It was another rough and tumble night Thursday on the mean streets of Hollywood as performers dressed in costume outside the Kodak Theater became involved in a brawl. The fight involved a man dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise of films being pepper sprayed by another costumed character dressed as Catwoman. more ›

We all know by now to beware of Walmart shoppers on Black Friday, but it turns out Westside fitness nuts hitting the gym during the holidays are not safe from pepper spray. more ›

Sargent Lucien Daigle of the Los Angeles Police Department was charged today with felony first-degree burglary for allegedly breaking into a woman's home in the community of Mentone. more ›

The woman who pepper-sprayed other Walmart shoppers in Porter Ranch angling to get a Black Friday deal on an Xbox has lawyered up for a possible suit against Walmart. Now her lawyer is speaking out and offering up the pepper-sprayer's side of the story: she did it for the children. more ›

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office revealed today they will not seek charges against a woman who allegedly used pepper spray on her fellow shoppers at a Porter Ranch Wal-Mart during their Black Friday pre-sale event. more ›

Self-defense is just one of the possible motives detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department are considering to determine just why a woman used pepper spray to ward off fellow shoppers at the Porter Ranch Wal-Mart during their Black Friday pre-sale last Thursday night. more ›

Police might not seek any charges against a woman who pepper-sprayed Black Friday crowds at a Porter Ranch Walmart, bought an Xbox and left the store. more ›

The extreme competitive shopper who used pepper spray on other Porter Ranch Wal-Mart shoppers to guard the products on her Black Friday list turned herself in to authorities on Friday night. After injuring about 20 shoppers - including kids - around 10:20pm on Thursday during the store's Black Friday sale, the woman exited Wal-Mart with her purchased prize: an Xbox. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department are releasing more details about the woman suspected of fending off rival shoppers at a late night Wal-Mart door buster sale by using pepper spray. more ›

A woman looking to get access to more "door buster" sale items at the Porter Ranch Wal-Mart late last night used pepper spray on other customers to keep them away from the products she wanted. 20 people, including some kids, were hurt. more ›

On Saturday, hundreds of students gave their chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi the silent treatment for approving police action that left a line of peaceful demonstrators doused in pepper spray. more ›

Though we are not bandits, we do know that returning to the scene of a crime is usually two shoes into jail. Arlene Louise Bremner, a 43-year-old woman from Long Beach, should have consulted with us before robbing a Seal Beach surf shop on Tuesday. more ›

Police say they have arrested a Hawthorne man who pepper sprayed his kids when they tried to stop him from choking his wife, The Daily Breeze reports. The man Lakepa Tahi Fifita, 45, began choking his wife after they had an argument about finances. When his children asked him to stop, he asked one of them to fetch him a can of pepper spray, which he then turned on them. more ›

Waking up at 5:30 a.m. and being rushed out of your downtown Wilshire Grand hotel room is not the ideal experience for your Los Angeles stay. However, better safe than sorry when the 10th floor of at least 80 people was evacuated due to pepper spray being released. In an e-mail alert, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Ron Meyers said 20-30 people were evaluated with none needing treatment or transport to a local area hospital. People complained of eye and throat irritation. more ›

• Newly elected state speaker, a Democrat named Karen Bass who was raised in Los Angeles, has made friends on both sides of the aisle, the LA Times said. She is the first African-American to assume the top spot and has some pretty lofty goals, including providing healthcare and improving education. Wait, those are things EVERY politician should be doing.
• Of course, by now you know all about the L.A. Marathon. But you may not have heard that the Los Angeles Fire Department treated 73 participants; transporting 23 of them to area hospitals. None of the injuries were life-threatening, they said.
• What's one of the best part about Spring Training? Rumors! The Daily News reports that Nomar could play a "handful of games" at shortstop this season. Just four more weeks until Opening Day.
• The blood in my veins is Dodger Blue, but the color of my face when driving to games is sometimes red. So, I applaud the City Council for at least broaching the possibility of public transportation to Dodger Stadium late this week.\
• An El Segundo woman warded off an attacker last night with pepper spray as he pinned her to the ground straddling and fondling her. She reached for the pepper spray and ran away, gagging and coughing.
• But her weapon of choice would not have worked if she was a reporter at the Daily News. Yesterday, we told you that the Daily News laid off 22 staffers earlier in the week. Today, the list of the fireds was published. The deceased includes Alex Dobuzinskis, a great reporter who covered Glendale and Burbank and the News' lone Washington D.C. reporter.
• The newspaper business is not the only one hurting these days. Nearly 1,600 teachers could lose their jobs as Orange County's 28 school districts scramble to find ways to cut from their operating budgets amid a mounting state budget crisis.
• Is Hillary Clinton being subversively endorsed by Saturday Night Live? Last week, SNL feature a skit parodying the media's "love affair" with Barack Obama and last night, they had Clinton on the show getting two minutes of free campaign air time. SNL has not officially endorsed Clinton, but should media outlets allow candidates a free shot at advertising? If NBC allowed Obama two free minutes, don't you think the Clinton camp would be the ones needing a pillow?