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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

Police are searching for a man who followed a woman into a Long Beach City College restroom and attacked her last night. The student was able to fight off her attacker and she was hospitalized with minor injuries. The suspect fled, but an instructor who found the woman alerted police, according to the Los Angeles Times.