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One upcoming event will surely appeal to food-loving bicyclists.Tour de Taste, a new fundraising event presented by the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, will find riders pedaling and pausing to enjoy some delicious eats.

President Barack Obama is returning to Los Angeles Wednesday for another campaign fundraising visit, and he'll follow that up with a trip to Orange County for more of the same. So, naturally, Angelenos are already bracing for a potential Obamajam, aka major traffic snafus courtesy the Commander in Chief's motorcade.

A woman's body found up a tree in Australia has been identified as 22-year-old Melissa Joy Dietzel of Redlands. Local investigators in Sydney are treating the death as a suicide, though they do not know exactly how the body of the young woman, in Australia working as a nanny, came to be up the tree.

Do atheists really make better lovers? That's the claim made on a new Valentine's Day-inspired billboard erected in Westminster by a group of Fountain Valley-based non-believers.

When a celebrity dies, tradition dictates that fans flock to their star on the famous Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard to leave cards, notes, flowers, photos, candles and other offerings in tribute. But when Whitney Houston died Saturday, there was no slab of sidewalk devoted to the legendary singer: She doesn't have a star on the Walk of Fame!

Today is International Condom Day, and no better day to kick off the Condom Nation tour, as an 18-wheeler departs on a six-month-long 20 state tour to distribute millions of free condoms.

"We do not know the cause of death," said Lt. Mark Rosen of the Beverly Hills Police Department during a press conference held at 11:30 this morning regarding the late Whitney Houston. The singer was found dead in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday afternoon.

A woman who pulled over and got out of her car to help an ailing animal in Griffith Park this weekend was killed in a hit-and-run, reports KTLA. Zina Freeley, 66, who went by her maiden name Zina Bethune, was struck by two different vehicles on Forest Lawn Drive shortly after midnight Sunday.

Quick: Name your top three favorite Austrian eats. Errr...schnitzel? Um...does beer count? If you are curious about Austrian cuisine, an expat, or an expert, BierBeisl, a new restaurant opening up promises to be "the first and only Authentic Austrian restaurant in Los Angeles."

Hollywood is going to give "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening the ultimate forever Valentine and an early birthday gift tomorrow as he's honored with the 2,459th star on the Walk of Fame.

Things are moving at a whirlwind pace for GOP Presidential candidate hopeful Newt Gingrich, who will make a stop in Los Angeles today as part of a three-day eight fundraiser tour of California. The main purpose for Gingrich's Southland sojourn is to raise some much-needed cash for what Politico calls his "campaign’s dwindling bank account."

The family of singer Whitney Houston has been told the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office no longer needs to hold her body, and they are free to collect her remains and make funeral arrangements, according to a coroner's lieutenant, reports City News Service.