Brrrrrrrrr... did you enjoy cuddling under your blankets last night during that blast of cold weather? Don't forget that it snowed in Los Angeles less than a year ago (and will SCV be so lucky?). Maybe this is Los Angeles' way of saying hello to Beckham with a little frosty cold treat. We're enjoying it. After all, some of us are transplants. Besides the top stories that you probably already know by now, A.M.... more ›

A cool half mil: the median LA home price scooted up to $506,000 in March. This is how that works: more ›

Rioting continued yesterday in the LA County jails in Castaic. The LA Times reports more than 500 inmates were involved, nearly 100 were injured and 28 had to be hospitalized. more ›

There's a cynical news saying: If it bleeds, it leads. Well, there was lots of blood in the news yesterday and the stories aren't going anywhere. In case you need to catch up: more ›

Early in the morning of February 6, Devin Brown, 13, and a friend, 14, stole a 1990 Toyota Camry and went driving around South LA when the LAPD began to follow the car, which they observed as driving erratically. The car didn't stop when the police turned on their lights, and a 3-minute chase ensued. The car ran a red light and drove up on the sidewalk; the passenger got out and ran, the driver tried to back up. A police offer shot into the car, killing Devin Brown in the driver's seat. Reports said he backed up toward the cops, but an LAPD reenactment showed the police officer was in fact standing next to the vehicle when he started shooting. more ›

We were looking for a counterpoint to "Jack Dunphy's" assertion in The Times earlier this week that the paper was biased against the LAPD and that it was particularly telling in their coverage of the Devin Brown shooting. Dunphy presents an interesting case but his own desire to be "fair and balanced" in his critique of the Times seems to do his point a disservice. more ›

What kind of Southern California is this? Since July 1st, we've had over 25 inches of rain. Over two feet! This current storm is expected to drop another three inches on us over the long President's Day weekend. Watching local news this morning, we know that traffic accidents have already been caused. Maybe we'll just stay in today. more ›

Those crazy meteorologists keep saying the rain is coming but it's sunny right now so we're just going to ignore them. Besides that, this week the only things we're more obsessed with than "American Idol" and "Project Runway" is crime. more ›

First, when we said it was going to rain yesterday, we kind of lied. We got some bad intel. The showers are now not expected until tomorrow. We also should probably apologize to Seattlest for the crack we made about them and rain. This season, we have twice the waterfall as our northern friends so we'll just shut up about all that. more ›

While we only watched a little bit of the Grammys last night, all the local papers lede with the results of the Awards ceremony. The Daily News notes that Ray Charles was the night's big winner with 8 post-humous awards while The Los Angeles Times's Robert Hilburn wonders if the accolades aren't just a little too late for a man whose most creative and significant years were decades ago. more ›

Much like the New England Patriots, Taft High School seems like a team of destiny. The two time national Academic Decathlon champions have won the district tournament and move one step closer to another national championship. Their win comes on the same day that Governor Schwarzenegger called for the breaking up of LAUSD while throwing his support in the Mayoral race to Bob Hertzberg. more ›

We're all cops all the time this morning as the shooting of 13-year-old Devin Brown continues to be the main focus of the city. Both The Daily News and the Los Angeles Times (and a host of other news outlets) cover the press conference from yesterday that gave the LAPD's detailed version of events. Troy Anderson of The Daily News focuses on the FBI joining the case (while burying the fact that the FBI investigation is at Chief Bratton's request); The Times gives a more measured account of what was said and gives an extended profile of who Devin Brown was. more ›

We're not sure if The Daily News is just being sarcastic or out and out lying when the opening line of their lede story today calls President Bush's $2.37 trillion dollar budget proposal "lean". As Janet Hook explains in The Los Angeles Times, this budget "would be more than a third bigger than the 2001 budget he inherited four years ago". The Daily News does note that the budget plan heavily increases military funding while it cuts severely back on many domestic programs and that LA will be hit hard by those cuts. more ›