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Photo by Salina Canizales via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A ramp collapse led to a cement truck flipping and spilling fuel and cement into a local business. What lessons can be learned from the case--and death--of Mitrice Richardson? Authorities in Redlands believe a 15-year-old boy is behind over 100 burglaries and other crimes in recent months. Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor underwent surgery this morning to have a blood clot removed; it...

22-year-old Nancy Salas was sentenced yesterday to three years of probation and "an order for 100 hours of community service," according to abc7. Salas, of Glendale, concocted a kidnapping hoax in May in order to distract her parents from learning she had been lying about being enrolled at UCLA and prepping to graduate. The search for Salas engaged her family and the Glendale PD before Salas showed up in Merced, claiming she'd been snatched....

Oxnard City Hall was locked down on Friday while investigators from the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office served a search warrant, according to the Ventura County Star. The investigation is being done in partnership with the FBI, and seems to be focused on business dealings, though there has been no official comment made about what took place yesterday and what the investigation surrounds. Multiple Oxnard officials have been interviewed recently, and during yesterday's lockdown...

Photo by kimbrough-photo via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr It's a cool, cool summer. In fact, it's downright cold. We set a record yesterday at UCLA, "recording a high of 56 degrees," according to LA Now. The Los Angeles area is "enjoying its coolest summer since 1991." "What has happened to summer in Southern California?" asks a release issued by the National Weather Service. Blame the marine influence of the springtime, they...

A small fire that broke out this afternoon at the Los Feliz 3 Theatre was knocked down within ten minutes, according to e-mail reports issued by the Los Angeles Fire Department. Smoke was visible from the fire, however 30 firefighters were able to get the blaze out quickly. The Art Deco theatre at 1822 N. Vermont [map] first opened in 1934, when it seated 780; it was converted to a triplex in the 1990s....

Photo by dreamcat115 via Flickr For all those in Los Angeles who swear there's no bagel like a New York bagel, you might have something local to chew on soon. "The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. plans to open its first West Coast location on South Beverly Drive by year’s end," reports the Beverly Hills Courier. There's a lot of science around this particular food item, and it's not the molecular gastronomy the BH...

Photo by www.voteJoeC.com via Flickr Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested four Chinese nationals over the weekend as part of a takedown of two brothels operating in the San Gabriel Valley, according to abc7. Among the accusations the suspects face are allegations they recruited young Chinese women "to work as prostitutes in Monterey Park and San Gabriel." To bring the women to America, the suspects, all in their 40s and 50s, allegedly defrauded...

Photo by jericl cat via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The death of a man found inside a parked truck in Montebello has been ruled a suicide by hanging, say authorities. The Anna Nicole Smith trial continues, and testimony revealed that there were 44 different kinds of drugs found at the late model's Bahamas home. Two brothers found dead near their Chino Hills home last month were determined to have died from...

A LASD patrol vehicle on the streets of L.A. (Photo by KingoftheHill via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) New numbers released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department indicate that the region they patrol is experiencing a continuing downward decline in criminal homicides, resulting in the lowest homicide rate since 1975. Preliminary data as of the end of July shows a decrease of 21.43 percent in criminal homicides as compared with the...

Pismo Beach Pier (Photo by bdu via Flickr) The Pismo Beach Pier is home to hundreds of roosting pigeons, and their droppings are leaving behind more than just an unpleasant splotch for visitors, according to cbs2. The "pigeon droppings are responsible for high bacteria levels detected in the ocean near the Pismo Beach Pier," say experts in San Luis Obispo County, where "health officials have periodically posted warnings urging swimmers and surfers to stay...

Road through Malibu Canyon (Photo by aalorber via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) The families of three missing persons are anxiously awaiting word if the human remains found inside Malibu Canyon yesterday afternoon belong to their loved ones. The L.A. Coroner's office has yet to complete the autopsy, though LA Now is reporting that a source within law enforcement has indicated the remains are female. The same source revealed that women's clothing...

A quarantine has been issued for "an 89-square-mile agricultural quarantine area in Los Angeles County after invasive oriental fruit flies were found in Pasadena," according to LA Now. "The area under quarantine is bordered by Figueroa Street on the west, Interstate 10 on the south, Big Santa Anita Wash to the east and the San Gabriel Mountain foothills on the north." Under these orders, plants cannot be moved from properties. The goal is to...