About 90 people were displaced after a townhouse under construction caught on fire in Brentwood early this morning, reports KTLA. The fire started at about 3:30 a.m. in the12300 block of W. Gorham Avenue. Firefighters got the blaze under control within about an hour and a half, but the building was declared a knock down. more ›

Late this afternoon a man who "barricaded himself on the roof," of the W Hotel in Hollywood indicated via shouting that he had a bomb, according to KTLA. more ›

Do we need to say much more than that to give you a "ha!" and an "uhhhhh?" at the same time (now this should be the definition of interrobang)? Supposedly, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's were in the midst of a training exercise that included this bag of dummy explosives. But someone who wasn't supposed to get to them, got to them first and stole it. Metro stopped the Gold and Red Lines before hitting... more ›