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Photo by Michael Camacho via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr An Amber Alert was issued this afternoon after two women posing as social service workers allegedly abducted a 4-year-old girl from her Thousand Palms home. Last night in South LA an unidentified gunman was wounded when LAPD officers returned fire. The shooter did not strike anyone when he initiated fire. They're still working on fixing the giant sinkhole on a busy portion...

LA prides itself on being a standout among other American cities for its weather, celebrities, and attractions. One distinction, however, points to the darker side of life in our troubled metropolis--the fact that over "two million people living in Los Angeles County - about 20 percent of the area's population - receive welfare or other public aid," according to the Daily News. In fact, our county tops the list nationwide, per Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky,...

Photo by René Ehrhardt via Flickr When times get tough, dining out is often the first sacrifice from people's budgets. Recently there have been a rash of promotions, however, that are zeroing in on ways to combine restaurant eating with cash consciousness, and the need to support local businesses. While DineLA 2009 was so successful that many restaurants opted to continue offering the prix fixe meals through the end of this month, another foodie-oriented...

Authorities are investigating what led up to a California Highway Patrol officer fatally shooting her husband last night at their home in Compton. The unnamed CHP officer has not been arrested or charged as of yet, according to abc7.com, and "Sheriff's officials say it will be up to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office to charge the officer in her husband's death." The officer was reportedly off-duty when the incident occurred, and authorities...

Photo by Michael D'Amico Torontoist interviewed Anser, the newly-unveiled artist behind dozens of spray-painted faces that dotted the city over the previous two years. Gothamist watched as some NYU students occupied the student center with varied demands (amnesty! transparency! scholarships to Palestinians). It ended with arrests...and there was a topless component (NSFW). Bostonist photographed the impressive interior of the new House of Blues, but had to wait in line for music, leaving us skeptical...

Once upon a time, when UCLA's roots were barely sinking into the grounds of a blossoming area called Westwood, there was an outdoor skating rink open year-round for pros and amateurs alike.

And so it goes in local radio...another station is shutting down and re-emerging as something the consumers apparently want more. In the wake of Indie 103.1's demise comes word that 97.1 FM, where folks like Adam Carolla, Tom Leykis, Danny Bonaduce, and Sam Phillips take the mic, will be no more as of this Friday, according to Defamer. News spread when Phillips made mention of the shutdown in a Facebook status update. Word has...

Internet + women can sometimes equal trouble for some guys. Photo by i_want_some15 via Flickr A 37-year-old Torrance man has been arrested in Phoenix and charged with "contract[ing] out a hit to have a 32-year-old woman killed, as well as a 62-year-old male victim seriously injured," according to XBIZ. The accused is David Elms, who has been called a "as a sex-industry mogul," in the Daily Breeze, and the alleged female target a Long...

Unpaid mortgage, no agents, no tv show, and 14 kids. Sweet! (AP Photo/KTLA) First Angela Suleman said her daughter Nadya was "obsessed" with having kids and that she wouldn't be around to help her when her octuplets came home, then they seemed to have kissed and made up. But now TMZ is reporting that Mrs. Suleman hasn't been paying the mortgage during the months of her only daughter's most recent pregnancy. In fact, the...

Motorists attempting to travel on the 5 Freeway through Downtown this morning were stopped short for over an hour following the death of 25-year-old Jaime Herrera, who was struck and killed by a silver Toyota Camry at approximately 4:30 a.m. Herrera was "running east across the northbound lanes near the Los Angeles River," when he was hit, according to L.A. Now. So what was he doing on foot on the freeway? The LA County...

Young R&B star Chris Brown says the media has the story all wrong, but it still seems as if a part of the tale is that he roughed up fellow singer and (ex?) girlfriend Rihanna and then turned himself in just before the pair were due to be at Staples Center for the Grammys. Now, Anthony Geisler, President of LA Boxing, which is "the world's largest boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts training organization"...

Photo by dtaylor123 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr We have Measure R money...but we're having trouble using it. Case in point: funding for light-rail for Los Angeles. Cops in Van Nuys are looking for a suspect in local burglaries. The man was caught on tape entering an an apartment complex twice in recent weeks, where he burglarized two units. The attacking suspect in an early Sunday morning barfight that spilled out...