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Turning curb lanes on Wilshire Boulevard between Downtown and Santa Monica into dedicated Rapid Bus lanes has been a project in the works for over a decade, and one that continues to crawl towards realization. Last fall a series of community meetings were held to discuss the conversion following the initiation of an Initial Study/Environmental Assessment (IS/EA) of the plan, which was to "determine whether any further environmental assessment is necessary," according to Metro....

Photo by Renee Rendler-Kaplan via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Word broke today that Seattle's main newspaper, the Post-Intelligencer, will cease to print on paper after tomorrow, opting to go online only. Will this be the fate of our LA Times? Obama is headed to the Southland...so maybe you want to get your hands on the tasty German food, Obama-Fingers... Kids these days! Some middle schoolers in Los Alamitos were busted for...

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies responded to a call made in Rosemead last night from a father reporting his 22-year-old son was reportedly "on drugs and wielding a machete," explains cbs2.com. Ernesto Castaneda allegedly threatened the deputies who arrived on scene with his machete and a baseball bat, prompting the deputies to shoot him in the torso "after he refused to drop the weapons then charged at them." This was not the suspect's first...

Friday night, the Beverly Hills Police issued a warrant carrying a $50,000 bail for actress Lindsay Lohan in connection with her duo of DUI arrests from 2007. However, the 22-year-old party girl "won't be in court today to respond," but her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley will appear on her behalf, reports the Daily News. "Holley said she believes the warrant was issued as the result of a misunderstanding and that it should be cleared...

When Mailbu residents Cindy and Dave Emminger looked for an answer to a recent problem on their property, they found it was blowing in the wind. The problem was their neighbor, music legend Bob Dylan, had "permanently parked a nasty smelling portable potty next to their mutual property line," according to NBC Los Angeles. The Emmingers wrote a letter to the editor of the Malbu Surfside News, complaining "that the City of Malibu has...

West LA's Ocean View Farms, a non-profit community garden. Photo by Dave Bullock (eecue) via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) During World War II they were called "Victory Gardens"--home-tended sections of land yielding money-saving produce for folks without much money to spare. While "Victory Gardens" might call to mind PBS programming an older relative might enjoy, the impulse to plant and grown has taken root once again nationwide. Now we call them "Recession...

Torontoist announced the winners of their birthday cupcake contest, made to honor their city's 175th birthday and chosen based on whoever best encapsulated the city in cupcake form. LAist has been keeping a close watch on local legend Nadya Suleman, aka OctoMom, and has this hilarious video of her giving birth. Bostonist got political with (or, rather, against) Ann Coulter and Fred Phelps. Gothamist was amazed that someone was in jail for 28 hours...

Photo by kimbrough-photo via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Budget cuts to City programs means they can no longer subsidize the cost of you having your pet spayed or neutered. A small plane crash late this morning in a field in Pomona left two people dead and caused a small brush fire. The LA Times is going through some choppy times, but they still managed to nab three Scripps Howard National Journalism awards...

Thanks to 22,000 gallons of sewage spilling "out of a manhole cover in South Pasadena on Saturday," all of the city beaches in Long Beach are closed today until further notice, according to abc7.com. The waste may have seeped into the storm drainage system that leads to the Los Angeles River as a result of "a grease plug in the line." The line empties into the ocean at Long Beach. Officials initiated the shutdown...

The 25-year-old woman who was behind the wheel of a U-Haul truck during a televised 90-mile police chase on January 28th has been sentenced to six months in jail, abc7.com is reporting. Further, "Alisha Nichole Mankin's driver's license was suspended for one year, and she was placed on probation for 36 months." Mankin "pleaded guilty to evading police, a felony, and hit-and-run driving, a misdemeanor." Her sentencing took place in Ventura County, which is...

Photo by Living in Monrovia via Flickr They tend to be our least favorite people, since we write hefty checks to them every month for our rent, but landlords aren't doing so well these days. Vacancies in commercial buildings are up and rising, say recent reports, and this year looks to be a tough one for landlords looking to lease. "Los Angeles County's office, retail and hotel markets are getting the worst of it,...

Rose Palmisano/OC Register Oh, to be young and inclined to run around a campus at night in your underwear... The longing was put into action on the UC Irvine campus last week, as about 150 co-eds stripped down and sprinted out under the relative cover of night. "It's not illegal to run around in your underwear, as long as all the appropriate parts are covered," remarks the OC Register in their story on the...