Lindsay William-Ross

AS IF The Grove on Black Friday isn't crazy enough, Sprinkles is upping the game for their new location's opening event. The newest outpost of Sprinkles will debut at The Grove on Black Friday, and they have another tantalizing and valuable ingredient going into a few of their creations that will make a few lucky shoppers very happy.

In a second and deciding vote taken today, the Los Angeles City Council has approved placing a half-cent sales tax hike on the March ballot. Aimed at countering a $216 million deficit in the 2013-14 fiscal year city budget, the proposed tax increase is anticipated to bring in up to $215 million in revenue.

As part of an ongoing effort to get intoxicated drivers off the roads and educate the public about the hazards of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the Los Angeles Police Department has announced a handful of planned sobriety and driver's license checkpoints around the city for the upcoming Thanksgiving long weekend.

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There's breakfast, and then there are breakfast sandwiches. At Downtown's The Parish, it's all about those sandwich creations when it comes to the morning meal.

A fight among a small group of people shopping at a Boyle Heights supermarket got into a fight that escalated into a shooting, leaving one woman wounded.

Four Southern Californian residents have been charged for their roles in a plot to provide material support to terrorists as part of a plan to kill American targets, according to the FBI. The four men are suspected of making arrangements to join up with Al-Qai'da and the Taliban in Afghanistan in order to participate in the terrorist plot.

A little Southern inspiration has settled in Venice on Abbot Kinney with the arrival of a permanent location of Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (WiSC).

If you source your news from Taiwanese animation videos produced by NMA, you would learn an interesting alt version of the SaMo nativity scene ban saga.

A woman who led Costa Mesa police on a chase Monday wound up jumping from a freeway overpass during the pursuit, and surviving the fall. The 33-year-old unidentified woman driving a pickup truck was being pulled over by authorities for traffic violations at about 10:45 a.m. Monday.