Jessica P. Ogilvie

Nicotine lovers, take heed: the UC system is banning smoking and chewing tobacco on all ten of its campuses altogether starting in 2014. The ban, reports the San Francisco Chronicle, is intended to reduce students' and faculty's exposure to second-hand smoke, but it's also to reduce the number of kids who take up smoking in college.

Chuck D of Public Enemy wants the world to know that hip-hop -- at least, his brand of it -- is about activism and community involvement. "For too long, they've said that the music I'm involved with, the genre doesn't have enough conscious social activity," he recently told CBS News.

After a frantic call to authorities from her sister yesterday afternoon, Heather Locklear is recovering from what some outlets have reported was a dangerous mix of prescription drugs and alcohol.

Three people died after a speeding Chevy Tahoe flipped over in Paramount, CA this morning, reports City News Service. The car was driving down Downey Avenue and when it tried to turn west onto Somerset Ranch Road, it hit a curb, a light pole and a fire hydrant, rolled over and burst into flames.

Clark Gable's grandson will carry on the family legacy by spending ten days in jail for pointing a laser at an LAPD helicopter. City News Service reports that Gable was sentenced today to three years of probation in addition to his time behind bars by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Horwitz.

Any Eddie Van Halen fans out there should consider pulling a Drew Barrymore in "Never Been Kissed" and heading back to high school -- the legendary rocker donated 75 of his own used electric guitars to schools around Los Angeles.

There's a new traffic cop in town, and NBC Los Angeles is taking the credit for it. In an article today, the news site announced that the city of Hermosa Beach's outgoing police chief Gregory Savelli will take over for Jimmy Price as L.A.'s parking enforcement chief as of January 17.

A woman was found with serious burns in North Hollywood after her house, which firefighters found to be stuffed with old newspapers and magazines, caught fire. KTLA reports that by the time rescue workers arrived at the scene at about 7:45 this morning, the woman was standing outside her house on the 12400 block of Burton Street., having been badly injured by the blaze.

Less than an hour after coming home from a high school soccer game, popular El Camino Real player Francisco Javier Rodriguez Jr., 17, was shot to death outside his home in Winnetka. Police were called to the 6900 block of Cozycroft Avenue at about 6:10 p.m. last night, according to a statement released by the LAPD.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, a recent graduate pushes for school reform in a high-performing district, the question is raised as to whether radio and TV should have the same indecency rules, and one boat was carrying a shitton of weed.

This was a week of alliance and redemption for the housewives, a week of true colors being shown and layers being peeled back to reveal THE TRUTH.

On Sunday night, two local women became the first out lesbians to compete in the Miss California USA pageant. Neither Mollie Thomas, 19, nor Jenelle Hutcherson, 26, went home with the crown, but they got their message across anyway.