Callie Miller

A LAFD Ambulance | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist Remember that firefighter that was stabbed during a rescue at the Cecil Hotel last year, was hailed "Paremedic of the Year," and then questioned heavily after all the "hero" hoopla? LA Now reports that prosecutors will not bring charges of filing a false police report against him "due to the lack of sufficient evidence." Charles Anthony MacDougall, the city firefighter in question, was placed on administrative...

And the Charlie Sheen dramedy train continues to roll on at sad-bizarre-funny-weird speeds straight through Hollywood. Despite multiple sources confirming cocaine-bender rumors, LAPD says they "found no signs of illegal activity" at Sheen's home and won't be launching a criminal investigation. Now that Sheen is in rehab (at home) for the umpteenth time, his show Two and a Half Men has been forced into hiatus again and the crew is furious.

Los Angeles Coliseum commissioners will decide today if they will issue a permit for the Electric Daisy Carnival to return to the venue this June, according to ABC. The event was discontinued after 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez collapsed from an ecstasy overdose at last year's event and died days later at a local hospital. Her death resulted in a moratorium on raves for several months, but the rave ban was lifted last November. The Electric...

AEG has struck a naming rights deal with Farmers Insurance Exchange on the planned NFL stadium downtown that's worth $700 million over 30 years, according to ESPN Los Angeles. The deal means you may be flocking to see football games at "Farmers Field" but many hurdles remain before construction could begin on the newly named venue

Jeffrey Stenroos, the officer accused of faking his own shooting by claiming he was attacked by an assailant outside El Camino Real High School which set-off a wide and very expensive manhunt, is now saying his gun went off accidentally, according to LA Now. Stenroos gave police several contradictory statements about what went down that day, began behaving strangely after the faux shooting, and began avoiding the scheduling of an incident interview, which ultimately...

After two years of frustration and anger and concern over 6,000 untested rape kits that were reported in 2008, the backlog has finally been eliminated, according to CBS Los Angeles. Though the results from the last few hundred kits still need to be reviewed, the once mammoth-sized backlog is now down to zero.

Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed to Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center this morning and her condition is not known, according to LA Now. Just two weeks ago, Gabor had part of her right leg amputated and it is unclear if today's hospital emergency is related but her publicist has said she "fell ill this morning." Gabor is 93 and has been in and out of the hospital for months. Someone speaking on behalf of Gabor's...

Flights grounded at LAX due to "monster" East Coast/Midwest storm / Photo by tomms via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr If you're leaving our lovely sunny L.A. weather to go somewhere less sunny, you might want to check your flight before heading down to LAX. A massive winter storm on the East Coast and Midwest has forced thousands of flight cancellations and has stranded many would-be travelers at LAX, according to CBS...

L.A. schools are getting garden-friendly these days and King Middle School is the most recent campus to benefit from some green thumb goodness with the planting of 26 fruit trees, according to the Echo Park Patch. The trees were planted on Friday by volunteers from Friends of King Middle School, TreePeople and Disney VoluntEARS. Los Angeles City Councilmember Tom LaBonge was even on hand to celebrate the planting and pose for tree-education photos. In...

Two churches in Rowland Heights are part of a hate crime investigation after they were vandalized this weekend, according to KTLA. A Jehovah's Witness church at 19111 Killian Avenue was vandalized with graffiti on it's exterior walls that contained "offensive words, phrases and symbols" sometime between 10 p.m on Friday and before 6 a.m. on Saturday. The graffiti has since been removed and the details of the offensive writing haven't been released.