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Photo by sweatpantsmoney via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A $50k reward has been offered to help the LAPD solve the case of a Sylmar birthday parting shooting that wounded six people, including kids. While training in Long Beach, a helicopter pilot and his student were injured in a crash at the airport. The winning $30M SuperLotto ticket was bought at a 7-Eleven in Thousand Oaks. A recent diesel spill at a...

Photo by Lucyrk in LA via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A vote is set for this afternoon by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to decide if the current letter grading system for restaurants should be expanded to include food trucks, according to LA Now. As proposed, the ordinance would cover pretty much all mobile food, whether it is for people or animals, a cart or a truck or any...

An El Monte watering hole has been cited for offering "female companionship for men willing to pay more for their drinks," reports the Pasadena Star-News. The shady dealings were allegedly going down at the Halcon Bar & Cafe on Garvey Avenue, where workers "would add a surcharge to drinks in exchange for providing women to keep the men company," which happens to be illegal....

Photo by meddzilla via the LAist Featured Photos pool A Monrovia man has been arrested for his alleged role in the kidnapping of two Anaheim children. The Beverly Hills property that was home to the long-vacant Robinson's May has been sold. What's going in? Luxury condos, of course! A 24-year-old woman was attacked while she walked on a Mt. Rubidoux hiking trail with her daughter. Say what? "A man was hospitalized in critical condition...

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and President Barack Obama are scheduled to meet tomorrow in the nation's capital to discuss federal funding for transit projects in Los Angeles, according to the Daily News. The Mayor "has been seeking congressional support for a plan to accelerate the construction of 12 major transit projects in Los Angeles County," and this marks his third visit to DC in four weeks. Several other state and city leaders, as well as...

A mole dish (Photo by Gorski via Flickr) La Feria de Los Moles is an annual celebration of the traditional Mexican mole sauce, and this year the showdown is focused on a battle between the styles and flavors of Puebla versus Oaxaca. This event, in its third year, "is organized by the immigrant community of Puebla and Oaxaca residing in United States and is sponsored by City Councilman Jose Huizar and the Los Angeles...

What was thought to have been a possible explosion set off in a parked vehicle in San Pedro this morning had the Los Angeles Police Department on a city-wide tactical alert, reports the Daily News. The bomb squad was called out to the enclosed ground-level parking garage of the Clarion Inn on S. Gaffey to inspect the damaged vehicle, while the "Harbor (110) Freeway's access to San Pedro was closed, and businesses in a...

Photo by R.E.˜ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The Los Angeles Times has endorsed incumbent Debra Bowen for California's Secretary of State. A woman in her 60s suffered minor injuries after her vehicle went down the side of the hill on Malibu Canyon Road yesterday. Firefighters in Santa Clarita quickly put out a 3-acre brush fire in the Newhall Pass. Two suspects thought to be behind a series of Orange County...

It's a good time to be a logo. Or is it? After clothing retailer The Gap unveiled their "new look," came the news Friday that Beverly Hills-based social networking site MySpace has a new logo, too. The result, as unveiled at the Warm Gun Design conference in San Francisco, replaces the all-lowercase "myspace" next to three cylindrical body-like shapes with the word "my" in black Helvetica followed by...a space. The "space" is symbolized with...

Surveillance image of suspect The FBI believe it was the same suspect who robbed a La Crescenta Bank of America branch three years ago, and in September of this year. They are calling him the "Green Tattoo" bandit because of the green-reddish tattoos he sports on the back of his neck, as noted by witnesses. The suspect is thought to have committed at least two bank robberies; his method is to hand the teller...

Riders on the Pony Express in 2008 (Photo by Magic Madzik via Flickr) 10 people were injured when two roller coaster trains collided in the station of the Pony Express ride at Knott's Berry Farm on Thursday, according to the Daily News, and now the theme park says state inspectors and the ride's manufacturer will be checking out the ride next week. The ride's trains collided "where park guests board the ride when a...

Photo by terren in Virginia via Flickr As part of a multi-agency effort, 16 marijuana facilities in four counties were raided this week, according to LA Now. Law enforcement personnel seized a total of 78 pounds of pot, as well as several snack items laced with the drug, including "pot-laced crisped rice treats, orange drinks," and sugary cereals likened to "Froot Loops or Apple Jacks." According to officials involved in the raids that happened...