Emma G. Gallegos

Yesterday a protester with Occupy L.A. told the city attorney's office that the group planned to seek a restraining order against police who might try to boot them off the City Hall lawn without warning.

A jury has awarded a whopping $65 million to a woman who was sexually assaulted by a male nurse at a hospital that was then known as Encino-Tarzana Medical Center.

Ryan Holiday a self-described "media manipulator for notorious clients like Tucker Max and Dov Charney" has landed a pretty penny for a book deal.

Although the city council passed a resolution supporting a peaceful protest, organizers have sought a temporary restraining order so that police cannot evict the protesters camped out on City Hall's lawn without notice.

The La Cañada High teacher who was accused of calling a student "Jew boy," making fun of a student with a stutter and giving female students in her math class a hard time will be keeping her job.

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.

Last year NBC reporter Robert Kovacik joined his friend (and real housewife of Beverly Hills) Lisa Vanderpump for a drink at the swanky lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel on Christmas Eve. The night ended with him getting punched in the face by another patron Roger Talavera.

It's time to toss that salad out again. Ready Pac Foods, which is based in Irwindale, is voluntarily recalling 5,379 cases of bagged salad that have romaine lettuce in them.

It's almost that time of the year — 'tis the season to booze with the Africans mammals and have a dance-off with T-Rex. That's right, the Natural History Museum announced that First Fridays are going to be kicking off again in January.

Los Angeles lives up to its reputation of having some of the most clogged freeways in the nation according to a study put out by the Texas Transportation Institute.

The woman who said she was having Justin Bieber's baby has dropped her paternity suit against him, but the legal saga isn't over just yet.

Malibu already attracts bicyclists from afar hoping to take in some gorgeous seascapes on their rides. But now the city wants to make it official and become a "Bicycle Friendly Community."