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What if some of these burgers from a major food event don't get eaten? (Lindsay William-Ross/LAist) When there's an event in Los Angeles, who gets the leftovers? Thanks to a proposal put forth by Councilman Jose Huizar, soon those in need will. Today the "City Council approved a Chief Legislative Analyst report today with recommendations for approving a citywide policy to donate surplus food to needy food banks and pantries, a critical decision given...

Walking through the DWP Holiday Light Festival in '08 (Photo by RuggyBearLA via LAist Featured Photos) City Councilman Tom LaBonge, whose district includes the historic Griffith Park, is blaming construction in the area for the cancellation of the annual LA DWP Holiday Light Festival celebration, according to LA Now. Fearing it would "cost too much" to pause the project that involves the expansion of a nearby parking lot and the installation of a "major...

The Beverly Hills Police Department arrested three suspects early this morning in connection with yesterday's fatal stabbing in the Trousdale Estates neighborhood, according to LA Now. Though the suspects' names have not been released, authorities have identified the victim as Katsutoshi Takazato, 21, the occupant of the home in the 1800 block of Carla Ridge [map] that "is owned by filmmaker Fuminori Hayashida, who produced several low-budget movies in the late 1990s." Detectives have...

LAPD investigators believe that the shooting that took place Monday afternoon inside an East Hollywood T-Shirt store was a murder-suicide. Officers who arrived to the scene at the Sunset T-Shirts Warehouse at 5401 West Sunset Blvd. [map] found the bodies of 40-year-old Chul Pak of Los Angeles and 50-year-old Marc Bayar of Valley Village. Detectives surmise that Pak first shot Bayar, then turned the gun on himself, using the gun registered to him that...

Two of the 45 people arrested on June 17 in the vicinity of the Staples Center following the Lakers' NBA Championship win have been handed down sentences for their role in the violence that erupted on the streets, according to LA Now. 20-year-old Mark Hull and 22-year-old Carlos Fuentes face 90 days in jail and a year of probation, during which time they must not go near the Staples Center. Hull is in custody...

What can't Betty White do? The last Golden Girl standing is still going strong at 88. She's following up a record-setting appearance on SNL with a new series, and now she's "launching her own line of T-shirts and hoodies that will hit stores in August," says WWD. White is working with Van Nuys-based Jerry Leigh apparel to produce a line of t-shirts and hoodies that boast her image in a variety of artistic renderings....

Norma Lopez (The Riverside Sheriff's Department) A body found yesterday in a remote farming area of Riverside could be that of missing Moreno Valley teen Norma Lopez, however authorities have not been able to immediately determine the body's identity, reports LA Now. 17-year-old Norma Lopez was reported missing last Thursday afternoon, when she did not return as expected from summer school classes at Valley View High School. The body, described as being in "various...

Authorities in Riverside County have confirmed that the human remains found 2.5 miles from Valley View High School in Moreno Valley are that of missing teen Norma Lopez. The 17-year-old went missing last Thursday after her summer school classes. A decomposing body was located in a rural area nearby, and an autopsy conducted this morning confirmed it was that of Lopez, announced an official from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department during a press conference....

LA DWP crews are at work this afternoon to repair a large sinkhole that has opened up on Sunset Blvd. as a result of a water main break that happened earlier this morning. The hole is at Sunset and North Edgemont, near the Kaiser Permanente facilities. Kaiser was without water for a short time this morning, according to a live report on KTLA, however no patients were affected. The DWP says repair work will...

CNN's Budget Travel folks have come up with a list that puts the City of Angels in the Number 2 spot for having the best street food in the world. Citing both the old school vendors who roll their carts through MacArthur Park and the new wave of Twittering "gourmet" eats on wheels (they name Coolhaus [LAist Story] and The Grilled Cheese Truck [LAist Story]), the ranking puts L.A. behind #1 Portland, one of...

Photo by Benjamin Page via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr After two months of reorganization, the famed and historic Pasadena Playhouse has emerged triumphant from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and has just announced plans for their new season, reports the Star-News. Two productions are on tap for the holiday season this year, and tickets for the first show, one-act opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors," go on sale August 20th, for performances in...

Firefighters are responding to a brush fire in La Cañada-Flintridge that is threatening at least one structure, according to cbs2.com. Personnel from Pasadena and Los Angeles City Fire departments are on the scene, which is reported by abc7 as being near 430 Gleneagles Place [map] which is situated in the Angeles National Forest south of the Hahamonga Watershed Park area. The quarter-acre fire was first reported around noon....