Police are continuing their hunt today for two men dressed as ninjas who robbed a medical marijuana delivery man in West Covina on Friday. The man was returning to his vehicle post-pot drop-off around 9:45pm when the two suspects - armed not with swords, but batons - approached him in the 800 block of South Sunset Avenue. more ›

West Covina city officials are pissed that a film crew managed to convince its city employees to let them use patrol cars and police uniforms to make a dark spoof about police harassment that went viral and was featured on Funny or Die. more ›

Nick Aaronson, a 33-year-old US Airways flight attendant, was found dead in his hotel room during a layover in Mexico City on Saturday morning. Aaronson, who was based in Phoenix, grew up in West Covina. He was discovered naked and beaten on the floor with his hands tied behind his back. more ›

Two years after the economy took a nosedive and her brother was killed, homeowner Rose Gudiel says she still hasn't gotten the help that she was looking for to make payments on her home. She, her mother and community activists have been protesting the bank's decision to evict her, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. more ›

A male thief in West Covina foiled his own mission on Monday, grabbing the wrong bag in a petty theft attempt. Instead of nabbing a woman's purse, he darted away with her lunch. According to West Covina police Lt. Tommy Garcia, the robber approached the 49-year-old woman with a small-caliber gun. more ›

Facing massive budget deficits, some Southern California cities are unable to raise the money necessary to represent with a float in the 2012 Rose Parade. more ›

Judge Lance Ito of O.J. Simpson trial fame, presided over a mock trial in West Covina on Thursday in the case of The People of Monte Vista Elementary v. Goldilocks. The blonde-haired defendant faced five charges including burglary, unauthorized credit card use, vandalism and theft of porridge, reports the Whittier Daily News. more ›

Like the bears in Yosemite, shopping center thieves in Los Angeles are especially prolific in their pursuit of stealing goodies from your car. Sometimes they steal the car itself. With this phenomenon on the rise at holiday time, CBS ranked 50 malls and shopping centers in Southern California for vehicle thefts and burglaries. more ›

Police aren't taking a vacation this Fourth of July weekend. In fact, more plan to be on the roads watching out for the overly inebriated. Case in point, the California Highway Patrol this weekend will begin a Maximum Enforcement Period at 6:01 p.m., meaning all available officers will be out on the roads through midnight on Monday. more ›

Not everyone loves a car chase. In fact, many police departments around the nation, including here in Southern California, where our expansive freeway system is the frequent scene of police pursuits, are making revisions to their guidelines for when and how to conduct vehicle pursuits of suspects, reports the Star-News. more ›

A 34-year-old chimpanzee that was raised in a West Covina family's home for three decades escaped from a wildlife sanctuary in San Bernardino County Friday night. more ›

When it comes to crime, cops call one piece of evidence "gold." And that one bit of information that really can expedite an investigation is a license plate number. If you see something happen and it doesn't endanger yourself, take note of license plate numbers. more ›

• As was reported today on LAist, the writer's strike, which cost the city about $1 billion, is nearly over. We all know how involved Mayor V has been nudging the two sides back together. Oh, wait. But at least he weighed in today: "This agreement is a blockbuster for the Los Angeles economy. It will put thousands of writers, set designers, caterers, and behind-the-scenes workers back on the job this week." Blockbuster! HA!
• Election central: Barack Obama added a Grammy to his momentous weekend and Hillary Clinton sacked her campaign manager today. Obama won the award for his oratorically smooth stylins, reading Audacity of Hope and Clinton announced today that she replaced her campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with longtime aide Maggie Williams in what has had to be a long weekend for beset by four resounding primary and caucus wins by Obama in Washington, Maine, Louisiana and Nebraska.
• The rest of the Grammy winners can be found here and you'll be happy to know that Jimmy Sturr And His Orchestra took the prize for best polka album.
• Is Scientology a cult? Blogging.la found a few Anonymous people who might think so at a demonstration outside the L. Ron Hubbard center on Sunset today.
• A week after a plane crashed into the mountains near Banning Pass, rescuers reported Sunday that they have found the plane more than 11 miles from the site where it was originally reported missing. The fate of all four people on the plane is still unknown.
• Six kids and three adults from southern California fell ill today in D.C., where the group of students from West Covina and their chaperone's were visiting the White House. Insert [Bush Makes Me Sick, Too] joke here.
• From the turnabout is fair play department: A former Internal Revenue Service officer working as a tax preparer in Inglewood has been arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud the government by filing false tax returns. How big of an economic stimulus check do you think he's getting?

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Remember that car chase scene in "The Da Vinci Code?" Yeah, that car chase is coming to an LA near you. Last Thursday, the weekly LA Green Drinks was hosted at The Smart Car House in Venice. We get an introduction to the Smart Car and learn that the first Smart Car dealerships in Los Angeles will be in North Hollywood, Beverly Hills, West Covina, Riverside and Laguna Niguel. The smart house at 1319... more ›

Happy Summer Solstice! Summer is finally here. It's time to chill out, take a vacation, sit on the beach and get lost in a good book. Angelenos are lucky to have so many literary choices and librarians like Eileen Ybarra, a young adult librarian at the Los Angeles Central Library, to guide our tastes. As Eileen notes below, the library is still one of the best places to access information, preserve free speech and celebrate the life of the mind. more ›