Lisa Brenner

Photo by melissssaf via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Seven Lake Forest medical marijuana shops have been ordered to close with a temporary injunction issued by an Orange County judge. The businesses, located in a building on the 24600 block of Raymond Way near the Montessori Children’s School House, allegedly violates a new state law banning pot shops within 600 feet of a school, reports CBS Local. “We are pleased to see state...

Photo by Lord Jim via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A 34-year old "high profile graffiti vandal" was arrested Thursday morning at LAX by sheriff’s deputies as he attempted to board a plane to Ireland. "Suspect Jason Williams, also known as “Revok,” is well known in the graffiti vandalism culture and is a member of the graffiti crew “Mad Society Kings” or MSK," notes a police release. Williams, a white male resident of...

Escape To Hippie Mountain: The long-running Topanga Earth Day Festival wraps up today with stages, speakers, vendors, music, workshops and art. There's even a bio diesel shuttle to help you get there. Topanga Community House Fair Grounds, 1440 North Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, CA. 90290, 10:00 a.m. - Sunset.

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Photo by jurvetson via Flickr The owner of a jewelry store was abducted at gunpoint from his home in an attempted holdup on Saturday, however the suspects changed their plans when spooked by police, and let the man go before reaching the business, reports ABC Local. The suspects broke into the owner's home in the 90800 block of Cabanas Avenue about 11:30 p.m. Friday and kidnapped the man, "driving him toward his store near...

An accident Saturday morning involving a large Vons truck on the 5 Freeway prompted authorities to shut down all southbound lanes and one northbound lane at Imperial Highway, reports CBS Local. The crash reportedly caused the truck to catch on fire scattering debris across all southbound lanes and closing a northbound lane because of guardrail damage, reports CBS Local.

(Courtesy Santa Monica Police Department) A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office says Ron Hirsch, the suspect in an explosion earlier this month at a Santa Monica synagogue, has been ordered held without bond after appearing in a Riverside court late Friday on "a federal charge of unauthorized flight," reports the Associated Press notes CBS Local. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is charging Hirsch with a total of four felony counts that...

Photo by Andres Rueda via Flickr More than 200 "blank access cards" and fraudulent credit documents for celebrities and characters including Tim Burton, Tommy Lee Jones, and "Gaylord Focker" were found inside a Burbank motel on Wednesday when Christopher Herrick, a 43-year-old on parole for embezzlement, and 42-year-old Traci Godlef were taken into custody on suspicion of identity theft and forgery, reports the Glendale News-Press. Said Glendale Police Chief Ron De Pompa, "This is...

Photo by markowj via Flickr Tamales With Class: Don't put off 'til tamale what you can do today. La Guera will be teaching a class at the Hollywood Bowl on tamale making. Learn to master the vegan version of her blue corn jalapeño & cheese tamales "using organic nonGMO corn masa and vegan Daiya 'cheese.' " The recipe can be easily modified for meat eaters too. Class includes lecture, lesson, materials and lunch. The...

A special, three-wheel bicycle belonging to a 14-year-old boy with Down syndrome was stolen from his home in Santa Ana, reports the OC Register. The bike was taken from the father's pickup truck overnight Wednesday as it was parked at their home. Said the father of the Special Olympics assisted swimmer, "I almost started to cry, because he loves that bike...He hasn't asked for it yet and I'm afraid at how he is going...

Photo by sfxeric via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr An off-duty Los Angeles police officer died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Saturday morning following a solo crash on the eastbound Ventura 101 freeway. According to police, the officer was thrown from his pickup truck, still belted into the driver's seat, after striking a guard rail at the Van Nuys Boulevard exit at 3:21 a.m., reports the Daily News. A California Highway...

Photo by m kasahara via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Police on Saturday morning were investigating reports of a body on the Silver Lake Boulevard onramp to the southbound 101 freeway. The location was closed for several hours as investigators work to determine cause of death and the man's identity, reports ABC Local. The Eastsider LA reports the victim the as a male in his 20s according to Rampart Division Lt. Wes Buhrmester....