Emma G. Gallegos

A naked man bolted from the back of an ambulance and got killed after running into freeway traffic in Orange County this morning.

It's official. After more than 30 years of marriage, Mel and Robyn Gibson are finito. The couple stuck together for a long time through thick (Mel was reportedly worth $900 million at one point) and thin (there were those alcohol-fueled anti-semitic tirades on the shoulder of PCH and misdemeanor battery charges). But today a judge will sign documents officially ending their marriage, according to City News Service.

Well, that was fast. TEAPAC, the Pasadena offshoot of the Tea Party movement, has dropped its plans to stage a counter-protest against Occupy Wall Street protestors, who plan to hold up signs during the Rose Parade and march through the parade route after the TV cameras are off.

When Grey got asked onto the View to discuss her reading-to-first-graders scandal, we asked what we all were so afraid of. In the same vein, adult actress Aurora Snow asks whether her work in porn should completely disqualify her from ever working with young school children.

A Buena Park man accused of murdering a roommate who propositioned him for sex is due in court tomorrow. Edgar Salvador Luciozamudio, 22, had been living with Ricardo Rios, 47, in a converted garage for a month. One night last week Rios tried to come on to Luciozamudio — and it went about as poorly as it could have.

Yet another local coach has been accused of sexually abusing a former student. Bellflower High School track and girls' basketball coach Bryan Shepherd, 47, of Torrance was behind bars Tuesday on suspicion of sexually assaulting one of his former students over the course of four years.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, we discover there's someone out there who paid for a Tupac sex tape, a weird quirk of electoral law means millions of Californians will be unrepresented at the state capital and Ron Howard finished up a crowd-sourced project. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

As lawsuits against Prop 8 wind their way through the court system, one local group is trying to gather enough signatures to put a law legalizing gay marriage on the ballot in 2012. The group Love Honor Cherish has just gotten cleared by the secretary of state's office.

LAUSD students hate the new lunch menu. The district has received awards for improving lunches from the U.S.D.A and from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, but the students literally aren't having it.

Get out so you can revel in some holiday Americana, learn about the gay & lesbian rights movement or listen to contemporary writers in Los Angeles.

In its heyday, the historic Dunbar Hotel hosted W.E.B Dubois, Langston Hughes, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway and Lena Horne at its location on Central Avenue in the heart of the Los Angeles Jazz Corridor. The neighborhood fell on hard times, but now the Dunbar Hotel and buildings around it are getting revamped.

Just a day after the FDA said that Lap-Band surgical centers and marketers needed more truth in its advertising about the hazards of weight loss surgery, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors said it was stepping in to see if it could do anything to address the issue.