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Photo by Nuno_Oliveira via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr It was the second time in two days officers killed a suspect in Downey; today they shot & killed a man wielding a hatchet who was walking in traffic and would not drop his weapon. Authorities have identified the dead body found yesterday in the Angeles National Forest as 18-year-old Ramon Sibrian of Pacoima. How many of our CSU and UC campuses have...

Students Run L.A. participants from Hollenbeck Middle School (via SRLA Students site) Thanks to a program founded in 1995, hundreds of Los Angeles Unified School District students are running around the city today. They're taking part in the 25th Annual LA Marathon via a program for teens called Students Run L.A., which provides at-risk youth with mentoring and training in preparation for today's run. Over 5,000 students have participated since the program began; today...

1949 photo from Red Velvet Collection by Tom Kelley In May 1949, nobody knew who Marilyn Monroe was--including Marilyn herself. That was when the 22-year-old model and would-be starlet shed her clothes for a photography session here in Los Angeles that would bring her much attention, and for the photographer's family, legal woes over four decades after her death, according to the Pasadena Star-News. A Pasadena-based lawyer is representing the heirs of Tom Kelley,...

Photo by shioshvili via Flickr World Water Week starts today and runs through March 27th, and as a part of this effort to bring awareness to the global crisis of a lack of potable water several Los Angeles restaurants are participating in the Tap Project. During this week, guests dining at participating restaurants can donate $1 or more for their glass of water with their meal--the drinkable water that is typically free for us,...

The 25,000 runners comprising the sell-out group of participants took to the glorious new Stadium to the Sea route of the LA Marathon in what commentators couldn't help but refer to a "sea of humanity," but one man and one women were destined to be deemed winners in this 25th annual running

Photo by Jeff T. Alu via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Police have confirmed the finding of a body at mile marker 14 in Little Tujunga Canyon today; Sheriff's deputies will handle the case because it is within Angeles National Forest. A federal appeals court decided yesterday that the estate of Anna Nicole Smith will not get any of her late husband's fortune, bringing to end years of legal battles over money...

A collision involving a Metrolink train and a Union Pacific maintenance truck has left one dead and two injured, according to LA Now. The train was bound for San Bernardino from Union Station, and collided with the truck at around 9:20 a.m. when it reached the crossing at Temple Avenue, located near the 605 Freeway where the City of Industry meets unincorporated Bassett. of the over 130 people on board, two were taken to...

Actress Brittany Murphy was taking hundreds of prescription pills a month prior to her death, and was even using an alias to obtain additional and often duplicate scrips, according to TMZ. The gossip site notes: "Pharmacy records show Murphy was getting regular scrips for hydrocodone (Vicodin), clonazepam and Klonopin (anti-anxiety), and Vicoprofen (a Vicodin/ibuprofen combo) -- doubling up on some prescriptions on certain months," in quantities sometimes as much as 100-300 of each drug....

AP Photo/Reed Saxon The sushi restaurant that was exposed for selling endangered sei whale meat will be closing its doors today after 12 years of business in Santa Monica, according to MyFoxLA. The Hump will close permanently--and voluntarily today in a move described as "a self-imposed punishment" on the restaurant's website. Offering an apology to the sushi restaurant's many loyal customers, the notice posted online continues: The Owner of The Hump also will be...

Courtesy OC District Atorney's Office Police found over 1,000 photographs of girls and young women inside the storage locker of Rodney Alcala when he was arrested for the 1979 murder of Huntington Beach teenager Robin Samsoe, reports the Daily News. Now the authorities have released some of the images, many of which are of nude girls and children, and the process of identifying who is in the photos--and if they were possibly victims of...

If you've been out around town today you may have noticed that preparations are underway for tomorrow's sold-out running of the Los Angeles Marathon, and the exciting new Stadium to the Sea route means that the 25k runners and spectators will be taking to the streets in a big, big way come morning. Be sure to double check the street closures that go into effect overnight in Los Angeles and in other cities through...

Baca in a Feb. 2010 appearance (Photo by NewsSpy via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) During a hearing yesterday in DC, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca got into an argument with Republican congressman from Indiana Mark Souder after "the lawmaker questioned his relationship with an Islamic nonprofit group," according to LA Now. Souder's questioning about Baca's attendance at fundraisers for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) angered Baca, who disagreed vociferously...