Lindsay William-Ross

A man in his forties thought to be a transient was fatally stabbed early this morning following a fight with two unidentified suspects in Downtown last night. The incident took place around 2 a.m. near the alcove of the Chase Bank building, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A witness says two men who appeared to be African American, fled the scene carrying trash bags, while the victim was left to die on...

Photo by TooMuchFire via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr If the high price of filling up your tank is keeping you from going places in your car, Metro's CEO, Art Leahy, has a proposal for you. The transit agency is considering knocking a buck off the price of their Day Pass, bringing the price for a full day's worth of rides to $5. The decrease would go into effect July 1, and...

For those who like to get to know the local folks making their food (and other assorted treats and items), the Artisanal LA events are a great way to get some great stuff in a fun and interactive setting. For its Spring 2011 installation, Artisanal LA will be setting up shop this weekend (April 16-17) on the top level of Santa Monica Place.

On Monday, the FBI released surveillance footage showing Hirsch in Denver, disembarking a Greyhound Bus (Courtesy Dept. of Justice) A homeless man suspected of setting off a homemade bomb next to the Chabad House in Santa Monica last week was arrested late Monday when he was spotted in the vicinity of the Chabad House in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, according to the LA Times. 60-year-old Ron Hirsch, who sometimes goes by Israel Fisher, fled Los...

Hey, now, whatcha using that free library internet to look at? (Photo by _sarchi via Flickr) What better day is there than the Tuesday than during National Library Week for the Los Angeles City Council's Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee to take up the vital discussion of the permissibility of internet porn in our libraries? Councilman Ed Reyes introduced a motion to explore the topic of accessing x-rated content on public computers, after...

Pink Whiz Kid (Courtesy Sloth of Celerity and Work is Over (Courtesy Everyday Goddess) Just when you thought spotting and hearing tell of new Banksy street art pieces was as over as your day-after-the-Oscars hangover comes a fresh infusion of sightings in the LAist inbox. On Robertson Boulevard near Beverly Hills a wall has been unexpectedly enlivened by the image of a kid peeing in a vibrant shade of pink, points out Sloth of...

Ron Hirsch (Courtesy Santa Monica PD) The 60-year-old homeless man believed to have set off an explosive device next to Santa Monica's Chabad House last week may have left town on a bus bound for New York, reports LA Now. The FBI believe that the suspect, Ron Hirsch, boarded a Greyhound bus on Thursday, however they also think he got off the bus, possibly in Denver, and "further deviated from his original route." Hirsch...

Photo of a Five Guys Burger by mrmatt via Flickr The double burgers, the hand-cut fries, the cheery employees, and the red-and-white decor. We're talking about SoCal's very own In-n-Out, right? Or are we talking about Virginia's upstart and expanding Five Guys? Uh oh. The burger wars are getting intense. Now longtime devotees of In-n-Out's crave-able, affordable, reliable burgers say they are sleeping with the enemy, aka Five Guys. "Will Five Guys overtake In-N-Out?"...

Photo by stevendamron via Flickr The numbers are in, and boy are we distracted. Distracted drivers, that is. The California Highway Patrol, working with 280 police and sheriff's departments, issued at least 2,187 citations over a two-day period for three kinds of distracted driving violations in Los Angeles County. The figures from the concentrated April 4-5 campaign are preliminary, cautions the CHP, since not all the involved agencies have reported their data from the...

Photo by CarbonNYC via Flickr A SWAT operation at a North Hollywood apartment complex lasting several hours ended overnight with no suspect found, according to ABC7. Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a call of multiple shots fired at the building at Oxnard Street and Laurel Canyon Boulevard at around 10 o'clock Sunday night. The officers believed a suspect was barricaded inside the building. On scene was the victim, a man in his...

The making of a "Cachetada" ~ Mexicali Taco Co ~ Baja Night (Photo by R.E. ˜ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Angelenos are loco for tacos! Pitting taco joint against taco joint in an NCAA March Madness bracket-style vote-off, LA TACO's annual Taco Madness let its insanity loose, and last week found Mexicali Taco Company the victor out of a field that began with 32 contenders. Said LA TACO of the...

Zach Behrens/LAist The Los Angeles Police Department have announced the locations of two sobriety and driver's license checkpoints scheduled for this weekend. Tonight, from 8 p.m. to Saturday at 2 a.m. the LAPD will be set up in the Baldwin Hills area on La Brea Avenue between Coliseum Street and Rodeo Road. On Saturday, a checkpoint will be operating from 8 p.m. to Sunday at 2 a.m. in Chatsworth on Topanga Canyon Boulevard between...