Lisa Brenner

Photo by Mark Luethi via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Four petitions by businesses owners on the Sunset Strip will be considered by the Planning Commission this week when they meet to evaluate proposals seeking to add or alter rooftop billboards. "If approved, the city will receive huge monthly fees thanks to development agreements with each of the business owners," reports West Hollywood Patch. The Grafton Hotel at 8462 Sunset seeks to construct...

Photo by zappowbang via Flickr Too fragile to receive CPR, 91-year-old Maria "Concha" Lopez, who suffered from dementia and "shied away from doctors," was given mouth-to-mouth by her 26-year-old caregiver niece, Stephanie Hernandez. Despite resuscitation efforts by Hernandez, Lopez died in their home in Madera County weighing only 35 pounds and covered in bedsores. According to the LA Times some of the wounds were "so deep they bared bone. A metal rod from hip...

via Eastsider LA The Silver Lake Trader Joe’s is collecting contributions for the children of Michael “Micky” David, their former employee who was killed after being chased down Sunset Blvd and shot on May 7 in Echo Park, reports The Eastsider LA. The Silver Lake store, where the 30-year-old David worked for 2-1/2 years, set up a trust fund to collect donations from fellow employees as well as customers. Anyone who is interested in...

Photo credit: Santa Monica Police Department Police have released a sketch of a suspect wanted in connection with a May 6 assault outside of O’Brien’s Irish Pub & Restaurant in Santa Monica that left a man in critical condition. The 46-year-old victim was reportedly "drunk and collided with the suspect, who became so upset that he began to push the victim and knocked him to the ground," around 1:00 a.m., say police. The man...

Photo by jorizaga via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Despite opposition, Ramirez Canyon Park, the 22.5-acre Malibu ranch donated by (mega) Barbara Streisand in 1993 to the state of California, is on the list of properties that Gov. Jerry Brown wants to shop around. Streisand reportedly says she understands if the gifted land needs to be sold to help balance the budget and hopes the buyer will preserve its "special habitat," reports the...

Photo by R.E.~ via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Metrolink's riskiest crossing is getting a $6 million upgrade after the Glendale locale on Doran Street ranked number one out of 312 locations for risk and in the top eight for accidents, reports NBC Local. The adjacent propane company, a "heavy flow of tanker trucks," and vehicles that stop illegally on the tracks give that Metrolink crossing, with about 90 high speed trains travelling...

Kanye West headlines Day 3 of the 2011 Coachella Music Festival (Photo by Joey Maloney / LAist) Double the pleasure. Double the sunscreen. Double the ticket sales. Like deja vu all over again, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be spreading out the heat stroke over two weekends in 2012, organizers announced Tuesday, in an effort to give the fans double the chance of getting in after tickets to the festival sold...

Photo by California CPA via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Over this year's Memorial Day Weekend holiday, three traffic-related deaths were recorded on LA County highways in the first 36 hours, notes California Highway Patrol reports the Daily News. From 6:01 p.m. on Friday to Sunday at 6 a.m., six traffic-related fatalities were recorded statewide, one less than the previous year. Also this weekend In Los Angeles County, CHP arrested 230 motorists on...

Post-hacker attack, Sony announced Monday that it will fully restore all services of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity music by the end of this week, reports Mashable. There is some skepticism given the previously revised recovery deadlines, like the April 21 post on a PlayStation blog cautioning "that it might be 'a full day or two' before PSN was restored," notes Mashable. Sony Executive Deputy President told reporters on May 1 that service restoration...

Photo by antith3tic via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A storm system in the South Pacific Ocean will bring high surf and dangerous rip currents to SoCal beaches through Thursday. Local beaches, especially those facing south should see the strongest weather with waves up to 10 feet, notes the National Weather Service. Coastal flooding, potentially dangerous high surf and beach erosion is possible in Malibu and Pacific Palisades due to the storm swell...

Zach Behrens/LAist In an effort to keep LA streets safe during the Memorial Day weekend holiday, the LAPD will conduct the following DUI enforcement activities: Thursday, May 26 - DUI Saturation Patrol in the Olympic Area from 5:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m Friday, May 27 - Sobriety Checkpoint on Topanga Canyon Boulevard between Devonshire Street and Chatsworth Street from 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. Saturday, May 28 - Sobriety Checkpoint on Laurel Canyon Boulevard...

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