Emma G. Gallegos

A man dressed as a smurf got shot in the leg as he tried to defend his girlfriend and smurfette for the eve at a Halloween party in South Los Angeles. The suspect punched the smurfette in the face, and then shot the 25-year-old man in the leg when he tried to defend her.

When Sheriff Lee Baca said he didn't know jailer brutality was a serious problem, this didn't sit well with some critics. If sheriff's command staff kept Baca in the dark, why weren't their heads rolling now? And now Los Angeles Times has obtained clear evidence that Baca's command staff knew jailer brutality was a problem, but the department is still saying that Baca never got the memo — literally.

Drew Barrymore might be a reformed wild child who has a respectable career acting, writing, directing and generally pulling in a lot of box office dinero — but she still knows how to throw the kind of party that pisses off her neighbors.

Same city, same cause but the effort to get a second 24/7 Occupy Wall Street movement off the ground in Los Angeles City limits was shut down by police last night, according to Sherman Oaks Patch.

Get out so you can watch female blood-wrestling, avant-garde film or hear Angela Davis speak.

Kris Humphries, AKA Mr. Kim Kardashian, got taken in by a smooth-talking 27-year-old hedge fund manager, who claimed to be a Harvard grad offering the investment opportunity of a lifetime.

The man who hacked into the accounts of celebrities like ScarJo and Mila Kunis may have stalked a totally unfamous Connecticut woman for 12 years, starting when she was 13 years old.

A police standoff in Old Town Monrovia ended this afternoon when a man shot and killed himself. The man had pulled a gun on a woman that he was arguing with in a busy commercial area of Monrovia, according to Monrovia Patch. Police responded and told him to drop the gun. Instead, the man pushed the woman out of the way and turned the gun on himself.

In Tonight's Extra, Extra, one NorCal politician got caught shoplifting at Neiman's, another one got a DUI and the Biebs is taking a stand against a copyright bill. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

Get out so you can celebrate the dead, see new works by Chuck Close or go on a pub crawl with noir-loving writers.

Occupy San Fernando Valley launched into full swing today with protesters targeting local branches of large corporate banks with signs and chants. But the movement will face its first big challenge tonight when it tries to camp out at the Van Nuys Civic Center Complex.

Once investigators found out the so-called Grim Sleeper serial murderer was Lonnie Franklin Jr., they expected to find evidence that he had killed even more women than the initially suspected, according to the Los Angeles Times. They were right — investigators said they have linked Franklin to six more murders.