Callie Miller

LAPD officers in anti-gang units are choosing to work regular patrol shifts instead of keeping their anti-gang assignments because they don't want to reveal their personal financial information - a strict requirement under the anti-corruption rules set up in the wake of the Rampart scandal in the 90's, according to CBS News. Instead of filling in financial disclosure forms due at the end of March, officers are choosing other assignments now

In response to the overwhelming offers of support for the family of Los Angeles Dodgers scout John Green after the tragic death of their daughter Christina in Saturday's gruesome attack on Gabrielle Giffords in Tuscon, the Dodgers have created a special email address (greenfamily@dodgers.com) where family, friends and Angelenos can send their thoughts and condolences. The Green family has also created a charitable memorial fund to honor the memory of their daughter. You can...

Photo by dreamyshade via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr After his friend Yao Lu was struck by a car while crossing Reseda Boulevard at Vincennes Streat near CSUN, Andreas Lazaris was angry enough to make sure the same fate didn't meet future students trying to cross the street. Lazaris contacted Councilman Greig Smith's office last February about adding a traffic light and as of yesterday, the new signal is in place, according...

Photo by Mark Luethi via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Planning to open a small business this year? If you live in L.A., you're in the right place. New federal data shows that Los Angeles ranks second nationally with 339,782 private sector businesses and that the vast majority of those businesses had 99 or fewer employees, making it quite the small business mecca, according to Biz Journals. New York City led the...

Huntington Beach police are warning surfers not to do the typical "leave your keys under the grill of your car" thing before they hit the water, because a smart burglar has been finding the secret key stash spots, taking wallets, iPods and other property out of vehicles, then returning the keys to the "hiding spot," according to OrangeCounty.com. Police believe a string of recent surfer-car-theft is linked to the same man, described as a...

Images of suspects courtesy Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Following the disturbing reports of a tipster-provided DVD that contained 100 hours of video footage showing disabled women in diapers being sexually assaulted, police have identified two of the suspects in the video because they were recognized in connection with other investigations one of which was for sexual assault, according to KTLA. One suspect, seen in the video footage in a wheelchair and removing his...

144,000 pounds of frozen tamales made and sold in California by Homestead Pasta Company have been recalled after the dairy allergen whey was found in the tamales but was not listed on the packages. The products recalled include the Garibaldi Beef Tamale, the Garibaldi Turkey Tamale, The Golden West Traditional Beef Tamale with Sauce in Husk, the Golden West Traditional Turkey Tamale with Sauce in Husk and the Casper Beef and Casper Chicken Tamales....

Roughly 25.7 million tourists photo-snapped, food-spotted and Star-toured it through Los Angeles last year, up from 23.8 million in 2009. Yet of all the domestic and international visitors that spent a combined $13.1 billion on hotels, restaurants and theme parks in 2010, most came from Australia. That's a first, according to the Daily Breeze. Why are Aussies flocking to our shores? Though we'd like to think it's for our culture and our food and our uniquely LA vibe, we suspect it's not for our beaches.

A winning lottery ticket in the amount of $340,608 was purchased two months ago from Al's Market in Westminster yet the winner has not yet stepped forward to bask in lotto winning glory, according to LA Now. The ticket matched five of six numbers missing the "mega number" 43, but $340k is nothing to shake a stick at so folks are wondering where the winner may be and the California Lottery is asking all...

Weeks after the alleged attack on staff, Lindsay Lohan is set to maybe, possibly, sometime this week leave rehab. We'd say "for good" but...well. Lohan took to her neglected Twitter account Saturday and quoted Mahatma Ghandi: "The future depends on what we do in the present." The Chronicle thinks she's leaving today, Just Jared thought she was leaving on Tuesday, and WaPo thinks she's extending until the weekend to "get additional treatment." It's not...

Zsa Zsa Gabor was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center last night to have part of her leg amputated, according to LA Now. She suffered from complications to a lesion on her leg for awhile and doctors made the decision to remove part of her leg to prevent gangrene from setting in, which would have posed a more serious health threat. Gabor had a hip replaced in July after falling in her home...

A home-invasion suspect was fatally shot by LAPD last night, a second suspect was arrested and five adults were found bound inside the "ransacked" home, according to LA Now. Police entered a residence in the 8700 block of McKinley Avenue in South LA and found a man armed with a Tec-9 pistol escaping out the back door. An officer shot the suspect, who died later at the hospital. Of the five residents that were...