Photo by Here in Van Nuys via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency is testifying to a Congress panel that he was not pressured into shutting down California's attempts to create its own global-warming laws: "It was Johnson's first appearance on Capitol Hill since he acted last month, and he drew the ire of not only Boxer, his usual critic, but other Democratic senators whose states......

- If you're looking for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in LA public libraries, you will be sorely disappointed - LAT - Right now Eddie Van Halen is in rehab - TMZ - The USC football lockerroom is colorless, says black Trojan running backs and special teams coach Todd McNair, who dubbed the kickoff team The White Nation, and calls the other black coaches Brojans. Controversy brewed yesterday when one of the students created......

- LAPD cruisers might get cameras. - From the "it couldn't happen to a nicer guy" file: Suge Knight is broke phi broke. - LA Observed reports that Villaraigosa isn't happy to receive all types of civil disobedience. - Tonight's Clippers game is a first round playoff preview with the Nuggets and, more than that, home court advantage might be on the line. By the way, the Nuggets's Carmelo Anthony was the western conference......

The wrongful death case brought against the City of Los Angeles by the family of Christopher Wallace (Biggie Smalls) began yesterday with jury selection and opening statements but it is looking less and less likely that any sense of what really happened will come out of the case. Many of the witnesses key to the family's case are now claiming amnesia, hearsay and other problems that undermine their testimony. The family's lawyers say that......

If reports from Defamer.com's Hollywood Privacy Watch (TM) are true, Suge Knight may have been strutting around Koi like he owned the room on Thursday night, but come next Wednesday he'll be minus one asset when the IRS sells the Beverly Hills headquarters of Death Row Records, a rap label Knight founded before heading off to prison for parole violations in 1996. The Los Angeles Business Journal gives us the scoop: The building at......

The new CityBeat features a long interview with rapper Kurupt on his new gig as the top A&R man for Tha Row records. Tha Row - formerly known as Death Row - rose to world fame on the rhymes of artists like Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Doggy Dogg. He'll be teaming up with infamous rap kingpin Suge Knight, who was recently released from prison after his latest probation violation. Kurupt, renowned for......