Lindsay William-Ross

Just when you thought your days of browsing a big-box national book retailer store were as numbered thanks to the demise of Borders and the fading of Barnes & Noble comes word e-tailer giant Amazon is prepping to launch a physical store.

It's raining, but it's not pouring, and it's not going to, Los Angeles! The big winter storm we were promised yesterday is actually going to be a lot milder than predicted, says the National Weather Service, who have canceled the Winter Weather Advisory formerly in place today for the mountains of L.A. and Ventura counties.

Taking the kids to a theme park is supposed to be an indulgent day of fun flights of fancy, where make believe lets the little ones (and the young at heart) escape for a few hours. But at Legoland something is perhaps afoul in Fun Town and elsewhere in the theme park based on everyone's favorite interlocking plastic bricks.

Lords and Ladies of Los Angeles, prepare to feast and fall back a few hundred years in time at a new theme restaurant opening in Downtown, right across from "ye olde Staples Center," as Grub Street L.A. puts it.

City parks not nice enough for you? Dislike the neighborhood strip joint's employees dancing in their skivvies? Want your street to be renamed? Have beef with big time Hollywood actors? You could go ahead and file a steaming pile of lawsuits and demand cash, which is what one Huntington Beach lady has been busy doing.

Sunday was the Lingerie Bowl, and the Los Angeles Temptation made league history as they took their third consecutive championship by defeating the Philadelphia Passion 28-6 in Lingerie Bowl IX.

Lest the past couple of weeks of summer-in-winter fool you, we are about to be beset with chilly, windy, wet weather more befitting of the actual season. A "wet weather pattern" is poised to develop over SoCal on Tuesday, says the National Weather Service, so your flip flops and short sleeves are getting a one day reprieve.

Two Orange County cities are considering separate ordinances to ban single-use plastic bags. If approved, Dana Point and Laguna Beach would be the first two cities in the OC to put in place such a ban, similar to a ban already implemented in Los Angeles County and cities within LA County.

Three bicyclists were struck and injured by a motorist who was allegedly driving under the influence in Seal Beach Saturday morning. The driver, a 46-year-old woman from Anchorage, Alaska, initially fled the scene near Pacific Coast Highway west of Anderson Street, according to Sgt. John Scott of the Seal Beach Police Department.

Spoons up, and wallets away: It's time to celebrate National Frozen Yogurt Day! You can score some FREE froyo at all Los Angeles locations of Yogurtland today. Sweet!

Authorities are investigating the death of a Monterey Park woman, and her husband appears to be the prime suspect. 39-year-old Chenan Bao's body was discovered with what Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide detectives are calling "suspicious marks" on it. Bao was three months pregnant.

The controversial man who has been the head of a controversial SoCal police force has announced his pending retirement today. Fullerton Police Chief Michael Sellers will retire February 18th.