Emma G. Gallegos

A man from Newport Beach has been charged with creating a stink in Orange County. Tomoo Kawai, 67, is accused of dumping soiled adult diapers along the side of the Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach and Laguna Beach.

Get out so you can listen to some chamber music, TED talks or watch graffiti artists do their thing.

Has Venice's Abbot Kinney become too popular for its own good? Earlier this year GQ named it the "Coolest Block In America" but we've been hearing from more Venice residents worried that corporations hoping to cash in on the boulevard's cachet are destroying what was cool about it (i.e. its weirdness) in the first place.

A Mexican Mafia kingpin ran a dozen or so street gangs in South Los Angeles through his daughter and son-in-law, according to three federal grand jury indictments. For more than two years, the feds have been investigating the Harpys street gang, which controls the area just southwest of downtown and north of USC. Mexican Mafia member Danny Roman calls the shots for the Harpys gang plus a dozen others from behind bars in Pelican Bay State Prison.

The four people who were arrested on Monday in connection with this weekend's fatal shooting of four people just outside an illegal boardinghouse in Northridge agreed not to fight their extradition from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.

A man was hospitalized after being shot by a police officer in Hollywood this morning.

Last year Orange County passed a controversial law banning sex offenders from going to parks. The county's District Attorney lobbied for cities to follow, and so far about half of the cities in the county have.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, "Persian Barbie" sends out a cease-and-desist, King Eddy's Saloon closes and Measure J results were close. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

A US Coast Guard member was killed early this morning just off the coast of Malibu after a smuggler's panga rammed into a small federal boat during a chase. A Coast Guard patrol plane caught a panga and another boat running without lights around 1 am.

A birther seeking to get a hold of President Barack Obama's college records from his brief time at Occidental College was all but laughed out of court. Rancho Santa Margarita attorney Orly Taitz filed a lawsuit trying to get Occidental College to turn over Obama's records—including his college application—from the two years that he spent at the Southern California liberal arts college.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, a Playboy gets engaged, a man kills his dad with a crossbow and Lindsay Lohan asks, "WHY?!!" Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

It's complicated between Kim Kardashian and the Middle East. On the one hand, Kardashian is beloved enough that thousands of fans in Bahrain forked over the equivalent of $1,360 just to get a chance to see her open up a milkshake shop yesterday. On the other hand, protesters showed up to the opening armed with signs and stun grenades.