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If you are someone who douses just about any food item with fiery red Sriracha sauce, you may be interested in this confection: Sriracha lollipops.

Gardeners have already been getting their hands dirty with warm-weather veggies and herbs, since we've been in peak spring planting season in Los Angeles lately. At Baldwin Hills' Post & Beam restaurant, the winter crops have just been taken out from the on-site garden, and replace with new seedlings that will feed diners in the coming weeks and months.

Gordo, a four-month old pit bull mix puppy, needs some help. You see, this little guy used to belong to an owner who "allegedly threw him against a wall and repeatedly kicked him, while under the influence of drugs," the County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control (DACC) tells us.

Authorities are calling him the "Teardrop" suspect, and have linked him to 28 sexual assaults logged since February 1996. Now the Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) Sexual Assault Section is asking for the public’s help to make the ID, and have released sketches of the perp.

It truly is the end of an era: Bill Fosselman, part of the Fosselman's Ice Cream family, died late last week at the age of 92. Fosselman was one-third of the set of brothers who started the ice cream company in 1919, and up until just about five years ago, was still at the Alhambra shop pitching in.

The Wilshire Grand Hotel closed its doors for good at the end of December, but before the walls come tumbling down to make way for a swanky high rise, all of the facility's furnishings are up for grabs.

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) is making relations between the United States and Afghanistan a little more strained. The outspoken representative from Huntington Beach, who also serves as Republican chairman of the House foreign affairs subcommittee on oversight and investigation, has been barred from Afghanistan.

If Earth Day 2012 felt like just a drop in the bucket (or polluted ocean) for you, perhaps you'll want to get on board with VegWeek. It's pretty simple: Eat a vegetarian diet for the whole week of April 23 to 29.

You probably wised up and threw on a jacket or sweater this morning to ward off the damp chill, and thanks to a late season storm headed our way, you're going to want to tote your umbrella for the next few days, too.

The Happiest Place on Earth is getting caffeinated, thanks to the impending arrival of global cafe behemoth Starbucks. The Seattle-based chain revealed Monday they are opening a location in each of Disney's six theme parks in California and Florida.

When you change your name to something as associative as "Metta World Peace" and then you go and elbow a rival on the basketball floor, well, people might have some suggestions for what you should have changed your name to instead.

An armed felon on probation accused of robbing four USC students at gunpoint early Wednesday morning was charged today with seven felonies.