Emma G. Gallegos

Your local mall could be monitoring your cell phone signal this holiday season. This Black Friday some malls in the US will be rolling out a new technology that allows retailers to track customers' cell phone signals while they're shopping.

Police are looking for whomever fired shots at a shuttle that was carrying tourists from downtown to the Queen Mary in Long Beach last night. The shooting happened not far from the Queen Mary just after midnight last night.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Paris Hilton's little bro's crash is caught on tape, Cairo is bloody and the President of the UC's is appalled by Friday's pepper-spraying incident. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

A statement to the sheriff's department from Marti Rulli — the author of a book about the night (who most certainly stands to gain something by a high-profile investigation) — obtained by TMZ contains some intriguing details from a woman who says she was an "ear witness" to Wood's death.

The creators of "Arrested Development" announced that they have teamed up with Netflix to teach you a lesson about canceling your instant subscription.

Try to wrap your brain around these numbers: it is estimated that 12,000 feral cats are roaming the streets of the ZIP code 90037 — a two-square mile of South Los Angeles that's roughly centered on Vermont Avenue and Vernon Avenue.

Not all Angelenos appreciate our Metro system, but police say there is one demographic that seems to be taking the "Go Metro" advertising campaign to heart: criminals making a getaway.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, it turns out a valued casting director had a sex offender record, the Catholic Church bought the Crystal Cathedral and the feds' role in cracking down on local Occupy movements is probed. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

The Highland Park gallery Monte Vista is letting patrons check out a tree this season. You can call it a Christmas tree rental service, but they don't and the name they've chosen — the Portable Forest Tree Library — sounds way cooler.

Get out so you can see a Eugene O'Neill play, destroy all monsters (like they did in the 1970s) or learn about how L.A. pretty much invented the world.

The Desert Xpress — a proposed high-speed rail that would zip between SoCal and Las Vegas on that sometimes-unbearable stretch of the I-15 — has been given the OK from the Bureau of Land Management.

The days of the iconic, double-arched 6th Street bridge that stretches across the Los Angeles River are numbered. Now the city council is trying to figure out how to replace the bridge built in 1932 — and whether to shut it down before an earthquake does the job.