Lindsay William-Ross

No wonder kids thinks adults are weird: Sometimes they steal their jewelry! Two stories are making the news-rounds this morning. First, out of Montebello, 42-year-old Belinda Berumen has been arrested for stealing religious jewelry from first and second graders at her child's school. Apparently the six- to eight-year-old set have alluring Christian-themed bling, and Berumen allegedly resorted to good old fashioned trickery to get her hands on the goods.

Photo by McBLG97 via Flickr Despite the inclement weather, it's likely people will still be headed in or out of, or just passing through, Sherman Oaks tonight, and the Los Angeles Police Department will be there to check the sobriety and driver's licenses of those who motor up to their checkpoint tonight. They'll be on Ventura Boulevard between Noble Avenue and the San Diego Freeway from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., and, as usual,...

The National Weather Service says we're getting "a very cold storm system" today and tonight, and it's packing "significant and low level snow." In the mountains, they're due for steady snowfall, and when that very cold air mass settles, the snow level will drop to between 500 and 1500 feet tonight and tomorrow.

Three 18-year-old Bellarmine-Jefferson High School students are now facing felony charges after being connected with a rash of paintball attacks in Burbank, according to 818Now. The three young men were arrested in early February, along with two teens also affiliated with the case. "Eric Monson of Tujunga faces 12 felony counts for assault with a deadly weapon, Kevin Yuenyongsakul of Los Angeles faces five and Julian Stephens of Studio City is facing two, including...

Glenn Allen (via LAFD) Tomorrow, the funeral for Los Angeles city firefighter Glenn Allen will be held Downtown at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The Los Angeles Police Department have advised that there will be hard and soft street closures in effect starting at 6:00 a.m. on Friday, February 25th to accommodate the funeral. The procession begins at 8:30 a.m. from City Hall, and services are scheduled to begin at 9:30...

All hail the OC's Spam King! A Huntington Beach man and his spamming "business" are the focus of a Federal Trade Commission's request to a federal judge to have the operation shut down. Phillip A. Flora allegedly sent millions of illegal spam text messages, of which many "deceptively advertised a mortgage modification website called Loanmod-gov.net," according to the OC Register. Just how much spamming did Flora do? He is thought to have been behind...

Photo by LU5H.bunny via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr It's only been a few months since Los Angeles' historic Union Station was sold to a Texas company, but today the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today announced they have successfully negotiated the purchase of the transit hub property to the tune of $75 million. Involved in the purchase, says Metro, is 38 acres of land and 5.9 million square-feet of...

A 2.7-magnitude earthquake rattled around Huntington Beach this morning at 4:13 a.m., says the USGS. "The earthquake apparently happened along the active Newport-Inglewood fault. There were no reports of injury or damage," notes the Daily Breeze. The quake depth was recorded as 10.8 miles below the surface. Did it shake you out of sleep?...

Photo by CarbonNYC via Flickr A student enrolled in a 24-week security guard course at Coast Career Institute has been arrested following the fatal shooting of his teacher in the classroom. 22-year-old Law Thien Huynh was one of about a dozen students in the vocational class. Huynh left the classroom briefly during Wednesday afternoon's session, say the Los Angeles Police Department, and returned with a handgun, then opened fire. Fellow students say Huynh and...

Photo by Mr. Freshmaker via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Admission to board the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach is usually $25, but there's one opportunity next week when you can say ahoy to the vessel for free. In honor of a rare "royal rendezvous" between Mary and the Queen Victoria on the evening of March 3, guests can witness the special passing of two ships in the Cunard Line, as...

Demarest (left) and Lamprey at the Mai Tai Mixoff (Photo by Caroline on Crack/used with permission) Bar guru and mixologist Aidan Demarest, most recently behind The Spare Room, a swanky bar, bowling, and game lounge tucked inside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, was deemed the master of the Mai Tai last night as part of the crowning event and celebration of all things Hawaii hosted by Los Angeles Magazine. The competition involved a set of...

Four men have been arrested (l-r) Jachin Yi, Peter Kim, Jae Du, and Hwan Huh (LASD) A total of four men, all Korean, have been arrested over a period of several days, for their involvement in an alleged hate crime that took place at a Korean restaurant in Rowland Heights. Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials say that a 25-year-old Chinese American man was the victim of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon following...