Emma G. Gallegos

Last week a rescue team was called in to airlift a trio of hikers clinging to a cliff in Eaton Canyon. A video from the Air 5 rescue team captured the rescue.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Aaron Sorkin's dialogue is dangerous, grocery stores say they will shutter stores during a strike and that one girl from that Rebecca Black video is coping with fame somehow. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

Starting next week, it's going to cost you at least $15.50 to take a taxi if you're flying into Burbank — even if you live just a few blocks away. The cabbies there are sick of passengers who hail a cab to get to a parking lot just outside the airport. The short trips end up being a burden for drivers, who wait for hours in a queue, only to get a pittance from a short trip, according to The Burbank Leader.

Experts are still trying to figure out what would cause a tree to fall on a woman's car while she waited at a stoplight in Costa Mesa. One theory being floated to explain the tragic and freaky accident is that Thursday morning's 3.5 rattler might have loosened the tree.

Another starving horse turned up in the Inland Empire this week — the same week that a skeletal horse found in Ontario made news all the way on the east coast. It turns out horse-dumping is an even bigger problem in Riverside County. This week officials told the Los Angeles Times that they found the 41st abandoned horse this year in a field near Perris.

The ad copy at this unnamed burger joint coming soon to Shanghai seems awfully familiar. "Double-Double"? "Animal-Style"? "Protein Style"? A reader on Reddit think it's some kind of sick joke. We call it globalization.

Get out so you can enjoy a street festival, clean up the coast and maintain L.A. history.

Shots were fired at an In-N-Out in Hollywood this morning, penetrating the front door of the restaurant, according to City News Service.

The Hollywood Hills has a new gated community, at least temporarily. The city council has approved a new gate on Solar Drive, which closes off a popular access point for Runyon Canyon hikers, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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A middle-school student was disciplined for doing something silly with her smart phone: videotaping her friend in the girls' locker room, where a bunch of other girls were changing for PE. Fearing that the girl's video would go viral — as the school's rumor-mill indicated — the school's administration responded swiftly and got the police involved, according to Murrieta Patch.

California has way, way more beer pong players than anyone else in the world, according to the company BPong.com. And it should know, because BPong.com is the "center of the beer pong universe." Right? Errr, no. Leave it to a bunch of drunkards to come up with a lame way of doing a "survey."