Emma G. Gallegos

Today the Occupy Los Angeles movement—with its renewed focus on foreclosures—is rallying downtown to protest the actions of the Bank of New York Mellon and Auction.com.

It's been done before: a travel writer comes to Los Angeles and discovers that—despite the fact our fair city is neither as dense as East Coast cities nor as bike-friendly as Portland—touring the city by bike isn't a bad way to go.

If you weren't ready to buy Coachella passes at the stroke of 10 am this morning, chances are you're going to have to pay a scalper a little (but probably a lot) extra if you want to go to the festival this year. Passes for both weekends sold out within three hours.

Customs inspectors at LAX busted a dude that tried to smuggle in 63 pounds of an erectile dysfunction drug. Inspectors noticed a white, powdery substance inside the carry-on of a 40-year-old Korean man last week.

A man was shot to death in Hollywood early this morning while he was waiting for a bus with his girlfriend, police say. Cesar Gonzalez, 25, was shot while at a bus stop on the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Edgemont Street around 1:15 am.

Blue Palms Brew House—the restaurant and bar housed inside the recently-closed Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theatre—announced that they have reached a short-term deal with the property's owners so that it can stay open for the next few weeks.

Brittany Murphy's dad, who thinks his daughter's moldy home killed her in 2009, is suing the coroner's office over its investigation of her death. Murphy's father Angelo Bertolotti is claiming in a lawsuit that the coroner's office inadequately investigated his daughter's death before coming to the conclusion that her untimely death was an accident and the result of drug intoxication.

New technology automatically scans license plate data, records cars' locations at a certain date and time and stores that data. There are limits to what police can do with that information, but private companies don't have these same restrictions.

Thanks to those bums in Illinois, California is no longer the state with the worst credit rating in the nation—a position we have held since 2009. Moody's Investors Service penalized Illinois with an A2 rating, which is even worse than our A1.

The Academy Awards' lease with the Kodak Theatre is up after the 2013 awards, leaving a space wide open for a new venue to swoop in and offer a better deal.

Four out of ten Angelenos are more wigged out than they were five years ago. But, hey, at least we are working harder than the rest of the nation to tackle that stress!

Justice is supposed to be blind, but one judge in Orange County is being booted off the bench for tilting the scales of justice in favor of his family and friends with traffic tickets.