Emma G. Gallegos

Opponents of the California DREAM Act that was signed into law this month are collecting signatures to overturn the law that goes into effect in 2013, according to the Sacramento Bee.

Police shot a man wielding a machete around 4 a.m. last night, according to ABC 7. Police responded to a report that there was a robbery at Beverly Boulevard and Berendo Street. They found a suspect attacking another man with a machete. The suspect ignored commands to drop the machete, police said, and opened fire on him.

Get out so that you can walk down the Miracle Mile, crawl down the Sunset Strip and ponder what God's trademark is.

Los Angeles' own wedding photographer from hell has been sentenced to 510 days in jail, according to the Los Angeles Times. Hiring Alan Brent Carruth of Alan Brent Photography ended up being a disastrous choice for 42 local couples tying the knot.

A serial rapist who picked up at least four young women in Orange County bars by drugging them or plying them with booze could face 100 years in prison at his sentencing hearing, according to the LA Times.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Indio keeps Coachella, Skid Row loses a dispensary and John & Ken's apology is not accepted. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

The appearance of a capybara the world's largest rodent far from its native South America near a wastewater facility in Paso Robles — has taxidermists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History even more excited than Twitter.

Guys, Lindsay Lohan is so sorry about showing up late to morgue duty yesterday, which is her second third chance at chipping away at the 480 community service hours she owes the county. So just to really prove that she doesn't think she can get away with everything just because she's rich and famous she's sorry, she had her assistants bring morgue staffers and volunteers gourmet cupcakes for breakfast and In-N-Out for lunch.

The origin of a listeria outbreak that tainted cantaloupes from a farm in Colorado has been traced to a packing shed on the farm. Government investigators found a packing shed on Jensen Farms in Granada, Colorado that was full of listeria-tainted water.

Yep, that's right. The attorney who has been representing 1-800-GET-THIN has lawyered up and filed his own class action against the Los Angeles Times. If you come across one of the billboards of this lawyers' lawyer on the 710 or other freeways around Los Angeles, you might think that his class action had something to do with wiretapping.

Los Angeles has a problem with massive cracks in its sidewalks, after the cash-strapped city just let things go for way too long and federal help dried up. Now the city is considering a plan to make those monster cracks the responsibility of homeowners.

If you wondered what the people who hastily dumped Osama bin Laden's body in the sea were smoking, you now have your answer: synthetic pot. The Navy has busted 64 San Diego-based sailors connected to a synthetic pot ring — 49 of those sailors were aboard the USS Carl Vinson, the aircraft carrier that was used to bury Osama bin Laden at sea.