Jessica P. Ogilvie

Police are looking for a man who tried to steal a parakeet and two parrots from a home in Orange County, reports City News Service. The suspect, who's described as a 25 to 30-year-old Latino male with a thick black moustache, was reportedly trying to take the birds from the back yard of a house in Anaheim when the resident, a 69-year-old man, confronted him and asked him what he was doing.

It's not every day that you come across a story so vile that it's difficult to write, but here we go: a South L.A. elementary school teacher is being accused of binding and gagging students, covering them with roaches, and possibly feeding some of them his semen from a spoon.

A fire in a South L.A. furniture store destroyed nearly 70 percent of the business' inventory, reports NBC Los Angeles. The store, C and L Furniture, is located at 6245 S. Manhattan Place.

Last week, blogger Donovan Strain put forth a theory that rocked the internet: he claimed to have figured out the date referenced in Ice Cube's 1993 hit, "It Was A Good Day." Strain's theory was the result of an exhaustive search that included looking up everything from weather reports to Lakers' schedules, and ultimately turned up the date January 20, 1992.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, a Boston cable show comes to local TV, a woman drives into a doughnut shop, and Kourtney and Kim Kardashian kill it in their show's season finale. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

Normally, when the President arrives in town, we cluck about it for days beforehand because we're all so terrified that we'll be the unlucky bastards stuck on Pico Blvd. for three hours. But we haven't heard much about traffic delays leading up to the arrival of Michelle Obama today, and we're hoping that it stays that way.

If you have an appointment at Kaiser today, you might want to call ahead -- one of the largest healthcare worker strikes in the hospital's history is happening today, reports NBC Los Angeles.

Michael Scott Moore, a writer from Manhattan Beach, was researching a book about pirates in Somalia when he was abducted by a group of 15 men, and he's currently being held hostage, reports the Huffington Post.

For those of you still cackling over the fact that Pat Sajak and Vanna White were wasted while hosting "Wheel of Fortune," we have some disappointing news: Sajak says he exaggerated a little bit.

On Wednesday, we drew your attention to a how-to video featuring a scantily clad young lady putting chains on tires. The video was posted by Bear Mountain Resort on YouTube, and it stars 24-year-old Lauren Lunday.

It's funny when rival public radio stations get into tiffs with each other (or...it would be if we could think of an instance in which that had happened), but it's even funnier when they outright prank each other. (Democrats have a sense of humor, too!)

As surprising as it is, Michael Jackson didn't leave his hand and footprints outside the Grauman's Chinese Theater before he died. So yesterday, his children, Prince, Paris and Blanket, took his old shoes and a sequined glove an left prints in his honor, reports CNN.