Jessica P. Ogilvie

Here at LAist, we like to support local businesses. We like to see them thrive, because we love our city and we want our people to do well. What, then, are we supposed to make of a man who owns a business in Brentwood and spends an entire interview with the Huffington Post trash-talking L.A. residents, judging the very people who allow him to earn a livelihood, and promoting some of the worst stereotypes of Angelenos?

If fur trim and fur coats rub you the wrong way, you might consider moving into West Hollywood. The city last night set the stage to become the first in the nation to ban the sale of fur, according to L.A. Now. The West Hollywood City Council heard pleas on both sides of the issue in a debate that went from yesterday evening to the early hours of this morning, according to NBC Los Angeles.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, a Beverly Hills housewife gets even realer, UCLA is busting at the seams, and what will become of fur in West Hollywood? Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

It's a tough break for redheaded men hoping to make a buck off a quick...um...stop at the sperm bank. According to the OC Register, Cryos, one of the largest sperm banks in the world, has stopped taking donations from redheads due to lack of demand.

Ladies of Los Angeles, take heed: your reproductive precautions may have been compromised. According to a statement released by the FDA, several kinds of birth control made by QU pharmaceuticals are being recalled due to a packaging error. In certain lots of products, the blisters -- the plastic bubbles that house each pill -- were rotated, meaning that they no longer line up with the correct day.

Think you may have contracted a bacterial STD recently? Soon, you'll be able to scoot on down to South Los Angeles and pick up a home testing kit to find out for sure. According to CBS News, L.A. county health officials are setting up about eight kiosks in the area that will offer the take-home tests at a lower charge than what a person might pay at a clinic. The effort is intended to combat the fact that our county has the highest rates of chlamydia infections in the country, and the second highest rates of gonorrhea infections.

There's nothing like sitting and enjoying your morning coffee, only to suddenly be disrupted by four police officers standing outside your house with guns raised and aimed in your direction. That's how one Alameda couple started the day yesterday, when officials mistakenly raided their home when they meant to raid the one across the street, according to the Daily Breeze.

A ball of light that flew through the sky last night was neither bird nor plane nor UFO; rather, experts at NASA believe that the object was a firey asteroid, reports NBC Los Angeles. The fireball made its speedy journey at about 7:30 p.m., and was visible to residents across the southwest -- sightings were reported not just in California but in Nevada and Arizona as well.

Scarlett Johansson is fucking PISSED about someone hacking her cell phone and retrieving nude pics of her. First, she enlisted the help of the FBI. Now, TMZ reports that Marty Sing, her lawyer, is going on the offensive, and has sent threatening emails to a number of websites letting them know that if they keep the photos up, they will face legal action.

While walking the red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival for his new movie "Trespass," actor Nicolas Cage relayed to reporters the story of how he once got woken up in his former Orange County home by a naked man wearing Cage's leather jacket and eating a fudgesicle.

Actor Henry Winkler, a.k.a. The Fonz from "Happy Days," was awarded an honorary membership to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire yesterday thanks to his work helping kids with dyslexia, reports the Washington Post. The award was presented to him at the Washington Embassy by British Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald.

A 21-year-old woman from Burbank has been missing since yesterday morning, and police are looking for the public's help in finding her, reports the Daily News. Amanda Salas is described as having unspecified medical problems. She's about 5'3 and 142 pounds, and was last seen barefoot, wearing a gray tank top and blue stretch pants.