Some passengers aboard a Southwest flight from Los Angeles had a less-than-smooth arrival this morning in Denver. Flight 792 managed to knock over a light pole on its way to the gate, say airport officials in the Mile-High City, reports TheDenverChannel.com. more ›

Maybe someone in the Department of Finance didn't get the memo: The California State Budget was supposed to be kept under wraps until next Tuesday, but since it was accidentally already posted online, they're going to publish it ahead of schedule this afternoon. more ›

Pittsburgh Steelers player Hines Ward has been spending his time in Los Angeles under the flashing lights of the "Dancing With the Stars," set, but early this morning the flashing lights came from a Los Angeles Police Department squad car. The LAPD pulled over the vehicle in which Hines was a passenger, and wound up cuffing the athlete and TV dance-testant at gunpoint, explains TMZ. more ›

In case you are still expected to put in your day's or shift's worth of toil and strife tomorrow, don't plan on using Metrolink for the commute--they, too, are taking the day off. The official word, via official press release:

Due to the Labor Day* holiday, Metrolink trains will not**, May 31, 2010. Regular commuter service will resume on operate on Monday Tuesday, June 1. On this Memorial Day holiday weekend, Metrolink wishes to pause to remember the men and women who have bravely served and died for the cause of our freedom, and for the freedom of people the world over.***

Sounds like a tame enough idea: Print up some t-shirts with the school mascot running and make a slogan out of one of those 800 numbers that uses words instead of digits. Only one of the parents from Linda Vista Elementary School in Yorba Linda decided to give the presumably made-up number a whirl and found that number was something else entirely, according to the Pasadena Star-News... more ›

Remember that public art work that was installed for the California Biennial in Culver City last week? Street maintenance crews accidently took it away yesterday thinking it was construction materials left on the sidewalk after someone called to complain. Luckily, it wasn't thrown in the trash as they're reinstalling it this afternoon. more ›

Deborah Stokol sent us photos and her eyewitness account of a BMW so moved by the wet surface of Manning Av. in Cheviot Hills that it took out the sign post. Only the Beemer was hurt:

A woman lost control of her vehicle while driving on the rain slicked roads of Cheviot Hills Thursday 3:30 p.m. and plowed straight into a street sign, causing it to collapse in full onto her car, her husband Verapsong Chitaphony reported. more ›