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The best way to control rumors most often is to confront them head-on, which NBC has done today via NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin, who revealed just this morning that Jay Leno's "nightly prime-time show will end with the beginning of the Winter Olympics on Feb. 12," reports KTLA. According to Gaspin, Leno is being courted for an 11:35 p.m. half-hour slot, thereby bumping Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Fallon back a half-hour,...

Photo by i_hate_my_screen_name via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The search for Mitrice Richardson drew 300 volunteers to Malibu Canyon today, but the woman remains missing. A 7-year-old boy was stabbed to death last night in Long Beach. RIP Art Clokey, the animator behind Gumby. He died yesterday at age 88. Torrance has turned to the web to get input on upcoming park renovation and space-conversion projects. The LA Times profiles bartender...

Authorities in Big Bear are searching for the suspect in a hit-and-run incident that took place on the slopes of Bear Mountain Ski Resort and left a nine-year-old girl injured, according to cbs2. The collision took place Saturday January 2nd at approximately 1 p.m. "The suspect is described as a white male between 25-30 years old, and approximately 5'10" - 6'2" tall. He was reportedly wearing a black and white jacket, black pants and...

LAist may or may not know a pantless man taking part in No Pants Day 2009 (Photo by Ryan Jesena/Used with permission) Angelenos with some free time on a Sunday afternoon and the proclivity to sport skivvies in full view from the waist down will be riding the Red Line and roaming the streets tomorrow as part of No Pants Day. This is the second year that L.A. has officially participated in the world-wide...

Photo by Matt McGrath Photography via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr On Christmas Eve hikers making their way through the Angeles National Forest near mile marker 19.36 of the Angeles Forest Highway found a human skull, and alerted authorities, who then launched an investigation of the area. Searching through terrain recently ravaged by the Station Fire, deputies from the Crescenta Valley Sheriff's Station found a second skull just two days later. The...

The LAPD continues its emphasis on getting intoxicated drivers off the street, and to aid in that aim is operating a DUI checkpoint tonight from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. at Cahuenga Boulevard West and Broadlawn Drive in North Hollywood. According to the LAPD North Hollywood-area residents logged 181 driving under the influence-related and 1,203 hit and run traffic collisions. While making arrests is one goal of this and other checkpoints, public education is...

It was the summer of 2007 when the v-word caused the doors of Doughboys' 3rd Street location to be locked up--that's v for vermin--eek! By the following summer things were still messy, this time thanks to a bureaucratic saga that shut down both locations of the eatery. Last summer brought news that Doughboys was renovating and prepping to relaunch at their 3rd street location. While they're several months later than their original plan, they...

Photo by jslander via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Those of use with less refined palates (snort!) tend to pair an In-N-Out burger with, like, a Strawberry Milkshake or an ice-cold Root Beer. But if you want that Double Double with a nice glass of vino and just aren't sure which one to choose, LearnAboutWine has the solution. They are hosting a series of Blind Date Tastings (unofficially dubbed The In-N-Out Wine...

Last fall Pasadena's Cafe Bizou was a proud dineLA participant (Photo by Elise Thompson/LAist) The discounted dining special aimed at getting Angelenos out and about and sampling some of our many phenomenal restaurants returns again at the end of the month. dineLA restaurant week will run its winter installment once again, this year from January 24-29 and January 31-February 5th. The list of participating restaurants has not yet been revealed, however diners will be...

AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar Director Roman Polanski remains under house arrest in a Swiss town, having already pledged to fight his extradition to the United States to face sentencing in a 32-year-old case. Today, however, lawyers are scheduled to meet here in Los Angeles to continue discussing what "future legal moves that could resolve the marathon prosecution," according to the Daily News. This type of meeting is called a "status conference" and will be heard...

Photo by nicadlr via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Airport security is a hot-button topic today, and with LAX serving as a major international hub how we keep travelers safe is getting much attention. While local officials like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are lauding the facility for its level of security, as recently as last month several "LAX security workers were fired [...] after they were allegedly discovered to have been using drugs,"...

Photo by Eric Richardson (via blogdowntown) Yesterday a patron at the Chetwood Hotel (411 E. 4th Street) in the Toy District neighborhood of Downtown discovered the business' elderly manager bleeding in her second-floor office on the property, however the woman, 74-year old Hideko Oyama, died shortly after in the hospital. Now authorities are working to determine a motive in the case while pursuing other leads. In a press release issued by the police this...