An interview that former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro made to a the Southbay local paper, the Daily Breeze, is causing a stir in the Barack Obama campaign. Ferraro, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, told the Breeze reporter, "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who......

Photo by Lush.i.ous via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Speaking of that 14-car pile-up this morning on the 101 freeway, how about this fact via the Daily Breeze? There's a near $11-billion price "cost to society" due to car crashes according to a study called "Crashes: What's the Cost to Society?" According to the study -- conducted on behalf of the American Automobile Association by the transportation policy firm Cambridge Systematics --......

Jamiel Shaw, a star athlete at Los Angeles High School, was gunned down near his West Adams home on Sunday on the 2100 block of S. 5th Street. While on the phone with his girlfriend, Shaw, 17, was allegedly approached by two Latino men and asked what gang he was affiliated with. When he didn't say anything, they shot him. After being shot, Shaw was discovered by his father, Jamiel Shaw Sr. who had heard......

The Daily Breeze has the low-down on the latest from Super Tuesday's ugly non-partisan voting mishap where nearly 50,000 votes went uncounted because of a tricky "double bubble" on ballots. Los Angeles County registrar Dean Logan has announced more than 50% of uncounted votes will be counted. Here are the technical details: The omission of the additional mark did not affect ballots cast purely for state propositions. Of the estimated 200,000 nonpartisan voters, 50 percent......

The Daily Breeze headed out to Wednesday's Crenshaw/Prairie Transit Corridor Study meeting (two more left) and found themselves in what we would consider a very disappointing night of transit development: The Crenshaw line would... pass within a mile of Los Angeles International Airport. This is starting to sound eerily familliar. However.........

The Daily Breeze is reporting that police were searching earlier this morning for a possible gunman at California State Dominguez Hills in Carson: Two students apparently reported around 8:30 a.m. they saw a gunman carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and wearing a green jacket and no shirt, according to news reports. The alleged gunman may have also had additional canisters of ammunition around his waist and he was headed toward Lacorte Hall, an building of......

"Welcome to NoHo," by ~db~ via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr Happy 5th Birthday Gothamist!! A "possible" security breach at the Department of Water and Power Monday may result in more than 8,300 employees wondering, why are there two me's? The lifted information included stats on active DWP employee's names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth and could result in a massive case of stolen identity. The gig is up for all......

"The surf was so big, no one was surfing here and the Pier was closed. Apparently, all the surfers were in Redondo," explains LAist Featured Photos contributer, Jake Rome, about yesterday's surf. LA Times: No big waves yesterday. We beg to differ. [LAist] Lure of waves draws many from workaday world [LA Times] The Day of Waves [Daily Breeze] Photo by jakerome via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr......

The LA Times is reporting this morning that "the big waves predicted for Southern California beaches failed to materialize Tuesday afternoon." Photographer Jonathan Alcorn, an LAist Featured Photos contributer on Flickr, shot these large waves yesterday in El Segundo at El Porto. These surfers seem to be riding waves in that 7-12 ft. range the Times predicted yesterday morning. Hrmmmmm? Yes, throughout the region waves were not as high as many hoped to be,......

- David Garcia, KNBC's environmental reporter died of liver failure yesterday in Palm Desert at 63. Adios, Earthman! - KNBC - If you are an illegal alien and you got pulled over, and the LAPD discovered that you didn't have a drivers license, your car would be immediately impounded. That practice might be illegal, somehow, so the LAPD are stopping that. The Sheriff's Dept., however, is a different story - LAT - Frisco man......

- EMI announces that it will offer MP3s on iTunes without the dreaded DRM and a blogosphere rejoices - boingboing - Two bald eagle chicks were born on Catalina Island over the weekend - Daily Breeze - Beverly Hills Unified School District gets nearly $1 million for accepting 159 students into Beverly Hills High who don't live in the district, but are enrolled under a diversity program. Only problem, most of those being brought......

- Mack Reed steps down from LA Voice, hands over the reigns to two new editors, Ryan Knoll and Scott Schmidt. Congratulations, Mack for your years of dedication and great blogging - LA Voice - Ozzfest will be free this year, and it will kick off in LA - Ozzfest - LAPD's story is different than witnesses stories in the death of a 31 yr old who some say was beaten while handcuffed -......

- Jeffrey Brett Goodin, an Azusa man who was found guilty Friday of sending emails to people to "update their AOL account," might get 101 years in the federal pen for "phishing" - Daily Bulletin - Snow in Malibu still wont slow drivers on the PCH - Daily Breeze - Lindsay Lohan checks into rehab even though she hasn't called anyone a dirty Jew - AP - First commercial jet with anti-missile technology leaves......

- Bono checked out two burlesque sets at Ivan Kane's Royal Jelly this week - Net Music Countdown - Jason Schmidt to the Dodgers, best signing all winter? - Fox Sports - How to turn forgotten election signs into anti-government freeway signs - Freeway Blogger - LA Councilman stands on the corner of Venice & Lincoln to shout out traffic cures - Daily Breeze - Spike Lee to direct film about the '92 LA......

- "It turns out Silly String is a great way to find the micro-thin tripwires that set off improvised explosive devices, a constant killer in Iraq." - NJ.com - Daily Breeze to be bought for $25 million by Hearst and sold to Dean Singleton - LA Observed - LA Sparks sold for $10 million to two season-ticket holders - MSNBC - East LA considers cityhood since it's "internationally known" - Azatlan News - USC......

Stock up on Doritos before New Year's, LA, because there's a man who's planning on rolling and smoking a three foot jay on December 31, which means there are going to be some people with the world's largest case of munchies soon afterwards. Brett Stone, the brains behind DaBronx News, a website that claims to contain "All the 'dope' on marijuana in the news", recently heard about a group of Dutch pot smokers who......

- Hey it's Adoption Saturday, so go downtown, and... well... we think they want us to adopt today - Met News - Dude who said he should have been in the plane that crashed with Yankees pitcher Lidle in NY crashes in Big Bear - Daily Bulletin - Wait, the Victoria's Secret models were in town and we were busy worrying about kids getting tased in a library?!?! - CBS - Dudes who arent......

- Marc Brown always seemed a little shady to me - Defamer - Cheney doesn't think that waterboarding is torture, therefore waterboard-away fellas! - McClatchy - MVP Pujols is a surly bitch - Chicago Tribune - Human Rights group fires employee for outting child predator Foley - NTY - ABC political director agrees with Bill O'Reilly that the "media" has a "liberal bias" - ThinkProgress - Why won't Dems back Angelides - Daily Breeze......

$18,000 worth of City Hall-sponsored Happy Endings - LA Observed Five spoilerish "teases" for this season's Lost - E! Nevada religious leaders behind new NV pot legalization - Las Vegas Sun Safe Surrender bill vetoed by Governator; cold feet moms only have 72 hours to drop off unwanted babes, not 30 days - Mayor Sam Griffith Observatory to re-open in one month - Daily Breeze Homeless no more! Sleep on Skid Row streets in......

I'm glad to see that the trial of 89-year-old George Russell Weller is finally getting underway. Like a lot of people you might be asking, who's George Weller? Though he hasn't gained the notoriety he so richly deserves, he's the genius who plowed his Buick LeSabre through the Santa Monica Farmers' Market killing 10 people and injuring 60 others in July 2003. I'm not normally a hang-'em high kind of gal, but there's something......

Dahm, who is a triplet, was accompanied by her bridesmaid sisters Jocelyn and Nicole, while Dr. Phil served as his son's best man. - hollywood.com A pair of Los Angeles transit buses collided today near a downtown parking structure, injuring 11 people, including two seriously, authorities said. - Daily Breeze To hype her forthcoming debut album, Paris, Paris Hilton will be making a few in-store appearances to meet and greet fans. - IGN Supernova,......

Flights into Los Angeles International Airport were disrupted this morning after an instrument landing system failed on one of the airport's runways, authorities said. - LA Times The Los Angeles Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating 19-year-old Jessica Edwards, who is autistic and has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old child. - LAPD Blog Hospitals in Los Angeles County overall lag behind the statewide average when it comes to in-hospital......

We all handled this business of Shaq winning the championship with the Heat thing differently. LAist wrote an open letter to Kobe. Some readers of the LAist told us where we could stick our open letter to Kobe. LA City Nerd however chose to count the lakes of LA - since the Laker name comes from the fact that the team came here from Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Lakes. This is why people......

Anaheim Mighty Ducks destroy the best two things going for themselves: their name and their logo. "Smoke and cash spewing from the windows of a car in north Torrance was police officers' first clue that something was amiss Thursday." - Daily Breeze Sherman Oaks' own American Idol Katherine McPhee tells People magazine that she used to throw up seven times a day - Daily News LA's best weatherman? Fritz, Dallas, Johnny Mountain? We say......

+ Neither Nicole nor Paris fared well with the GoFugYourself gals on Tuesday's Sidekick3 red carpet in front of the Palladium + Speaking of the Sidekick party, the world's greatest party photographer, LA's own Cobra Snake, has an incredible gallery of pics from the bash -- including snaps of Mike Tyson, Paris Hilton, and a nice girl waiting for someone to slide with her. We'll be her slidekick. And hey look they even had a......

Liquid Nitrogen + Hotel Swimming Pool + Nerds = oooooooo - via Boing Boing Victoria Silvstedt and her new boyfriend reallllly love each other Tom Petty has a new single with an infectious Bo Diddley riff and is called "Saving Grace". click to stream - via stereogum University researchers claim that the drugs salmeterol or formoterol found in three common inhalers might be responsible for four out of five U.S. asthma-related deaths per year......

John Klima of The Daily Breeze today said it all: They sent Jered Weaver, the rookie right-hander who won all four of his decisions and posted a 1.37 ERA, helping to stabilize the pitching staff of the last-place team in the AL West, to triple-A Salt Lake.LAist wonders, why wasn't it brother Jeff Weaver, with his sorry-ass 3-9 record and who gave up a team-leading 17 home runs. Dudes it was JEFF Weaver who's......

as far as El Segundo - Despite high gas prices, the RV park at Dockweiler State Beach was booked solid for the holiday weekend. RV owners there told the Daily Breeze that their recreational vehicles get about 8 miles per gallon. to W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N - 14-year-old David Pruden, a student at Placertia Junior High School, will be heading to Washington to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee this week — it will be on......

shredding moms Yesterday moms in Laguna Niguel skated a bowl in a mothers' day fundraiser. "Kids are proud to have a nonconforming parent," the LA Times writes, which puts a nail in the skating-as-rebellion coffin for us. Wait, we hear more banging — it's 35-year-old mother Jenny Sparks, who tells the paper: "Skateboarding is the new Jenny Craig." immigration numbers An AP report in the Daily Breeze says that it's going to be hard......

Today's Daily Breeze has a feature story on Mary Geiser, an 88-year-old Torrance crochet fiend. In two years, Mary has crocheted more than 900 caps for orphans, cancer patients, the homeless and US troops in chilly places like Afghanistan. But crocheting, of course, isn't just for grannies anymore. Crocheting, knitting and other crafty pursuits have been reclaimed by the young and rebellious and are all over the blogsphere. We're particularly charmed by Crazy Aunt......