Photo from the Getty by Rick O! via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Students, faculty, staff, and parents associated with Lincoln Elementary school in Santa Monica are trying to come to grips today with the weekend arrest of Thomas Beltran, who taught ESL at the school. Beltran, 60, has been charged with molesting four young girls who were his students. An auto fire turned into a brush fire late this afternoon near......

Good thing the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) put out a Red Flat Alert (move your car if you live in the hills or you could be towed) last night for today -- a major brush fire began this morning around 5:50 a.m. near Tampa Ave and Sesnon Bl (yo, Valley, people, this is Porter Ranch) in Los Angeles County territory according to alerts from the LAFD. In the name of mutual aid, the......

125 firefighters and five water-dropping helicopters are attacking a fire that is being fanned by 10 MPH winds. Captain Antoine McKnight was on KCAL news a few minutes ago saying that approximately 30 acres have burned. The Griffith Park Zoo, the golf course, the observatory, the boys camp, the merry-go-round, the magnet school, the Gene Autry museum have all been evacuated. Later when pushed by KCAL anchors, he pushed the estimate of damage to......

We caught sight of this unfortunate scene at the corner of Lankershim Boulevard and Bloomfield in North Hollywood just a few minutes ago. In typical "breaking news" fashion, several news vans were already there, prepping their reports. We just had our lousy camera phone. Obvious news of the day: It's freakin' windy out! While we do feel badly for the person whose car got a little too close and personal with that fallen tree,......