Emma G. Gallegos

Basketball labor fights aren't like other kinds of labor fights. When other laborers want to protest, they go on strike. Kobe Bryant? He's threatening to go to Italy. The Lakers star has three years and $83.5 million left on his Lakers contract, but thanks to a 3-month NBA lockout he's considering running off to Italy to play basketball there for a stint.

Clouds are rolling in and dropping rain on the Southland this afternoon. The culprit? A weakened Hurricane Hilary that's moving eastward toward the Southwest — which could certainly use the extra rain.

A student at South East High School in South Gate is in critical condition after a boy stabbed her during lunch break today. Four people who stepped in to rescue the girl, including a school dean, were also injured. The stabbing attack happened today after 11 a.m. and the school was temporarily locked down until 1 p.m., according to KCAL.

A woman who murdered her husband and told investigators that she ate his body with a nice Chianti dipped in BBQ sauce twenty years ago is scheduled to appear before a parole board. Omaima Aree Nelson is asking for early release from her 27-year sentence, according to The Daily Pilot.

If you have a medical marijuana card, the feds don't want you to have a gun. The revelation comes not from a new law but from a letter put out by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives last week, the Associated Press reports.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, grocery workers strike a deal, LACMA moves one of the heaviest rocks ever and activists in Los Angeles want to Occupy Wall Street, too. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

Check out links from around the other ists: the Red Sox are embarrassing everyone, police in the Bay Area are cracking down on red light-running bicyclists and Northwesterners mourned the loss of "Electron Boy."

Get out, so you can enjoy music on the Miracle Mile, celebrate sustainability in Venice and revisit the Chicano art movement.

A drunk woman driving six children in her SUV got into a rollover crash early this morning in Lancaster, which landed two children in the hospital with major injuries. The woman identified as Stanesha Nicole Allen, 31, of Lake Los Angeles has been charged with a DUI, according to the Los Angeles Times. It's not clear yet what Allen's relationship to all the kids is.

A Santa Clarita man shot his next door neighbor to death after the two got into an argument early this morning, according to sheriff's homicide detectives. The 51-year-old victim walked over to his next door neighbor's house around the 3 a.m. to complain about some ongoing dispute. The neighbor shot the 51-year-old man in the torso, killing him. Firefighters pronounced him dead at the scene.

Get out so you can go to the Cherry Blossom Festival, see fabulous midcentury furniture and enjoy a youth festival.

It's the beginning of autumn and you know what that means: we're sliding into fire season. Tonight it's not wind but dry lightning storms that are raising red flags in mountain communities, according to the Los Angeles Times.