Emma G. Gallegos

The body of a USC student who went missing 11 days ago was found floating in a river channel this week. Elgin Stafford was a 23-year-old USC graduate student working on a master's degree in public policy when he went missing from his home in Carson on March 20.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, scientists study how our brain reacts to Jennifer Aniston, that SAG/AFTRA merger went through and a former local altweekly intern made it big in Houston. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

Tonight the Month of Photography in Los Angeles kicks off (in case you were having withdrawals from the end of Pacific Standard Time!).

When Judge Stephanie Sautner officially announced that Lindsay Lohan was done with probation, the person the starlet first turned to, hugged and thanked profusely was none other than her attorney Shawn Holley.

The small Riverside County city of Murrieta is considering a new proposal that would make it expensive to get emergency medical crews out to a 9-1-1 call. Residents would be faced with paying $350 every time they called 9-1-1 hoping to bring out an emergency crew to get medical attention.

Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics). Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

Last night the organizers of L.A.'s 1st-ever Beerathon let us know that the event had been called off thanks to regulations from the state of California prohibiting free beer. Well, it's a little bit more complicated than that.

Were you excited to test your endurance at L.A.'s 1st-ever Beerathon by trying 26 beers at 26 bars in downtown Los Angeles this Saturday?Too bad!

A former McDonald's worker says that her job serving up chicken with ranch led to her working at the brothel Chicken Ranch. Shelley Lynn filed a lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles this week claiming that her job at a McDonald's set her on the road to prostitution.

Like many ralliers and even legislators around the country, San Fernando Valley assemblyman Bob Blumenfield wore a hoodie this week.

A man was nearly killed after he fell into a rock crusher in Irvine today. The worker somehow got ensnared in a conveyor belt that hurled him into a rock shaker.

Barbie is going to be going bald for children with cancer (and other diseases that cause baldness) thanks to the efforts of a local mom who petitioned Mattel. Lancaster resident Rebecca Sypin's daughter lost her hair while undergoing treatments for leukemia, so she and another friend of hers who had cancer Jane Bingham in New Jersey decided to launch a Facebook campaign.