Emma G. Gallegos

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas expects to be up against an insanity defense in the case against the man whose shooting spree in Seal Beach left eight dead this week. Rackauckas had said earlier this morning that he would be seeking the death penalty against the gunman Scott Dekraai.

Protesters of Occupy L.A. have been camped out on the lawn of City Hall 24/7 for weeks with the blessing of city officials, but now the city's Department of Parks and Recreation is worried about the lawn around City Hall, according to The Daily News. It could cost as much as $50,000 to revive the lawn that has been trampled with protesters, campers and DJs.

A health insurance company announced this week that it was deciding to give back — to its policyholders. Blue Shield of California said that it was giving back $283 million to nearly 2 million policyholders in California, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Inmates in California have ended their nearly three-week hunger strike as a protest against prison conditions and policies over who ends up in — or who gets released from — solitary confinement in the system's high-security Security Housing Unit. What is clear is that the strike has ended. What is not clear are the terms of agreement that ended the strike.

It turns out there are some slight benefits to a bum economy: fewer people employed means fewer people taking up space on the freeway during the morning and afternoon commutes. Since the economy tanked, traffic has actually improved in Los Angeles and nationally. But traffic is supposed to get uglier when the economy improves and more of us get jobs, according to a study put out by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Starbucks might be juicing, Karen O sings for Chipotle and the heat wave is nearly over. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

A college student at Fullerton is stepping forward to say that he was wrongfully arrested and beat up by members of the Fullerton Police Department. Christopher Spicer Janku, 23, has come forward with his story on the blog Friends for Fullerton's Future, which has been following the fatal beating of Kelly Thomas and other allegations of abuse by the city's police department.

It turns out the man who allegedly hacked into the e-mail accounts of celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and leaked nude photos relied less on technical prowess and more on tabloid fare to commit his crimes. FBI officials said that by reading tabloids and keeping up with celebrities' Twitter and Facebook feeds, Christopher Chaney, 35, was able to guess the passwords of celebrities.

The New York Times came out with a piece this week that is ostensibly about the region-wide art festival "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. from 1945 to 1980." Awesome, right? For an article that is supposedly about Southern California's art scene, it spills a lot of ink explaining why New York's art scene is way more important. But we're wondering: doth the Gray Lady protest too much?

LAPD detectives are investigating a tip they got this week that someone had buried a dead baby in the Angeles National Forest way back in 2010. The death was never reported until now. Detectives know that the baby died while in the care of its parents, but they don't know how. It was 6 weeks old at the time of its death.

A woman was fatally shot in the head last night for no apparent reason as she was walking out of laundromat in South Los Angeles, according to LAPD detectives. Around 10 p.m. last night Mayela Valdes Garcia, 41, left the Coin Laundry Lavanderia to empty some trash. A man walked up to her, shot her in the head and fled.

The woman Marie Shipley, 55, had been driving her three grandsons, ages 7, 11 and 13, when they started arguing. She told them to shut up, and then they jumped out. Grandma stopped the car so they could get back in, but she started accelerating before they were all loaded into the car.