After loosing 10,001 games, Philadelphia took out 124 years of cheesesteak-fueled frustration on the Dodgers. Starting pitcher J.D. Durbin had three of the team's 26 hits one of 15 Phillie runs. All this from a guy who had never reached base before in his life. Heck, he'd never won a game in his life, either. Check both off his to-do list. The Dodgers actually had a respectable 14 hits (yup,......

This may seem like a moot point in the wake of the horror that is the Benoit murder-suicide. I do not mean to minimize the tragedy by nit-picking. But I cannot believe that in this day and age I am seeing headlines like this one from Fox News: WRESTLER CHRIS BENOIT, WIFE ARGUED OVER RETARDED CHILD BEFORE MURDER- SUICIDE And here it is again. And again. Retarded child? Retarded? Are you kidding me? This poor......

Deep in the Heart of Texas…is a murderous mob. Don’t mess with Texas…because if you do, you will be beat to death with Texan fists. That’s right folks. That is exactly what can happen. According to the Associated Press, two men Victor (last name currently unknown) and David Morales, were driving in a crowded parking lot on June 19th on their way home from work when they accidentally hit a toddler with their car.......

The Associated Press wrote today that Rosie O'Donnell is meeting with CBS to discuss potentially becoming the next host of the Price is Right. All she has to do is beat out the likes of cable entertainment news show hosts Todd Newton and Mark Steines. I don't know about you, but just the thought of Rosie O’Donnell moving to Los Angeles and taking over this iconically glittery game show makes me giddy. Even Bob......