Lindsay William-Ross

Three Lancaster women who profited from the kindness of strangers have been arrested for running a donation scheme involving a baby's funeral. The women were standing on the street corner asking for money to help pay for the funeral of an 18-month-old boy.

Here's the tally from the Drug Enforcement Administration for last Saturday's Prescription Drug Take-Back Event: Los Angeles area residents turned in 16,560 pounds of medicine - more than 8 tons. Dang. That's a lot of pills!

One of the last places you might expect to find thoughtful, handcrafted specialty cocktails using fresh ingredients would be in a British-style Pub amidst the scene and sounds of Hollywood's Cahuenga Corridor. But the Blue Boar Pub is shaking up some stand-out drinks.

When it comes to changing the color of your eyes, those colored contact lenses are child's play compared to what one Laguna Beach firm says they can do. A process called Lumineyes uses a laser to permanently turn brown eyes blue. Is this the next wave of vanity surgery?

When Bank of America announced they were going to implement a $5 monthly fee for debit card users, Americans signed on in protest, and BofA relented. Still, Americans are mad as hell about big banks, and on Saturday, November 5, they will not take it any more: It's Bank Transfer Day.

You didn't think something like Bank Transfer Day would be ushered in quietly, did you? That's definitely not the case, as cities across the nation are going to show their support for consumers moving their money from big banks to credit unions November 5 by holding marches and rallies.

Now that Frank McCourt has agreed to sell the Dodgers, high-profile Angelenos are coming forward with suggestions as to who should buck up and purchase the fiscally shaky Major League Baseball franchise. If you ask L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (you didn't, but, no surprise, he's offered) the answer is it must be a local.

One of Angelenos' biggest grumbles about taking public transit at night is that service is limited, both in frequency and how late the service runs. Now Metro says they are about to launch what they're calling a "major expansion" of night service on their rail lines. So what kinds of big changes can we expect?

The Los Angeles Police Department say they are focusing on the last batch of women depicted in photographs seized from the residence of Grim Sleeper serial killer, Lonnie Franklin Jr. Of the initial 180 females whose images were included in Franklin's extensive collection, a "Final Forty-Eight" are the last to be identified, and possibly counted among his victims, say the LAPD.

If you get stuck in some heinous traffic this morning in Hollywood, blame Twilight. Thanks to a 10:30 a.m. handprint ceremony at the Chinese Theatre for the bloodsucking sensation film franchise's Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, streets in the area will be closed down to make room for the stars...and their hordes of screaming fans.

Authorities in Beverly Hills are waving off claims made by a woman who said she "was sexually assaulted by two men at a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills," according to KTLA. The alleged victim, a guest at the Montage Beverly Hills, says she was attacked early this morning in her room.

Remember John Haig Marshall of Redondo Beach? The former reserve police officer in his mid-50s has pleaded no contest on accusations he drugged, raped, and shaved the body hair of his onetime "drinking buddy," a 29-year-old former pal. Marshall was sentenced today to serve three years as part of a plea deal.