Greg Katz

A big rig carrying 20 tons of French fries slid off the 5 Freeway near Castaic this morning, tumbling 30 feet down an embankment.

Do you have a stupid tweaker friend in the Valley who likes setting couches on fire? The LAFD would like to talk to him, because that's illegal. Even in Van Nuys.

Hey uninsured Californians, it's time to mosey on over to the Covered California website.

The family of Brian Beaird, who was shot at 20 times by LAPD officers after a car chase, plans to sue the police department for killing the unarmed man.

A fifth-grade teacher who worked for the El Segundo Unified School District has been charged by a grand jury with molesting 13 boys, mostly in the L.A. area.

Portland, Ore.-based music critic David Greenwald came back to Southern California for the holidays, headed straight to In-N-Out (natch) and snapped this glorious picture.

If you're heading to one of the Canoga Park nightlife hotspots to spend your Saturday, try an alternate route: a water main under Topanga Canyon Blvd. broke this morning, opening a hole and flooding the street.

Sean “Carnage” Carney, the iconic independent promoter whose weekly shows at Pehrspace in Historic Filipinotown have introduced many of L.A.’s most important experimental bands, is ending his weekly show.

Occidental College in Eagle Rock has been keeping even more sexual assaults of students a secret than previously thought.

Here’s a story for the next time someone tells you that video games make you a violent/useless sociopath/stoner: this morning, a 22-year-old man in Westminster who was in the midst of a video game rescued his 87-year-old neighbor, who was overcome by smoke in a mobile home fire across the street.