Callie Miller

Photo by denisetaylor via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr As Angelenos, we complain about LA traffic and talk regularly about a future with fast, affordable mass transit. We encourage carpooling, bicycling, ridesharing, walking. Yet, when it comes to ditching our cars in favor of a high-speed rail system that could help alleviate many of our daily (and environmental) concerns, are we all talk or is LA ready to embrace a solution?...

An officer responding to a domestic dispute call in Simi Valley arrived to find an armed man in the middle of the street and the office opened fire, according to KTLA News. The armed suspect was shot and pronounced dead at the scene. It remains unclear if the man in the street was connected to the disturbance call that brought police to the area in the first place. Neighbors and witnesses report hearing shots,...

View Los Angeles Outdoor Holiday Ice Skating Rinks in a larger map We might be back to 75 degree temperatures, but that hasn't stopped LA neighborhoods from pushing us into holiday season kicking and...skating. The annual ice rinks are ready and it's time for you to lace up those skates, slide ever-so-tentatively out onto that ice, and try not to fall and crack your head open while celebrating that "winter" is here....

File this under times when it's very smart to "just say no": Francisco Hernandez, 22, has been arrested for allegedly attempting to run his just-proposed-to-girlfriend over with his car, according to KTLA News. His now-ex-girlfriend was walking along a sidewalk and narrowly escaped injury as Hernandez's car jumped a curb, drove over a sidewalk, went through the bushes, landed in a parking lot and suffered two flat tires. Hernandez is being held on $30,000...

Photo by foodforfel via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr In the wake of the Happy Meal Ban in San Francisco that requires McDonald's and other fast-food chains to reduce calorie counts and sodium levels in all meals that come with free toys and a statewide law that requires major chain restaurants to list calorie counts on menus starting in 2011, LA plans to revisit and enhance its own restrictions on fast-food chains...

With its lease set to expire in December, the Barnes & Noble bookstore in the Encino Marketplace will be replaced by higher-paying tenant CVS Pharmacy, and residents protested yesterday to share their frustration, the Encino Patch reports....

The remains of Lynsie Ekelund, a college student who vanished Feb 17, 2001 after a night out with friends in San Diego, have been positively identified after a two-day dig in a remote area near Santa Clarita, according to the LA Times. Christopher McAmis, Ekelund's assailant who claimed for years he was not responsible for the crime, confessed earlier this month to attempted rape and strangulation. McAmis led police to the dig site where...

Photo by Plankton 4:20 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The American Psychological Association's just-completed "Stress in America" study finds that Los Angeles residents are the most stressed residents in the entire country. Not New Yorkers. Not Chicagoans. Not Bostonians. Despite our temperate climate (no long dark winters here), Angelenos report that our stress about money and the economy is higher than the national average at a time when our job satisfaction...

Photo by TooMuchFire via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's just-launched fake-apps iPhone app lets you Relax with Axl Rose and determine if you are in Moldova with a simple Yes/No. Handy, that.Wither the Pacific Hastings Theater in Pasadena? Set to become a gym?A 14-year-old Long Beach girl is reunited with her family after a week-long absence....

LAPD is asking for public help in locating a suspect wanted for robbing two electronic stores on two different dates. The first robbery took place on September 30 at 7:15 p.m. at a store located in the 11200 block of National Blvd. The suspect used bolt cutters to cut a metal chain attached to a laptop on display, then threatened the store clerk with the bolt cutters when confronted. The suspect fled the scene on...