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Photo by Grant Palmer Photography via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The man behind an illegal supergraphic billboard at Hollywood & Highland was arrested on Friday night. Two Los Angeles ex-pats living in Santiago, Chile, have been blogging about life in their new South American home--and about yesterday's massive quake. A police standoff surrounding a domestic violence situation in Tarzana ended peacefully after nine hours this morning. Theatre company A Noise Within,...

Photo by therealquarrygirl via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Burbank's Bob Hope Airport's ranking among airports of its size dropped from 12th to 15th in a national passenger survey. Over at LAX today, a Southwest Airlines flight turned around and landed safely when they began to experience engine problems shortly after takeoff en route to San Jose. Did actress Brittany Murphy take all but 11 of the 120 Vicodin pills she picked...

Photo by monkeytime via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The rainstorm that settled in over Southern California overnight and early this morning has been "dumping steady rain," and has caused the "flooding [of] some roads but so far causing no major mudslides," according to LA Now. About .8 of an inch of rainfall was logged by 4 a.m. in downtown, however we can expect "1-2 inches of rain before the storm moves...

The LAPD will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. tonight on Topanga Canyon Boulevard between Califa Street and Marylee Street in Woodland Hills. "During this year, residents residing in the Topanga Area endured 19 driving under the influence-related and 99 hit and run traffic collisions," explains an LAPD release. As always, the goal of these operations is not to give intoxicated drivers the chance to plan a detour, but...

While here in Los Angeles and the greater Southern California area are anticipating Pacific wave activity as a result of today's early morning devastating 8.8 quake off the coast of Chile, many are working diligently reach loved ones in South America and regions under more serious tsunami warnings. Additionally, many here might be interested in ways to help out in the relief and recovery in Chile, and as a result, Google has just launched...

Michael Blosil, the 18-year-old son of performer Marie Osmond, reportedly committed suicide last night in Los Angeles, according to Entertainment Tonight and other news sources. Michael "died after jumping from his downtown Los Angeles apartment at about 9 p.m. on Friday night." The teen "left a note explaining he intended to commit suicide due to his life-long battle with severe depression that left him, he said, feeling as if he had no friends and...

National Weather Service map shows scope of tsunami warning for the North American West Coast A tsunami advisory has been issued for the California coast this morning following the overnight magnitude-8.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile, according to the LA Times. "An advisory means there may be strong currents, but that widespread inundation is not expected to occur." Coastal cities are being cautioned to "prepare for possible tsunami waves." The West...

Photo by jakrapong via Flickr Some businesses are so excited to receive customer feedback that they put up signs asking patrons to leave a rating on the popular website Yelp. Sometimes questioned for their dubious methods, Yelpers these days can have a profound impact on a business' success or failure. Two law firms representing a Long Beach veterinary hospital have filed suit against Yelp, however, alleging "that the heavily funded startup runs an 'extortion...

Photo by Bob Kent via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr One more kid for Octomom Nadya Suleman? She says yes, but...she's waiting to get married. Authorities have confirmed that a young woman who committed suicide in her car in Castaic had been reported missing from West Covina. General Motors announced today that they are going to put an end to their Hummer brand; they've been trying to sell it off for years,...

Photo by VintageSon Foto via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Wife of slain Olympian shot-putter claims she killed her husband after suffering years of abuse at his hand. The Dalai Lama shared his message of peace with a crowd gathered to hear him yesterday at Universal City. Officials in Long Beach are seeking backing for a plan to improve the Gerald Desmond Bridge, which is similar to the one that collapsed in...

Photo by Joits via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A $1.25-billion expansion project at Los Angeles International Airport gets underway today as officials are scheduled to break ground for "one of the largest public works projects in the history of Los Angeles," according to cbs2. The Bradley West Project, approved last fall, is a massive modernization endeavor that will create "nine new boarding gates to accommodate the new generation of larger planes,...

Photo by Elise Thompson/LAist LAist was among the thousands who made it into last week's delicious--and crowded--Street Food Festival (and no kittens were harmed). Seattlest broke with Lent to try crack pie, a dessert so delicious that it ought to be as illegal as its namesake. Torontoist got the scoop on a massive concert timed for the G20 summit this summer that—with 700,000 people over two days and 300 million watching worldwide—organizers are claiming...