Emma G. Gallegos

An electric car company opened its global headquarters in Los Angeles this week. The city lured CODA Automotive with $1.4 million in financial incentives, and because the company wanted to make a home in a state that has a $2,500 rebate for electric vehicles, according to the Associated Press.

A deputy district attorney in San Diego commit suicide in front of a cop at a traffic stop last night. Escondido police had received a report that prosecutor Christine Trevino, 51, was acting suicidal.

An assistant high school football coach suspected of having sex with a 15-year-old student at the school where he coached was arrested yesterday at his home near Santa Clarita. School officials reported to sheriff's deputies that they suspected that the 20-year-old coach Nicolas Ovendale and a girl had sex.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department is looking into whether one of its employees took his girlfriend on a joyride in the department's helicopters. The internal investigation was sparked by angry anonymous letter complaining that the sheriff's department shouldn't be letting its employees take a joyride at taxpayers' expense.

A father distraught that his son had been killed in an accident earlier today drove into oncoming traffic and died in a separate accident in Eastern San Diego County.

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What's better than using a few years of tax revenue to fix Los Angeles' streets? How about using a few decades' worth! Mayor Villaraigosa has been coming up with a plan — "quietly" the Los Angeles Times says — to use 27 years of Measure R revenue funding to fix up the city's streets and potholes.

Police are investigating the creepy possibility that a sexual assailant used Twitter to find his next victim. On Halloween afternoon, a man jumped out of the bushes and sexually assaulted a woman finishing up a stroll through Elysian Park. She managed to escape and the suspect fled.

If you plan on committing a crime (or, uh, foraging for trash) in Altadena, I suggest you watch out for their fierce Chihuahua population. This summer Paco the Chihuahua chased off robbers at a smoke shop in Altadena and last night another Altadenan Chihuahua managed to chase a bear up a tree.

Police are looking for an 18-year-old high school student from New Jersey who went missing and never boarded his flight home this week. Julian Thompkins was on a trip visiting USC with his mother, but the last time she saw him was on November 6 near LAX.

Police are looking for the suspect who hit a USC motorcyclist last night and took off without offering any help. The 21-year-old USC student was driving on a motorcycle through the intersection at Vermont and Lexington Avenue around 6:40 p.m., when the motorcycle collided with a van.

Michael Jackson's family isn't happy with MSNBC's decision to air a documentary on the relationship between Jackson and his doctor Conrad Murray "Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship." Michael Jackson's estate complains in a letter to MSNBC that the documentary is an attempt to shift the blame back to Jackson.