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The owner of a Pomona bakery has filed a claim with Los Angeles County after alleging one of their health inspectors groped her while visiting her shop as part of his job duties, according to cbs2. The bakery proprietor says that Magdy Tawadros "used his position to intimidate her and tried repeatedly to hug her in a back room of her business last month." The encounter was captured on the bakery's surveillance camera, and...

Courtesy LAPD The LAPD are looking for a bicycle thief described as being "bold and brazen," thanks to his frequent and consecutive thefts from Downtown locations, according to a press release. At the end of March, the LAPD captured surveillance photos of the suspect who stole two bicycles from the US Bank Tower garage in the space of 40 minutes, and then another one four days later from the bike rack at the City...

Photo by parlance via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Police in Alhambra are investigating the case of a man found bloody on a neighbor's porch, who claimed just before he died days later he had been assaulted. The trucker whose runaway big rig killed a man and his daughter a year ago in La Cañada will indeed face murder charges, says a state appeals court. The LAUSD today decided to hold off...

Coffee Cake from Tart; read the story here (Lindsay William-Ross/LAist) You were probably just thinking: "Man, Coffee Cake gets no respect!" And you're almost right. In a city that worships the cupcake, the red velvet pancake, and those steel cut oats your trainer insists you start the day with, there's little room for mention all the other 364 days of the year for the good old fashioned coffee cake. Since we're suckers for oddball...

Roy Choi inside the KogiBBQ truck (Tom Andrews/LAist) Honorees named as Food & Wine mag's "Best New Chefs" of 2010 will be formally announced and celebrated tonight at a party in NYC, but news of who made the list broke a little earlier via F&W's iPhone app, according to GrubStreet. Los Angeles can boast one person on the list of ten, and it's someone who up until recently has been doing his cooking on...

Get here faster from LAX (Photo by elainedawn via Flickr) Horizon Air will be offering daily flights from April 12th through September between Los Angeles International (LAX) and the Mammoth Yosemite Airport (MMH), according to KPCC. The flight is 70 minutes and priced at $69 each way. The airport is located about 15 minutes from Mammoth Mountain, and also near Yosemite National Park and Devils Postpile National Monument, if you're interested in activities beyond...

US Weekly recently released this photo of James When Sandra Bullock accepted her Best Actress Oscar last month, her acceptance speech included a beautiful tribute to her husband of 5 years, Long Beach's West Coast Choppers' Jesse James. But soon after rumors of his infidelities surfaced, stirring up controversy and signaling the end of a martial union that may not have been so idyllic. While James' reputation has been far from pristine, gossip site...

From California's 1st legal same-sex wedding. (Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist) A second poll conducted in the past few weeks indicates that same-sex marriage has increasing--and now majority--support from California's voters, according to LA Now. In a Los Angeles Times/USC poll, registered voters who were surveyed "said 52% to 40% that 'same-sex couples should be allowed to become legally married in the state of California.'" The poll also indicated that support for gay marriage has...

The Century Lot in full swing (Photo courtesy Matt Geller/SoCalMFVA) A new food truck lot made its debut just in time for lunch today, but it's certainly not in Paul Koretz's council district. The Century Lot is located at the Crowne Plaza near LAX (that's Rosendahl's CD11), and today has hosted nine of the city's mobile eateries: Worldfare, Don Chow's Tacos, The Buttermilk Truck, Kabob N Roll, Komodo Food, India Jones, The Nom Nom...

Seismologists at CalTech have sprung into action to begin work to determine precisely how big this afternoon's earthquake in Baja, California was, and to get information about its depth, epicenter, and faultline. As is always the case with seismic activity, there is a 5 % chance that there is a larger quake to come in the next 24 hours from the same fault line. Initially reported as a 6.9 magnitude, the earthquake has been...

Did you feel it? Described by many turning to Twitter to share their quake reactions here in Los Angeles as a long, rolling motion, what we felt was what preliminary reports are estimating is a 6.9 earthquake "26 km (16 miles) SSW of Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico," according to the USGS. It happened at just after 3:40 this afternoon. Guadalupe Victoria is located about 108 miles ESE of Tijuana. "That was easily the...

Photo by Open Air Control Testing Ground via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The "Sunrise" service has been canceled this year, but thousands will still flock to the Hollywood Bowl for Easter at the Bowl, hosted by Bel Air Presbyterian Church. How's this for sort-of encouraging? Californians have a "generally positive" view of health care, according to a poll. A 25-year-old male UCLA student has been arrested on suspicion of the attempted...