Emma G. Gallegos

Lawmakers have sent Governor Jerry Brown (and his corgi Sutter Brown) a bill that would require all cats and dogs that are adopted or reclaimed at shelters to be implanted with microchips. The pluses for owners are obvious: those microchips would help lost animals become reunited with their owners. And that will be good for shelters, too, which are often crowded with lost pets.

An LAPD officer was shot at multiple times in South Los Angeles this afternoon while making a pedestrian stop, according to ABC 7. The shooting happened this afternoon in South Los Angeles around 2:45 p.m. near Western Avenue and W. 70th Street.

The District Attorney is withholding the names of six Fullerton officers being investigated in the fatal beating of Kelly Thomas, citing a significant number of threats to the officers' safety. A spokesperson for the DA said it will release the officers' names when it decides to seek criminal charges.

At least six activists demanding an end to the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program were arrested on Wednesday, while staging a sit-in at the Edward R. Roybal federal building downtown. Outside there were nearly 200 supporters protesting outside of the federal building where immigrants are prepared for deportation. Some protestors blocked a ramp used by immigration buses, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Police today said they aren't going to arrest the rapper Game for an alleged assault at a Hollywood club early on Tuesday morning. The rapper showed up at Hollywood Police Station today to tell police that he didn't throw any punches in Tuesday night's scuffle. After interviewing witnesses and taking a look at the shaky partial footage of the incident, the police told TMZ that they bought Game's story.

Yes, it's as nauseating as it sounds. Police in El Segundo are searching for a Peeping Tom, who was caught masturbating while he watched a little girl playing in a kiddie pool over the weekend. The little girl and her father didn't notice the man spying through the fence, but a witness caught him in the act and caught him on tape, The Daily Breeze reports.

Registered sex offenders won't be able to find a date on Match.com, thanks to a settlement with a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a convicted sex offender while she was using the site. The colossal dating service has agreed to conduct background checks to weed out sex offenders that try to use the site, despite previous concerns that such a policy would not be foolproof and may provide a false sense of security.

Rent checks have been going up eleven months in a row in Southern California, The Orange County Register reports. In July, rents rose at an annual rate of 1.4 percent in the Southland, continuing a steady rise since they took a dip in 2010. But it might too soon to start ask Jimmy McMillan to open a West Coast branch of The Rent Is Too Damn High Party.

Aaron Brothers has caved in to pressure from City Hall and canceled its "urban art" events in Los Angeles County. The company was planning on showcasing the work of professional street artists at live events. It was also going to offer free "graffiti starter kits" to attendees (that really just had snazzy-looking markers and paper and no spray paint whatsoever).

One Studio City woman is sick of your lost kitty posters cluttering her neighborhood, and she's not going to take it anymore. Resident Marilyn White-Sedel has been waging a one-woman campaign to tear down lost pet and garage sale signs that clutter her neighborhood. Now she's asking for the community's help, Studio City Patch reports.

Sonia Hermosillo, the La Habra mother accused of throwing her infant son from a parking garage, couldn't accept her son's disability, her husband told The Orange County Register. "She didn't look at our son as normal," Hermosillo's husband Noe Medina said. "She didn't accept him. She didn't accept that he was like this."

This year the federal government is on track to crack down on nearly twice as many health care fraud cases compared to last year, according to California Watch. Some of the prosecutions close to home used parishioners, postal workers and non-existent cancer patients to conduct their scams.