Actress Blake Lively was granted a temporary restraining order against an allegedly obsessed fan today by a Los Angeles judge. Sergei Mifle allegedly paid Lively visits to the set of her show "Gossip Girl," as well as contacted the 24-year-old star's 64-year-old mother on numerous occasions. more ›

Playboy Playmate Claire Sinclair is seeking a restraining order against Hugh Hefner's son, Martson Hefner, after the younger Hef -- Sinclair's on-and-off boyfriend of a year and a half -- allegedly beat her at their home in Pasadena on Sunday night. more ›

Robert Casteel, the dad of fourth-grader at a Riverside elementary school, decided to take out a restraining order against one of his 10-year-old son's classmates after the boy pulled out a knife and told his son that he was going to hurt him after school, reports KTLA. more ›

Although the city council passed a resolution supporting a peaceful protest, organizers have sought a temporary restraining order so that police cannot evict the protesters camped out on City Hall's lawn without notice. more ›

Actress and pop singer Selena Gomez, 19, says she has been living in "extreme fear" of a mentally ill man she says is stalking her. A judge has granted the Disney channel star a temporary restraining order against Thomas Brodnicki, 46, according to ABC7. Gomez says Brodnicki has threatened to kill her. more ›

Yesterday evening, a broadcaster at LA's KNX 1070 remarked on air that it took a major world news event to bump Charlie Sheen and his scene-stealing antics off the front pages. But for those who clamor for more #winning reports from the realm of the troubled/triumphant actor, you shall not hunger. Here's your basic primer on the current status of Charlie Sheen('s career). more ›

It only took a few hours for the "new owners" of what was The Must to clear out the furnishings and stock from the property this weekend, but it will take much, much longer for the fate of the Downtown wine bar to be decided. Those decisions are largely in the hands of the law, according to Blogdowntown, who have been following the saga closely. more ›

It's big business when a celebrity dies--not just for the memorabilia hawkers, the slap-dash t-shirt makers, or the TV documentarians, but because the late celeb's business keeps local civil courts busy. more ›

Detectives working the case of murdered lawyer Jeffrey Tidus are looking into a 2005 case wherein the slain attorney had "obtained a restraining order against a litigant who allegedly had threatened him," the LA Times is reporting. Tidus was shot outside his elegant Rolling Hills Estates home Monday evening, and the pattern of evidence as well as Tidus' personal and professional life presented immediate uncertainty regarding suspects and motive. more ›

Do you know which way onshore and offshore winds are going? The confusing nature of the subject has one local professor frustrated with KNBC's weatherman, Fritz Coleman. "Melanie Patton Renfrew, a Harbor College teacher, wants KNBC-TV's Fritz Coleman to change references to onshore and offshore winds. She says the terms are confusing because people don't know which are coming and which are going," reported the Associated Press. Apparently, Renfrew's insistence on the terminology has been bizarre, leaving Coleman in fear of his safety. A restraining order was put in place in March 2008, but she allegedly ignored it, which may end in jail time. A Burbank City Attorney said if Renfrew leaves Coleman alone through next August, the case will be dismissed. And in case you were wondering, "a sea-breeze originates over the ocean and blows onshore to land. The opposite is true for a land-breeze. It originates over the land and blows offshore to the ocean." more ›