LA Update, a daily weekday update on what's going on at City Hall (aired on Channel 35) reported today a common fact still needing to be addressed: healthy grocery stores are harder to come by in lower income parts of the city. "A newly released report urges Los Angeles city leaders to encourage major grocery chains to open the same quality stores in low income communities. The Alliance for Healthy and Responsible Grocery Stores report......

Fresh & Easy opened its 62nd US "neighborhood market" this morning in Manhattan Beach which began with a press conference and store tours and a ribbon cutting ceremony before the waiting crowds descended upon the grocery store to fill their carts. (More story after the jump!)......

Photo by Try Hank via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The "severely decomposed" body of an infant has been found in Santa Ana. An area resident saw a dog playing with something unusual, which turned out to be the baby, whose body has been taken to the Orange County coroner's office for an autopsy. Police may now be ruling yesterday's 101 freeway death a suicide, reports the Daily News. Initial reports intimated......

Did you know that February is Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month? It's not exactly a holiday, but it is a month-long campaign to get the carts off our sidewalks and apartment buildings and back to the stores to which they belong. For some reason, the wikiHow (a how-to wiki resource) provides instructions on how to observe the festivities ("1. Return your cart to a designated 'cart rack' or aisle. These can be......

Not only is February Call Your East Coast Friends To Tell Them What The Weather's Like Here Month, but thanks to this post on Metafilter, we learn that it's also Return Shopping Carts Month. Although we can understand that stolen and missing shopping carts can cost supermarkets a pretty penny (which gets passed on to the consumer), does Vons really think that we're going to rustle up random carts and haul them into our......