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Photo by Mark Luethi via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The annual Urban Mobility Report results are in and...whoa: on average, a driver in Los Angeles spends sixty-three hours wasting away in traffic delays. Just. Ouch. The news isn't all bad though: other cities have it worse and L.A. once topped the charts in traffic-delay rankings (we steering-wheel-tapped our way through 84 wasted hours on freeways in 2006.) According to the LA...

The two students who were arrested Tuesday for aiding the suspected gunman at Gardena High after his gun discharged and he fled from the classroom will not face charges, according to KTLA. A 16-year-old girl is believed to have taken the suspect's backpack and a 15-year-old boy is believed to have given the suspect his sweatshirt and money for bus fare to leave campus. The D.A. doesn't believe there is enough evidence to make...

Santa Ana police and Governor Jerry Brown's own security detail are taking the graffiti threats of killing Brown on Valentine's Day very seriously, according to LA Now. The first graffiti threat was discovered Thursday on a block wall on South Greenville Street near Alton Avenue. It includes a Nazi swastika and the phrase: "We gonna kill Gov. Brown 2/14/11" in black paint.

Image from Riding Bikes with the Dutch Trailer FILM The New Filmmakers Los Angeles will screen 14 short films tonight and you'd be crazy to miss it. The last film of the night is our top pick: show your bike-friendly love by attending the screening of Riding Bikes with the Dutch at Sunset Gower Studios. The film follows a Long Beach family as they travel to Amsterdam to experience how the Dutch use bikes...

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Photo by Greg Lilly Photos via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The Federal Aviation Administration has released information about "laser incidents" in 2010 and identified there were 108 such incidents at LAX in 2010, according to the Daily News. What, exactly, defines a "laser incident?" A laser being pointed at a plane that can temporarily blind pilots or permanently damage their eyesight. The FAA says that many of the laser-situations involve planes...

Photo by Tim Pearce, Los Gatos via Flickr The city of Glendale has agreed to pay $1.7 million to Edmond Ovasapyan after he was wrongly imprisoned during a murder investigation and was exonerated through DNA evidence, according to the Glendale News-Press. The settlement comes nearly a year after a jury determined last February that Ovasapyan should not have been held in prison for eight months while the DA's office reviewed the charges against him...

As of yesterday, hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid must allow all patients to decide upon visitation rights and who to entrust with making medical decisions on their behalf regardless of sexual orientation or identity, according to The Huffington Post. Brian Bond, White House deputy director of public engagement, said that "This policy impacts millions of LGBT Americans and their families. The President saw an injustice and felt very strongly about correcting this and has spoken about it often over the years."

Photo by GarySe7en via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Antonio Villaraigosa will be among 230 mayors introducing a civility accord today at the 79th Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C. and he's packed in quite a few meetings while he's in our nation's capitol, according to the Daily Breeze. His appearances include a news conference with fellow mayors and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. to support the Community Development Block Grants program, a...

An increased police presence will grace the halls of Gardena High School on what will be a difficult day for many students after yesterday's "accidental" shooting of two students, according to the Daily Breeze. Grief counselors will also be on campus to help students work through what they witnessed during the shooting and lockdown. The 17-year-old student who brought the gun to school in his backpack was arrested and booked for assault with a...