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Nadia Chayka, left, and her fiance Luke Otterstad, both proponents of Proposition 8, hold up a sign outside of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) The legal battle to determine if California will uphold or reject the passing of Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban approved by voters in November 2008, continues today, as a federal appeals court "has asked the California Supreme Court to...

In the great tradition of food-retail media tie-in takeovers, tomorrow four Fatburger locations around the nation will morph into Bob's Burgers, and they'll be handing out free burgers, according to GrubStreet LA. Find your free food at the West Hollywood location, but first download the coupon you'll need to swap for your "Thanks a Brunch Burger." Sorry, Kanye West fans, if the Fatburger franchiser is going to show up to any of the 4,...

Photo by CITIZENDANGERX via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr For those in search of a little consumer-based titillation in the OC city of Lake Forest, your options will remain strictly limited. Yesterday, the Lake Forest City Council "established a temporary moratorium on adult businesses," of at least 45 days, according to the OC Register, giving them time to evaluate if they can allow them to open up anywhere in the city at...

LA County Sheriff Lee Baca says the remains of Mitrice Richardson, the CSU Fullerton student who was missing for nearly a year after being detained at the Lost Hills/Malibu LASD Station, "will be exhumed and sent to the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Va., for further examination," reports LA Now. Richardson's mother requested the FBI's involvement last month, and has upheld her claim the LASD did not properly handle the case or the body. The...

L-R: Carolyn, Michelle, Jonathan and Jasmine Hogan (Photos courtesy LAPD) A mother and her three children from Greensboro, Georgia, have gone missing in Los Angeles, and the LAPD are asking for the public's help in locating the family. The woman, 28-year-old Carolyn Hogan, and her children, Michelle (11), Jonathan (4), and Jasmine (3), were last seen on Monday, January 3, at the Union Rescue Mission in Downtown. The children are under protective order issued...

The Hogan family, comprised of mother Carolyn, and her three children, missing since Monday evening, have just been located in a Santa Monica parking lot. The four had traveled to LA from Georgia, however authorities learned after they left the Union Rescue Mission in DTLA that a protective order had been issued for the kids by a Georgia court, on fears Carolyn could not care for her kids. LA County Sheriff's deputies assisted the...

It's official: Food trucks have gone to the dogs. Well, actually, you can take your dog to a truck that launches January 8th that will sell dog cookies, ice cream, and bake-at-home dough. Give a hearty paw-shake to the Phydough Truck. If the idea of cookies and ice cream from a truck sounds like the territory of LA food truck veterans Coolhaus, that's because Phydough Truck is their pet project. Their dough and cookies...

Photo by Fred Camino via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Metro has put forth a set of bus service changes and cuts that would affect passengers and drivers on 23 lines currently in operation. Before the service reductions would go into place, on June 26, 2011, the nine route cancellations and alterations to service on numerous other lines, Metro will hold a series of public hearings to discuss the changes. Streetsblog LA...

The worlds of food trends and adult entertainment collide yet again, with Ron Jeremy as the conduit, with word that there is a new porn film coming out January 25th set in the wild, sausage-laden world of...food trucks! The Daily Dish has the deets about "The Flying Pink Pig," which stars Jeremy and Nicki Hunter, whose characters "attempt a hostile takeover of the Flying Pink Pig truck, which is staffed by an outrageous group...

One agitated pedestrian is learning the pain of road rage after accidentally shooting himself in the leg during a confrontation on a Hawthorne Street. 21-year-old Dennis Vilchis of L.A. attempted to pull his handgun from his waistband to brandish at a motorist who didn't stop for his street-crossing Sunday morning "near the intersection of Prairie Avenue and El Segundo Boulevard," but wound up firing at his own thigh. Vilchis was listed in serious condition;...

Who knew golf carts were such a hot bed of controversy, as well as a microcosm for the perils of local government? After 40 years of operation by J.H. Kishi Co., the golf cart rental biz on municipal golf courses in Los Angeles is now being run by the City, and things are getting off to a rocky start, according to the Daily News.

For a while here in LA they were as ubiquitous among the crunchy granola set as Uggs on bare-legged teens in short skirts at The Grove, and now Crocs have been caught in a dirty lie, reports TreeHugger. They said their shoes, made of PCCR, were "antimicrobial." And, oops, they aren't. "After discovering the false claim, the EPA has told the company pay $230,000 'to resolve cases involving unsubstantiated antimicrobial claims for several types...