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Break out your Gadsden flags and poorly-spelled signs: The Tea Party Express is comin' to town tonight! The nationwide campaign tour stops at 6:30 this evening in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl as part of a 15-day venture--not backed by any individual candidates--ahead of the November 2 midterm elections.

A 16-year-old high school student was killed while he jogged on Woodman Avenue in Sherman Oaks yesterday afternoon. Conor Lynch was struck while attempting to cross the street by a burgundy 2005 Hyundai Santa Fe SUV traveling northbound, reports the LAPD. The vehicle's driver, 18-year-old Moran Biton of Sherman Oaks, did not stop, and continued on for several blocks until stopped by the authorities. Biton has been arrested and booked into Van Nuys jail....

Photo by Chris_Lott via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Jerry Brown's latest ad shows Whitman as an eerie "Echo" of Gov. Schwarzenegger. The body of a man thought to be in his 30s or 40s has been found in a truck parked outside of Jimmy Kimmel's Hollywood theatre. Two LAPD officers in their 20s have been charged with insurance fraud. Following an accident that injured ten passengers, Knott's Berry Farm's Pony Express...

Nguyen Tran of Starry Kitchen representin' for his Sunday crew of Domaine LA and Mandoline Grill (Photo via Starry Kitchen/used with permission) How many food trends can you fit into one afternoon? Well, thanks to Starry Kitchen, the Mandoline Grill truck, and Domaine LA wine shop, you can max out the potential at a fun event planned for Sunday. Nguyen and Thi Tran of Starry Kitchen are taking over the Mandoline Grill truck, and...

One of the 1,095 dinner plates (Photo via Bari Ziperstein's website) From the dinner table to the dish rack to a renowned museum display? Such will be the life of the 1,095 dinner plates collected by L.A.-based artist Bari Ziperstein in the next few weeks as the plates become a one-time site-specific installation piece at LACMA. Part of Fallen Fruit's "Let Them Eat LACMA" event, on November 7th Ziperstein will have all 1,095 plates...

Don't light up a cig at Long Beach's Bluff Park! (Photo by Michael Zampelli via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) A unanimous vote by the Long Beach City Council means smokers are going to have to keep their butts out of local parks, reports the Press-Telegram. Smoking is now banned "in all city parks and other outdoor areas, including picnic areas, playgrounds, sports or playing fields, walking paths, gardens, hiking trails, and...

Photo by nicadlr via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Glimpses of sunshine are expected to be few and far between today and tomorrow, as gray, rainy, wet weather is moving into Southern California once again. Cloudy skies, showers, and thunderstorms are expected, and temperatures will peak in the high 60s. "The wet conditions are expected to continue through the day, with a chance of heavy downpours possible in the afternoon in areas...

Photo by GarySe7en via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A man struck by a Red Line train at the Hollywood and Vine station has been rescued, according to a live report on KTLA. He is in critical condition and has been taken to an area hospital, reports the LAFD via email. At around 7:30 this morning the man fell from the platform at the station, and became trapped between the platform and...

Photo by sun dazed via Flickr The Sherman Oaks clinic favored by adult entertainment industry performers may have missed their legal deadline to report a recent HIV infection documented in their facility to the Los Angeles County Department of Health, according to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) who are closely monitoring the matter. According to a release issued by AHF, the Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Healthcare Foundation Clinic was to have reported the actor's...

A new cookbook aims to turn crowd-sourced material into crowd-pleasing plates, and among those whose eats are included are ten Southern California-based food bloggers. Though collecting a community's recipes to compile in a publication is how many beloved cookbooks have come to be, The Best of Food Blogs Cookbook hails itself as the first to source the recipes from social media.

Dr. Michael Kamrava, a Beverly Hills fertility expert, is on trial in Los Angeles for allegedly violating the terms of his state Medical Board license by implanting multiple embryos in patients, including "OctoMom" Nadya Sulemn. Today his lawyer said Kamrava "told the octuplets' mother about the dangers of bearing multiple babies," according to an AP report (via Daily News). Kamrava's lawyer cites Suleman's records as evidence of her consultations with the doc; an expert...

Photo by KennyJewel via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr RIP: Actress Barbara Billingsley, best known as the TV matriarch June Cleaver, has died. She was 94. Some fuel was spilled into the port of Long Beach during the course of a ship-to-ship transfer. The police were able to help a kidnapping victim after seeing them be abducted into a car in Studio City and following the vehicle to Glendale. A festival in...