Emma G. Gallegos

The annual Orionid meteor shower has returned, and this weekend might be your best shot at catching a glimpse of the falling stars. The best time to see the meteors will be between 11 pm on Saturday and 5:40 am on Sunday.

A man was shot in the parking lot of a Ralph's supermarket in Woodland Hills this afternoon. The shooting happened around 3:19 pm in the parking lot of the store at the intersection of Ventura Boulevard and Winnetka Avenue.

An Orange County woman has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for being the creepiest ex-girlfriend ever. In 2010, Elizabeth Villanueva, 49, hid in the backseat of her ex-boyfriend's Mercedes in a church parking lot.

An argonaut, a kind of octopus that you normally find in tropical or subtropical waters, made an appearance in the unseasonably balmy waters off the coast of San Pedro this week. Some fisherman accidentally scooped up to the female argonaut (also referred to as a paper nautilus) and brought it to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro this week.

This week's edition of Overheard in L.A. features bits of overheard conversation from Runyon Canyon, auditions and Abbot Kinney.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, "The Californians" are back, reenacting Felix Baumgartner's jump with Legos and analyzing that Berman/Sherman fight. 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).

Another day, another story about sexism in the entertainment industry. Susan Sarandon recently spoke about her own casting couch experience as a young actress with in the upcoming issue of Elle Magazine.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, LiLo is back at the Chateau Marmont, some more Endeavour news and one Echo Park criminal who probably wanted his food to go. 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).

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Brad Pitt said that despite his drug days being behind him, he could find any drug anywhere within 24 hours. Ok, sure, Brad Pitt could probably get anything he wanted in any city in 24 hours because he's Brad Pitt. But Pitt explains that it's also because he believes war on drugs has been a disaster, failing to even make a dent in supply of illicit drugs—to say nothing about the demand.

An employee at Bumble Bee Foods in Santa Fe Springs was killed on the job in one of the worst ways that we can imagine: he was cooked inside an industrial oven at the plant. The employee Jose Melena, 62, was a 6-year employee of the plant. It's not clear how it happened, but Melena's lifeless body was discovered around 7 am on Thursday inside a "steamer machine."

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