Earlier this week, the LAPD announced one sobriety checkpoint taking place tonight in the Valley. This morning, they announced two more, one in Harbor area and another on the Westside. From 6:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., they will be on Avalon Boulevard between Opp Street and I Street in Wilmington and from 7:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. at Pacific Coast Highway and Temescal Canyon Road in Pacific Palisades. Stay safe out there.......

(AP Photo/Jose Fidelino Vera Hernandez) Police say that 28-year-old Juan Campos, allegedly of Brownsville, Texas, was apparently drunk and fell asleep when he crashed into a bicycle race near Matamoros, Mexico, which is near the U.S. border. At least one person was killed and 14 were injured. The 24-kilometer race, which took place on Sunday, had only started 15-minutes prior to the incident. (h/t Streetsblog LA)......

LAPD concluded that no crime was committed in the possible rape being investigated early this morning on USC's University Park Campus. We have no crime," said Los Angeles Police Department Officer April Harding of the Media Relations office. "The woman was interviewed and she admitted she was drinking and passed out. She was not raped." -- Fox The woman, a USC undergrad, was reported as passed out in a basement classroom around 3:30 a.m. by......

How does something like this happen? It happens when a sober person accidentally crashes into a drunk person."[Actor Gary Collins] was not at fault in the accident," [Officer] Harding said. "The other motorist failed to yield to oncoming traffic and collided with Collins' vehicle." The actor's sports utility vehicle subsequently crashed into two parked cars, Harding said. "Officers smelled alcohol on his breath and initiated a field sobriety test, which he failed," she said. Collins......

The results of the toxicological report on Mario Danelo were released today, and they revealed that the USC place kicker had a blood-alcohol level of 0.23 when he fell off the cliff to his death in San Pedro last month. Despite the fact that .23 is just about three times the legal limit, the coroner's office says it still can't determine why Danelo fell. Uh... With 89 points, the red-shirted 21-year-old junior led the......

Despite Metro's free service Christmas and New Year's Eve weekend (but really, how well was it advertised?), the holidays brought more drunk drivers to jail than last year, which may have been due to the increased LAPD presence on the road. “We arrested 135 drivers over the three-day Christmas weekend, and 184 over the New Year’s weekend. Unfortunately, not everyone is getting the message about driving responsibly,” said LAPD spokesman Lieutenant Paul Vernon. The modern......

A Drunken Spelling Bee. Wow. While we would like to thank the organizers of tonight's 4-Square Championships at the Met Theater downtown for including the brilliant concept of a "take a shot and then spell this word" battle in with their arguably more athletic festivities tonight, we've got some questions about the whole set-up: 1. Is there a study list for this, or are we on our own? 2. Is the word pronouncer going......