Lisa Brenner

Teen Crashes Into Taco Stand and 3 Pedestrians During Driving Lesson / Read the post here A Tarzana doctor shot and killed his wife and then turned gun on himself in the driveway of their Sherman Oaks home on Wednesday. “It is being investigated as a murder-suicide,” said Officer Bruce Borihanh, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, according to the L.A. Times. Police called to the home of Alex Michaelson, 39, and...

Tihomir Petrov (Photo via Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics Institute at UCLA) A $35,000 bench warrant has been issued for Cal State Northridge math professor Tihomir Petrov charged with two misdemeanor counts of urinating in a public place after her was videotaped relieving himself on a colleague's office door. Petrov "failed to appear for a pretrial conference hearing in the case, prompting the warrant, the Los Angeles city attorney's office said Wednesday," according...

Mack Ray Edwards -1970 (LAPD booking photo) Investigators now believe Ramona Price, a 7-year-old girl who went missing 50 years ago in Santa Barbara, may have been a victim of serial killer Mack Ray Edwards, who is thought to have killed as many as 20 children. On Wednesday morning, specially trained cadaver dogs searching for the little girl's remains of found "an area of interest," in a stretch of construction near Winchester Canyon Road...

Photo Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Wednesday that a 37-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested last week at the Otay Mesa border crossing when officials found "159 pounds of concealed iguana meat hidden in coolers underneath fish," according to a news release. The male suspect, whose name was not released, declared bringing the fish from Mexico, and was selected by CBP officers for further inspection. Authorities examining three...

(Photo by nicadlr via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Mötley Crüe will heed the call of the motherland as they rock the 2011 Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF), taking place August 18 through August 20, announced organizers. Mötley Crüe, this year's Elmer Valentine Award honoree, will share the spandex'd spotlight of the 3-day fest with Public Enemy, Bush, Matt & Kim and more than 50 other bands (check the lineup for new...

Early Tuesday morning a man walked into Topanga Area Community Police Station and told front desk officers that he'd killed his girlfriend. The suspect, identified as 58-year-old David Pearson, pointed police to the location of his apartment in the 9200 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard where they found 62-year-old Kristen Hyde dead inside the residence, according to a LAPD news release. Detectives believe the woman was strangled, and "determined Pearson was involved in the...

Credit: Los Angeles Police Department A duo of con-artists have been duping Spanish-speaking victims in the Harbor City, Wilmington, and San Pedro communities with a Lotto scam since January, according to a Los Angeles Police Department release. Six victims have fallen prey, and detectives are cautioning the public to "beware of strangers approaching them and claiming to have a winning lottery ticket." Beginning on January 12, 2011, at about 1:30 p.m., through June 8,...

Photo by Locomojo30 via Twitpic After seven months at sea, the USS Carl Vinson returned to its Coronado home port on Wednesday morning, reports NBC LA. Since its Persian Gulf deployment on November 30, 2010 the ship has faced pirates, a jet engine fire, and, most famously, the carrier briefly held the body of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden before his historic Arabian Sea burial. During its deployment, the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered carrier also trained...

via Google Maps On Sept. 2, 1961, 7-year-old Ramona Price went missing as she walked to school in Santa Barbara. The case has never been solved. Investigators came across information four years ago that led to "the 101 Freeway's Winchester Canyon Road overcrossing, a structure that was being built at around the time Ramona vanished," according to the L.A. Times. "The tearing down of the Winchester overcrossing for new construction allows a rare opportunity...

Photo by Joey Maloney, Used with permission Showbiz 411 reported last evening that The Big Man, The Biggest Man You've Ever Seen & One Of The 3 Most Important People In The World, Clarence Clemons, was "seriously ill" after suffering a stroke at his home in Florida on Sunday. The legendary, saxophone great of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band has had health complications in the past but this situation, was as described as "dire,"...

Photo by Loren Javier via Flickr A 51-year-old Pleasant Hill resident is currently sitting in the Unhappiest Place on Earth after being arrested by Walnut Creek Police for selling fake Disneyland tickets to at least seven different families in Northern California, according to SF Gate. According to the Walnut Creek Police Department, Lisa Marie Cassinelli, was recently investigated after several cases surfaced about fraudulent Disneyland Park passes being sold on Craigslist. The suspect arranged...

Photo by G. J. Winterboer via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Travel + Leisure magazine's annual survey of America's Favorite Cities rates Los Angeles number three... for dirtiest the nation (top honors went to Philadelphia and New Orleans). Top 10 dirtiest cities are chosen by Travel + Leisure readers who evaluate the dirtybirds on the likes of litter, air pollution and even the taste of the local tap water. No. 3 Los...