Jessica P. Ogilvie

A couple has been arrested after they allegedly robbed a mom in a parking lot then hit her with their car while trying to make a quick getaway, reports KTLA. The mom, whose name hasn't been released, told police that she was walking through the lot in San Jacinto with her three small children when she was approached by a woman later identified as Lakeisha Pinkney.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, a mom gets turned down by Playboy, beach dwellers get bike racks, and LAUSD gets suggestions. 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).

Last week, Cal Poly kids were getting punched for their cell phones, and now, UCLA students are being robbed as they roam the streets surrounding their school in Westwood. According to the Daily Bruin, a total of seven robberies have been reported in the area since the beginning of April.

If you were worried that your local bomb squad wasn't on top of things, fret not -- a team of explosives experts in Riverside County is so ready to act that they blew up a suspicious-looking iPad case belonging to one unlucky musician over the weekend.

The case of John Travolta and his multiple massage manhandlings is quickly falling apart. According to People, a masseur who accused Travolta of trying to have sex with him during a rubdown at the Beverly Hills Hotel -- the accusation that launched the shitstorm of other, similar accusations -- has decided to drop out of a lawsuit against the "Saturday Night Fever" star.

A lobster poacher -- or, as they say in my hometown of Boston, a lobstah poachah -- in Orange County who was caught in January with more than three times the legal limit of lobsters was fined $20,000 and had to spend seven days in jail. City News Service reports that 30-year-old Marbel Para of Romoland was picking the little red fellows up on Laguna Beach State Marine Reserve on January 15. It's perfectly legal to catch them by hand for your own devices, but you can only take seven a day.

Governor Jerry Brown released his May budget revision, and friends, it's not pretty. Our fearless leader is hoping to address the state's $16 million deficit by cutting programs like Medi-Cal, asking state workers to take a pay cut, and reducing spending on in-home services.

A man holding a woman and two children hostage in Venice was shot in the face by police, reports City News Service. The incident went down at about 1:15 this morning, after a neighbor heard a woman screaming for help and called the cops. When they showed up, they were able to see the suspect pinning a woman against a wall inside the house at Penmar Avenue and Lake Street. They heard a gunshot, and called in the SWAT team.

If you were wondering how Whitney Houston's family is faring in the wake of her untimely and tragic death, you need look no further than reality TV -- sorry, documentary television. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lifetime has ordered up ten episodes of what they're calling a docuseries following the late singer's relatives as they come to terms with her passing.

Riverside County could soon be getting a little bit quieter. After discovering that houses in residential neighborhoods are being routinely used for massive parties, county officials are looking for a way to ban such goings-on.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Silver Lake gets a new eatery, Britney Spears signs a new contract, and a local high school will get new drug-sniffing dogs. 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).

In a stroke of creative genius, a reality TV producer wants to make a show about high school kids that live in the Malibu area, documenting what happens over their summer vacation. This staggeringly original idea comes to us courtesy of executive producer Sean Travis ("The Hills," "The City"), and the show -- called "Our Summer" -- is described as follows on Facebook.