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Emma G. Gallegos
Stories by Emma G. Gallegos
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A vengeful ex-roommate broke a window and threw a container of charcoal lighter fluid into a West Hollywood apartment early this morning before fleeing the scene.
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Get out so you can taste wine, join a book club or explore art in downtown and Exposition Park.
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Just because you don't have a job doesn't mean you qualify for unemployment checks. Take the case of convicted killer Anthony Garcia, who managed to collect more than $30,000 in unemployment while he was in jail from 2008 to 2010, according to the Associated Press.
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Police suspect foul play in the death of a woman, whose body was found in a parked car last night. The woman—only identified as being white and in her 30's—was found slumped over in the passenger seat of a car in a driveway on the border of Burbank and Los Angeles.
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Glendale paid out $125,000 to a man whose nasty tumble on a sidewalk in the city left him temporarily unconscious and with a permanently damaged left eye. The money was a settlement for a slip-and-fall-suit filed by Michael Donovan over an incident that happened back in 2009.
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A bomb scare prompted Disneyland to shut down its ticket booths for a few hours this morning. "One of the Disney employees noticed something out of the ordinary in a tree near the ticket booths,'' Anaheim police spokesman Sgt. Bob Dunn told City News Service.
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In tonight's Extra, Extra, who isn't paying taxes, signs of intelligent life on the dance floor and an interview with the stop-motion animators of Silver Lake's own web series.
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It took a couple days, but Saturday's winners of a $15 million Super Lotto finally stepped forward this Thursday to claim their winnings. Victor Caube, 47, and his anonymous friend have been buying lotto tickets together for the past few years and it finally paid off for them.
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What are the rich doing with their money nowadays? They're pissing it away. The Los Angeles Times looks at the latest real estate trend for rich people: having a shit-ton of bathrooms.
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The Santa Anita Racetrack has been getting quite a bit of publicity since HBO's new drama about horse-racing "Luck" premiered (ok, not all of the publicity has been great). But the mayor of Arcadia, the city that is home to the racetrack, felt the need to school members of the press in local geography.
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A man in San Bernardino County has been jailed for brutally attacking his daughter with a shovel. James Shovey, 48, broke down the door of his daughter's home on Wednesday night with a shovel and then threatened to kill his daughter and her baby.
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In tonight's Extra, Extra, Occupy L.A. protests a North Hollywood woman's eviction and deportation to Mexico, a doctor is arrested for overprescribing drugs and Judy Garland's Bel Air pad goes up for sale. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.