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 Jan Krömer via Flickr We get to have a lot more fun with our headlines (as in "Palm Springs Granny Robs Bank While Wearing Floppy Hat," et al) than the folks at more mainstream, big business news outlets. But sometimes, if you catch them at the right time, you can spot a little wink coming from the headline of a post on one of those kinds of sites, like today, at the...

At the Electric Daisy Festival (Photo by Nadia Kovacs/LAist) Organizers of the popular but controversial Electric Daisy Carnival announced yesterday that they were through with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Los Angeles in general, and will be setting up their annual event in Las Vegas come June. "The show must go on," said Pasquale Rotella, CEO of Insomniac, the company that puts on the event. Rotella acknowledged that not having a contract in...

Soft-serve from KindKreme at their Cahuenga Pass location (Photo by Quarrygirl/Used with permission) It was a good try, but Mooi, the raw vegan restaurant in Echo Park, closed up shop last month. Now a quick change-over is taking place at the Sunset Boulevard spot, in preparation for a new vegan bistro and dessert spot, says Echo Park Now. "The owners of Millie’s are teaming up with vegan ice cream company KindKreme to open a...

A heated confrontation between two men identified as transients escalated to violence last night on the Venice Boardwalk, according to LA Now, and as a result, one man is dead and the other has been arrested. The fight took place just after 6 p.m. at Ocean Front Walk and Westminster Avenue. During the altercation, one man took out a knife and attacked the other; the "victim was stabbed eight to nine times," notes the...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 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...