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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,"...

A birthday visit to Disneyland last year (Photo by sadjeans via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) If you thought you could save some bucks and whoop it up at Disneyland on your next birthday thanks to the theme park's freebie, you're too late. As the OC Register's OC Deals Blog reminds us, "the last day you could go to Disneyland for free on your birthday was Dec. 31." Free park admission on...

Photo by STERLINGDAVISPHOTO via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Sen. Gloria Romero lead the California State Senate in honoring the memory of El Monte civic leader Bobby Salcedo today; this evening a vigil will be held for him at his alma mater, Mountain View High. The California Medical Board has accused OctoMom Nadya Suleman's fertility doctor of negligence. Tuition might be skyrocketing, but both UCLA and UC Irvine made a national list...

Casey Johnson, a 30-year-old heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, was found dead today in her home in Los Angeles, according to KTLA. The socialite was known for making headlines for outrageous and often illegal activities, and just last month had announced her engagement to reality TV star Tila Tequila. Tequila remarked today on her Twitter account: "This is a very heartbreaking time for me. I just want some pricacy as I deal with the loss of my Fiance Casey Johnson. I'm heart is shredded." As recently as this evening as Tequila reported Johnson was in a coma, however media outlets and Tequila herself soon confirmed Johnson has died.

Photo by pink_fish13 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr This Christmas, when a Nigerian man traveling into the US armed himself with explosives on his Detroit-bound Northwest flight, the hair-trigger reaction by airlines and airports and the TSA was to up security measures and to adjust policy for travelers entering the States from abroad. Now the "head of the Los Angeles airport police union this morning urged the federal government to require...

Photo by Heather Hayes via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Authorities in the Westlake District discovered a man in his 50s stabbed to death in his own apartment. A vigil has been scheduled for tomorrow night to honor Bobby Salcedo, the El Monte school official slain last week while on holiday in Mexico. Something stinks in Lawndale. Our hot temps meant fast-wilting for the many flowers used to adorn the Rose Parade...

First Lady Michelle Obama with host Alton Brown and the Iron Chef America teams (Food Network) Tonight the Food Network's Iron Chef America's season premiere is a 2-hour episode with some very special guests, and it's a show we've been looking forward to for some time now. Facing off in Kitchen Stadium will be White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford and Bobby Flay versus Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse, as the two teams try...

Parking at LAX (Photo by polaroid-girl via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Airport officials at LAX have announced a significant change in their parking operations which is effective this month, LA Now is reporting. Parking Lot B, the long-term economy lot located at 111th Street and La Cienega Boulevard is slated to close permanently and public parking services once offered there will be "consolidated with other lots." The LAX website's parking page...

The first homicide of 2010 was logged yesterday when the LAPD responded to a call Friday afternoon at a home in Watts. There they discovered the bodies of Jose and Paula Torres, both 44, a couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide, according to LA Now. It was their daughter who made the call after she discovered them shortly after 1 o'clock in the afternoon on New Year's Day. She reported that it was...

Photo by BokehBunny via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Respected El Monte civic leader Bobby Salcedo was among those gunned down late last week in Mexico. An intoxicated knife-wielding man was arrested yesterday when he attempted to climb a fence at LAX. A water main break caused a sinkhole to open up this morning near Sylmar High School. 56: Number of people attending the Rose Parade yesterday who needed medical attention. Plus...296:...

Julie Wolfson/LAist Good morning, sunshine! Did you have your breakfast today? We're big fans of breakfast here at LAist (remember our Wake Up LA month-long series covering breakfast eats?) and sometimes even bigger fans of pictures of breakfast. That's how this plate wound up here in our Eye Nosh series today. It's from Downtown's Bottega Louie, an eatery that not only wins our hearts for their food--like their delicious panini offered up at the...

The California Highway Patrol has released their figures following New Year's Eve and New Year's morning, and while the number of fatal accidents is lower than last year, there were more arrests made, according to an AP report published on abc7. There were "five fatal vehicle accidents" reported, which is "five fewer than last year," claiming five lives--of which one was a pregnant woman. However, the CHP "made 527 DUI arrests between New Year's...