Emma G. Gallegos

A man in El Monte has filed a suit against the city's police department, claiming that an officer who went to arrest him beat him until he was nearly blind. Cornelio Chavez, 35, suffered the beating in June while officers were arresting him on an outstanding warrant, The Pasadena Star-News reports.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Police say they have arrested a Hawthorne man who pepper sprayed his kids when they tried to stop him from choking his wife, The Daily Breeze reports. The man Lakepa Tahi Fifita, 45, began choking his wife after they had an argument about finances. When his children asked him to stop, he asked one of them to fetch him a can of pepper spray, which he then turned on them.

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.

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).

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.