Andy Sternberg

example of proper chest bump (photo by thaths via flickr) Estancia High School English teacher Joel Ruben Flores filed a police report last weekend claiming he was assaulted by Costa Mesa Councilman Steve Mensinger after a confrontation following a community fun run. Mensinger countered on Monday by filing a complaint against Flores with the Newport-Mesa Unified School District over an altercation described by Flores to police as a "chest-bumping." Flores apparently aggravated Mensinger with...

Screenshot via KTLA Three male students were cited for felony vandalism and suspended from school after admitting their involvement in creating racist graffiti that was spotted last weekend on the grounds of Calabasas High School. While the trio of all 11th graders could face criminal charges, they will not face hate-crime charges related to the incident, according to officials who say the teenagers did not target a specific group. Indeed, in spite of the...

Reports of a bear sighting last Thursday in La Cañada Flintridge have been linked to a 911 call from a woman whose backyard chicken coop was raided by the bear. Four chickens were found dead. "It was horrifying," Wendy Blair of the 1700 block of Bonita Vista Drive told La Canada Flintridge Patch editor Donna Evans. "I banged my pots and pans and the bear took off, but I keep thinking it'll come back again."...

The robbery occurred around 2 p.m. when the victim returned to his car after eating at Veggie Grill at 2025 Wilshire in Santa Monica. His vehicle was then surrounded by the three suspects, who smashed in the windshield as well as the driver's-side and passenger-side windows. At least one of the masked suspects pointed a gun at the victim while a second grabbed a black case containing the jewelry on the passenger seat...

"We want candidate Obama back," said human rights activist and Grammy-award winning musician Serj Tankian before leading a gathering mostly Armenian-Americans outside Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City Thursday afternoon. As many as 1,500 community members participated in the protest, according to Asbarez.com. Reported crowd size varied from 500 to 2,000 according to the Daily News. MyFoxLA counted only 200 protesters. "Obama keep your promise," they chanted, referring to the president's campaign promise to...

"I don't know, Obama, he's older now. He used to look so fresh... exciting. I still have that poster, but I don't know." -- President Obama, paraphrasing Kool & the Gang in mocking the naysayers at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City on Thursday. There's a big upside to the traffic story this morning -- it's Good Friday and the freeways are relatively clear. UPDATE 9:30 a.m.: The president is now aboard Air Force One. Street closures lifted. We survived Obama Traffic Hell April 2011 (aka Obamageddon)!

Last weekend, John Belitsky and Dan Wuebben hailed a cab at LaGuardia Airport and asked the driver to take them to Los Angeles. It started out as somewhat of a dare when Belitsky's father, a former NYC cab driver, was certain nobody would be up to the task. Belitsky and Wuebben bought a camera and started a YouTube channel (NY2LAinacab) with the profile: "Heading from NYC to LA. In. a. cab. Follow us at...

A 17-year-old student at Millikan High was arrested Thursday after allegedly threatening violence in a series of Facebook posts. The boy threatened to harm a "small number" of classmates just a few days after friending them on the social network, according to Long Beach police.

Attorneys General in 15 states are lambasting Blast by Colt 45, a new, fruity malt beverage endorsed by Snoop Dogg. The drink's brightly colored cans and fruit flavors paired with a hip-hop marketing campaign will attract underage drinkers to what Illinois AG Lisa Madigan called a "binge-in-a-can."

Andrew Hyde gets around. The iPhone Tracker app confirms this. (Photo via flickr). Andrew Hyde sold all of his worldly possessions last August and began a trip around the world. He makes no secret of this -- its detailed on his website. We're well aware that personal information becomes vulnerable whenever we agree to the terms of service of yet another fun geo-location mobile app as it typically utilizes information from the phone's positioning...