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Photo by Purple Blossom via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr "I just had the most delicious Tri-tip flatbread pizza everrrrrrr!" exclaims LAist Featured Photos pool contributor Purple Blossom about a recent visit to Valencia's Tri-Tipps. "This was our first time to that restaurant. We also had tritip taco..and they're good too! The beef was so moist, tender and flavorful. The service is so nice and friendly. Definitely a favorite place." Submit your...

The Get Yourself Tested badge If you use Foursquare, you might enjoy the silly fun of trying to earn a new "merit" badge for your collection. One way to land a new badge is to find out if you have an STD. Seriously. Through the "It's Your (Sex) Life" campaign run via MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation, there's a Foursquare badge you can pick up while getting tested, explains CNN's health blog The...

Photo by versageek via Flickr A reminder that the Los Angeles Police Department and authorities from various city agencies in Orange County will be conducting DUI and driver's license checkpoints tonight as part of a statewide effort this holiday weekend to crackdown on drunk driving. Saturday in the West Adams/Jefferson Park/USC campus area: Jefferson Boulevard and Western Avenue from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. (map) Saturday in Venice: Washington Boulevard and Stanford Avenue from...

Inside a terminal at LAX (Photo by Gamma Infinity via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Passengers coming in and out of Los Angeles International Airport early this morning found three of the airport's terminals temporarily shut down due to what is being called "a security snafu," according to LA Now. It was an unguarded exit that prompted the Transportation Security Administration to call for the closure at around 4:30 a.m. However, by...

The streets of South L.A. had a different kind of thug rolling--or slithering--around today: A 5-foot-long snake. The snake, though perhaps to have been a boa constrictor, was found by a woman "in the strip of grass between the sidewalk and West 46th Street, between Denker and Halldale avenues," according to cbs2. The woman called the fire department who were able to get "the snake into a five-gallon bucket" to "be turned over to...

Photo by Keith Skelton - Chiaroscuro Photo Workshops via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flick One very generous donor has just funded every California school wish list registered with DonorsChoose.org. An 84-year-old man was found dead inside his ransacked Monterey Hills home; authorities are calling it a homicide. Actor Michael Douglas has begun to speak out about his treatment for stage-four throat cancer. To the north of us...the bizarre story of a 49-year-old...

Sheriff's deputies served a search warrant on a home on the 26500 block of Pegasus Way which is occupied by a family of three, including "a father, a mother and their 24-year-old son." As part of the search, authorities seized "a green Mitsubishi SUV," which may be the vehicle witnesses reported as the green SUV they saw near the area where Lopez was abducted as she walked home from her summer school classes at Moreno Valley High School in July.

Photo by versageek via Flickr The Los Angeles Police Department are not alone in their wish to eradicate drunk drivers from the Southern California roads and highways. This holiday weekend, local police departments all over Orange County will be running DUI and Drivers' License Checkpoints, as well as saturation patrols, according to the OC Register. Each city's police department has issued varying levels of details regarding their planned action; all are participating as part...

15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez died of an ecstasy overdose, came the official ruling from the Los Angeles County coroner's office yesterday, according to the AP. The teenager had been at the Electric Daisy Carnival during the last weekend in June this summer when she collapsed amidst the crowd. When she fell, Rodriguez hit her head, and while her friends tried to shield her from being trampled, the crowd overwhelmed them.

Photo by Mike Baird via Flickr It's a whale watchers' paradise these days off the coast in Palos Verdes, San Pedro, Long Beach, and other SoCal seaside areas, thanks to the prolific numbers of Great Blue Whales in the waters, reports the Daily Breeze. Blue whales have only been spotted off our shores in the past five or so years, maybe one or two at a time. However lately, more and more are spending...

Human remains were discovered inside a vehicle that had been left burning underneath the 101 Freeway in Studio City. The LAFD responded to the fire call just after 3 this morning, and found the "dark colored 1989 Toyota Camry" parked on Radford Avenue at Hortense under the overpass, according to a live report on KTLA. The body was discovered once the blaze was extinguished, and the LAPD subsequently notified. The authorities have "determined that...

Photo by brandongreeleyphotogrpahy via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr "A Sun Valley wedding reception turned deadly early Sunday after an argument led to the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man." [LA Now] "A ceramic mural with an ocean scene [was] unveiled at 1 p.m. today, the latest marker for San Pedro's tony South Shores neighborhood." [Daily Breeze] In Santa Ana: "Police arrested two juveniles believed to be gang members on suspicion of...