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Lindsay William-Ross

Stories by Lindsay William-Ross

  • A young man suspected of carrying a gun and threatening to use it on the California State University, Northridge campus has been identified as 22-year-old Gahren Moradian of Burbank. Moradian, a CSUN philosophy student, surrendered to the police at approximately 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to a campus spokesperson.
  • Youth, they say, is wasted on the young, and in Newport Beach, it seems an alarming number of the young are wasted on heroin. Authorities there are cautioning locals that there has been in increase in arrests in conjunction with heroin use and sales, according to the OC Register.
  • HazMat has been called to the CBS Television City studio this afternoon to investigate a report that some white powder "spilled out of a letter" being handled in the mailroom. Who was the (un)lucky recipient? It's not known yet to whom the piece of mail was addressed.
  • Milton Bradley, a onetime Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder, is out on bail today following his arrest Tuesday on suspicion of felony battery. The 33-year-old ballplayer who is no stranger to law enforcement, was arrested at about 2 p.m. yesterday at his home in the 5300 block of Oak Park Avenue in Encino.
  • If you are as hooked on that first-thing-in-the-morning caffeine jolt as many of us are, every day in the U.S.A. is "coffee day." So every coffee drinker has their day, but tomorrow is the day for coffee drinkers. September 29th is National Coffee Day.
  • Which of the lovebirds in the May-December romance of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher has been given marching orders out of the relationship? If we're to believe what the great media gossip machine says, it's Kutcher who is in the doghouse, having brought down the six-year marriage with a dalliance with a young woman he met in a San Diego nightclub. Say it isn't so, Ashton!
  • A man California State University, Northridge campus police spent much of Tuesday searching for turned himself in late in the evening yesterday. Following reports of a man with a gun in the school's Oviatt Library yesterday, authorities launched a manhunt that they ultimately called off around dinnertime after the suspect and his alleged weapon did not turn up.
  • She's a native Angeleno and the progeny of a Hollywood icon, and now actress Mariska Hargitay is paying it forward for young actors. The "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" star has given her alma mater, the UCLA School of Theater Arts and Television, $100,000 for an acting scholarship.
  • Uh Huh Her rocker and "L-Word" actress Leisha Hailey and her girlfriend, bandmate Camila Grey, are speaking out today against Southwest Airlines after the couple were asked to leave their flight in El Paso bound for Los Angeles because they shared what the rockers say was a simple kiss.
  • Are you looking to buy a family home in La Habra? If so, you might be interested in one with an infamous departing tenant: "Octomom" Nadya Suleman has put her home on the market, and she's hoping her fame will bring her a buyer.
  • President Obama is set to fly out of Los Angeles International Airport this morning at 10:30 a.m., on a flight bound for Denver, Colorado. The Commander-in-Chief still needs to get from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, however, to his flight, and that means traffic will be affected.
  • Artists and other L.A. residents are speaking out against the city's current crackdown on public art, and are calling for an end to what's being called the "mural moratorium." With much of what was previously considered public art, including murals on private property, now classified as advertising or "signage," there are fewer and fewer legal outlets for artists.