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Photo by jondoeforty1 via Flickr A report assembled two years ago by the FAA claims that two runways at LAX are unsafe, as evidenced by the high frequency of "close calls between planes on the ground," according to the Daily News. In fact, we had more of those close calls than at any other US airport. While the FAA continues to stand by their report, a new unrelated report released in February asserts "there's...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Photo by jakerome via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The grassroots movement to encourage Manhattan Beach city officials to re-open Sand Dune Park continues to push forward ahead of an April 13th meeting where the recreation site's fate will be discussed. LAist Featured Photos pool contributor, and "Free the Dune" campaign leader Jake Rome shared this image with us that maps out just how "community" oriented this campaign is. Rome explains: Almost...

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...