Emma G. Gallegos

The District Attorney's office passed up a chance to extradite a former LAUSD and Inglewood substitute teacher who had been accused of sexual misconduct on the job and had been charged with indecent exposure and possessing child pornography.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, a large naked lady stomps on a car in the Bay Area, photos from L.A.'s recent Edwardian ball and a local AT&T customer takes on the company in court—and wins. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

Get out so you can head to a swap meet in the High Desert or celebrate the life of the late artist Mike Kelley.

Two people were injured in a shooting outside a high school in the Miracle MileMid-City area this afternoon. The shooting happened near Olympic and Rimpau boulevards—just outside Los Angeles High School—around 3:30pm this afternoon.

If you tune in to the 84th Annual Academy Awards tomorrow, you might recognize the venue but you may not recognize the name. The awards will be taking place at the same place that they have for over a decade but instead of calling it the Kodak Theatre, announcers will be calling it the "Hollywood & Highland Center."

The Newport Beach restaurant listed on the receipt of a patron who left a measly 1% tip and wrote that his waitress should "GET A REAL JOB" has responded. The receipt (posted at right) was the first post by an anonymous blogger under the handle "Future Ex-Banker" whose blog and Twitter feed have since been yanked down.

Authorities say that a pedestrian who was struck by a big rig on Tuesday was texting at the time that was struck.

Sorry freeloaders, you've only got a little over a week to get your fill of free Los Angeles Times articles. Starting on March 5, the Times is putting up a paywall. If you want to read more than 15 articles at the Times in a month, you're going to have to cough up some money, the Times says.

What on earth could renowned physicist Stephen Hawking have in common with reality husband Donn Gunvalson? Both have been sighted at a California sex club.

Shepard Fairey, Echo Park's most (in)famous street artist, pleaded guilty today to criminal contempt in the fair use case he filed against the Associated Press back in 2009. The news agency countersued and accused him of violating copyright protections when he used one of their photographer's work in his iconic Barack Obama "HOPE" poster.

Another day, another round of sexual abuse allegations against LAUSD teachers. This time the suspect is a female teacher at Roosevelt High (that's Mayor V's alma mater), who is suspected of bringing at least two students (separately!) to her home in Montebello and having sex with them.

The parents of the 15-year-old Crescenta Valley High School student who jumped to his to death in the school quad this month are speaking out about the final months of their son. John and Deana Ferraro said that their son Drew had been tormented by bullies for the last nine months of his life, which neither of them realized until they read his journal.