Flags have been placed at 85,000 grave sites at Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood in observance of Memorial Day 2008. | Photo & Caption by Jonathan Alcorn (Sundogg) via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr It's Memorial Day. That means Federal, state, county and city offices, courts, libraries, animal shelters and banks are closed. And Metro will run on a Sunday schedule. But the holiday is much more than a day off and a......

Photo by Try Hank via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The "severely decomposed" body of an infant has been found in Santa Ana. An area resident saw a dog playing with something unusual, which turned out to be the baby, whose body has been taken to the Orange County coroner's office for an autopsy. Police may now be ruling yesterday's 101 freeway death a suicide, reports the Daily News. Initial reports intimated......