Lisa Brenner

Photo by motleypixel via Flickr In an effort to reduce ocean pollution, SeaWorld in San Diego will stop giving out plastic bags at its theme-park gift stores on June 18. Park reps said "the move could save more than 1 million plastic bags from being used. They will offer customers paper and reusable sacks," reports the San Diego Union Tribune. The ban coincides with the opening of SeaWorld's Turtle Reef, a new attraction with...

37-year-old Aaron Leonel Raigoza, a former Los Angeles teacher, was sentenced in Alhambra Superior Court on Thursday to life in prison for the 2008 murder of his estranged wife Ana Acosta. Judge Jared Moses sentenced Raigoza to a term of 19 years, plus a consecutive 50 years to life, reports LA NOW. Last August, Raigoza "pleaded guilty to the charge that he 'personally and intentionally discharged' a firearm," that killed his 32-year-old wife, notes...

Photo by drukelly via Flickr A suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting spree on California Highway 163 that wounded a 21-year-old University of San Diego student on her way to class earlier this month, reports LA NOW. According to the county district attorney Bonnie Dumanis, the CHP was able to identify the suspect from DNA found on the shell casings recovered from the freeway. Said Dumanis in an interview on KUSI-TV,...

Photo by Lucyrk in LA via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr An early morning crash involving an onion truck has caused a commuting issue on the 710 Freeway in Vernon. The California Highway Patrol reports that a semi-truck hauling a load of onions overturned from the onramp into a ditch before 3 a.m. on Thursday. Drivers may want to avoid the Bandini Boulevard entrance ramp to the southbound 710, according to NBC LA....

Photo by jimbowen0306 via Flickr The Department of Fish and Game is investigating a shooting in San Bernardino County that left one bear cub dead and another possibly wounded. Two men are accused of shooting the two cubs outside a home in Forest Falls early Thursday, reports KTLA. The baby bears were searching for food in the bed of a pickup truck parked outside the house when the men began shooting, according to Sheriff's...

Photo by kozumel via Flickr Following an investigation, officials upholding a "zero tolerance" policy for police misconduct have confirmed that three Glendale officers who "took a patrol car on a joyride to Las Vegas," are no longer working for the department, reports the Glendale News-Press. City spokesman Tom Lorenz confirmed that Officers Patrick Hamblin, Fernando Salmeron and Mike Ullerich were no longer employees with the city, but declined to say for what cause. City...

(Courtesy of Orange County District Attorney's office) Two Orange County teachers, 62-year-old Huntington Beach resident Daniel Shepard and his 59-year-old wife Gay Davidson-Shepard, were arrested at their home on Wednesday accused of having sex with a 17-year-old student, reports ABC Local. Investigators report the couple "had the boy over to their home weekly, gave him alcohol and had sex with him," say starting in March 2009. According to the District Attorney's office, notes ABC...

33-year-old rock climber David Pinegar of Loomis was killed at Joshua Tree National Park on Monday when his rope snapped and he fell 150 feet, according to authorities, reports CBS Local. Pinegar was climbing with a friend near Saddle Rock off of Ryan Mountain when the accident happened, said a park spokesman

Photo by °Florian via Flickr UC Irvine, recognized recently by the Urban Land Institute and Princeton Review's "Green Colleges" for its sustainability and energy efficiency efforts, has won a tree-planting grant from the ADF and Toyota and will celebrate Earth Day on Friday April 22 with an on-campus, volunteer tree planting in Aldrich Park, reports the UC Newsroom. Last fall, UCI earned a grant and a "Tree Campus USA" designation from the national Arbor...

Deadline has been counting other people's money and put together an exclusive list of media moguls and their startling compensation packages compared to averages of other top executives. Often considered a "red flag" to shareholders when a public company pays one of its top bananas three or more times the average of other big cheeses...

Photo by Joey Maloney via Flickr, Used with permission One word: government. Farrell believes, essentially, that the government and the music industry should totally start a band. The parks and recreation department for sure has a van we can use places to rock out, and your mom and the neighborhood won't mind the ruckus because they'll be so stoked by all the local merch being sold. Notes Billboard: "In partnering with the city of...

Space Shuttle Endeavour on Pad39A at Kennedy Space Center (Photo by jurvetson via Flickr) With about a dozen facilities vying for the honor, NASA announced today that the California Science Center in Exposition Park has been chosen as the final landing place for space shuttle Endeavour which will be retired after its final mission later this month. The announcement Tuesday coincides with the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch. The shuttle will...