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Photo by calibre68 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The Chief of the Burbank Police Department has announced he's stepping down, just weeks after the FBI launched an investigation into the force he leads. Detectives in Santa Clarita are working to determine if the badly-decomposed remains found behind a strip mall today are those of a young woman recently reported missing. And another corpse mystery...this one of a man thought to be...

Photo by ItzaFineDay via Flickr Legendary Bay Area restaurateur, chef, cookbook author, and educational garden advocate Alice Waters is in town today to take part in the launch of the first Los Angeles branch of her Chez Panisse Foundation's Edible Schoolyard. The garden at Larchmont Charter School in West Hollywood, has already been teaching the current K-2 students about food and science, as described in the Larchmont Chronicle: Children keep a garden journal and...

Photo by R.E. ˜ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Commuter rail service Metrolink is considering a fare increase to be implemented at the start of the new year, reports the Daily News. "The five-county Metrolink agency board is scheduled to meet Friday to decide whether to hike ticket prices for tens of thousands of daily passengers by as much as 6 percent." The potential fare increase can be most likely attributed...

Photo by pink_fish13 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Carpool lanes added to the Southbound 405 Freeway as part of a $167 million project were opened up this weekend, in the hopes this will relieve some congestion on the road. "Caltrans workers Saturday took out barricades on the southbound 405 freeway's carpool lanes from the Interstate 10 Freeway interchange south to the 90 Freeway," explains CBS2, adding that the last step was...

Photo by hatehills via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A man in his 60s died last night in Long Beach after being struck by a van while riding a bicycle near Magnolia and 6th. A recent LA Times/USC poll shows that most California voters aren't planning on getting the H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccination. Good news for Burbank newshounds; your local paper, the Burbank Leader, has announced they're expanding their coverage. How does...

Got cans? It takes more than 5 to make this, but 5 will get you some savings at CB2. (Julie Wolfson/LAist) The upcoming holidays are about giving, and for many of us that means both giving gifts to our loved ones and to those in need. One way to help out in both areas comes via Chicago-based retailer CB2, who opened up a branch of their home decor store in a segment of the...

One week ago, 16-year-old Wilson High student Melody Ross was with her friends, watching the school's Homecoming football game. Last night the team observed a moment of silence in her honor, as Ross was gunned down minutes after she exited the Long Beach school's stadium. At last night's game students wrote MR on their cheeks, the team turned the school's "W" on their helmets upside down to make an "M" in their classmates honor,...

Three deckers of delish (Photo by djjewelz via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) If we're talking nosh, there's no item perhaps more quintessential than pastrami on rye. The one pictured above hailed from a plate served up at Langer's, a deli that has been a longtime favorite of locals, but has now been praised for offering up the best of its kind in the whole country. The accolade comes from writer David...

Last night during rush hour an MTA bus collided with a private vehicle near 1959 N. Glendale Boulevard and the 2 Freeway. "According to Officer Gregory Baek of the Los Angeles Police Department, the No. 92 bus was driving northbound just before the freeway ramp when the accident occurred," explains LA Now. As a result, 19 people suffered injuries, of which 10 "were taken to the hospital," and of those, one "was reported to...

Inside the Santa Monica DMV this time last year (Photo by omar omar via Flickr) Yesterday was yet another Friday on which the state's DMV offices were closed down, thanks to Executive Order S-13-09--a furlough mandate launched in July that sees the department darkened for the first three Fridays of each month. However, do a little figuring with the calendar, and yesterday kicked off a long string of Fridays when the DMV just won't...

Lindsay William-Ross/LAist This will likely be one of the hottest reservation scrambles of the coming weeks: As hinted earlier by Gayot.com (scroll down), Chef Ludovic Lefebvre will be popping up in December for a limited engagement of LudoBites (LAist Review) at Culver City's Royal/T. Although the Top Chef Masters Season 1 contender and former Bastide and L'Orangerie head chef is thinking ahead to having his own brick-and-mortar, for right now the pop-up concept is...

Photo by hatehills via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A California nurses' union says they won't strike since they got the Swine Flu protections they sought written into their contracts. LA Observed notes that "ten members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association have lost their gigs in the last 18 months." That leaves 11 full timers. Yikes. What stinks in the South OC? It's just the algae bloom. WWJD? A Simi...