Emma G. Gallegos

Being harassed on public transportation feels like an inevitable fact of life for many women who don't have a car or decide to forgo it. So while violent crime on Metro tends to be relatively low, this means many women don't necessarily feel safe riding public transportation.

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A bicyclist in Orange County messed with the wrong food blogger. OC Weekly food blogger Dave Lieberman had an eventful trip down the Santa Ana River Trail this weekend.

A 59-year-old woman is barely clinging to life after being set ablaze. Police responded to a call in Sylmar around 4 am on Saturday, August 25.

The moment we've all been waiting for has finally arrived: Amanda Bynes has had her driver's license suspended. We've been making jokes about Bynes' need for a driver—or at the very least a bus pass—for a while now because of all the trouble that she's gotten into on the road lately.

Over the Labor Day weekend, someone decided to leave some nasty notes on the cars of beachgoers at Belmont Shore in Long Beach.

The leader of Scientology enjoys taping the private "auditing" sessions of its celebrity members including Tom Cruise and watching them just for fun, according to a new report in Vanity Fair. Former Scientologists who worked closely with David Miscavige tell the magazine that the leader of Scientology used to watch Cruise's private auditing sessions just for their own personal entertainment.

Prosecutors have decided to charge Amanda Bynes with not one but two hit-and-runs, after they took a look at one incident in April and another one last month. Bynes is accused of crashing into cars and fleeing the scene twice.

A woman and her two children were stabbed to death in their Riverside home just days after she rejected a marriage proposal from the children's father, according to a restraining order filed just days before.

Police and FBI agents are looking for a pair of men accused of kidnapping a Bank of America manager last night, and then sending her into a bank branch this morning with a bomb strapped to her.

The 626 Night Market is heading east to Arcadia and expanding to become a 2-night event next month. The third 626 Night Market will be heading from near Pasadena City Hall to the infield area of the Santa Anita Racetrack on Saturday October 20 and Sunday October 21.

A man was arrested in Arizona last night on suspicion of stabbing his girlfriend to death inside a Laguna Hills home yesterday. The 24-year-old woman was identified as Alexandra Joyce Tang, a resident of Santa Barbara by the coroner's office.