Lisa Brenner

Photo by sfxeric via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr With some drivers reaching speeds of up to 63 mph on city streets, police snagged more than 70 motorists over the weekend in Glendale as part of a citywide speed enforcement crackdown, reports the Glendale News-Press. Police cited 75 drivers for speeding, including one motorist for traveling at 63 mph and several others who were traveling at more than 50 mph on Victory Boulevard,...

Photo by chdwckvnstrsslhm via Flickr Seven baby barn owls stolen from their nest in a old rocket-testing bunker in the Santa Ana River wash have been returned to their mother after being found in a bucket in the back of a car during a routine traffic stop on Monday, reports the SB Sun. San Bernardino sheriff's notified the Department of Fish and Game, and Lenore Wills, an animal rehabilitation specialist from Yucaipa, was called...

Photo by millerm217 via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Legoland is really making a go of it. First Star Wars and now the Hollywood Bowl. And Star Wars in Concert is PLAYING at the Hollywood Bowl! Whoa. I think the Legos are trying to tell us something. And I think that something is that we're only two months away from the official opening night of the Hollywood Bowl season (June 17). Of course...

Photo by Gisela Giardino via Flickr When you shine a laser pointer at an aircraft, especially a police helicopter, the following things happen: A) They find you. B) You get arrested. Laser pointers were designed to make swirly devil nipples on the Baroness during public screenings of The Sound of Music. They were not designed to harass pilots. They latest person to learn this the hard way was 22-year-old Brandon Hicks who was booked...

Photo by Eddy Van 3000 via Flickr A $10,000 reward was offered Tuesday by the the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals responsible for five bronze headstones that were stolen from Downey Cemetery. Police believe the items may have been taken to recycle for cash, reports the Daily Breeze. The headstones and numerous military plaques were taken about 7:30 a.m. March 30 from the...

Photo by Loren Javier via Flickr Since the '90s a Walt Disney theme park and resort project has been in planning stasis pending approval from the Chinese government. Over the weekend, invitations to attend a "special event in Shanghai" were issued, reports the Wall Street Journal, to a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday "that Disney CEO Bob Iger is expected to attend," notes Deadline. Notes the Wall Street Journal: The groundbreaking ceremony follows Disney's recent...

The LA County Board of Supervisors is considering a public hearing on a proposal to "cede 42 acres of L.A. County land to Orange County -- and annexing about 36 acres from the neighboring county," reports LA Now.Initiated by Orange County’s Board of Supervisors, the proposal intends to simplify the border of Long Beach...

Photo by drukelly via Flickr A 21-year-old college student was shot around 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning near the Balboa Avenue exit of CA 163 while driving to the University of San Diego, according to officials, reports the San Diego Union-Tribune. The woman was headed southbound in the fast lane when she reportedly felt a pain in her side. Unaware that she had been shot in the rib cage, the victim continued driving to...

Sergio Salcido Luna, an aspiring, mixed-martial arts fighter in Bakersfield, is believed to be one of the two men shot to death inside a vehicle while waiting to enter the United States at a Tijuana-area border crossing early Monday morning. Luna, 25, and Kevin Joel Romero, 28, were in a line of cars poised to cross into San Diego at ...

Photo by California CPA via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The search continues, and the reward increases, for two men who carried out a vicious attack on San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow, a 41-year-old Santa Cruz paramedic and father of two who was beaten in a coma in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium after last week's home opener, reports The Dodgers on Tuesday. [T]he total reward for information in the case...

Photo by richardmasoner via Flickr Two men identified by Baja California prosecutors as U.S. citizens were shot to death in their car while waiting to enter the United States at a Tijuana-area border crossing before dawn on Monday morning, reports the Associated Press. Witnesses at the San Ysidro US-Mexico crossing reportedly saw a gunman approach a line of waiting vehicles and fire into the victims' pickup truck, shooting the men in the head, arms...

Photo by numberstumper via Flickr Los Angeles' Department of Water and Power announced today plans to gut its budget by about $440 million in part by implementing a three-year hiring freeze, effective immediately, in the face of a huge deficit, reports ABC Local. As many as 500 of DWP's 9,000 employees will not be replaced when they either leave or retire from the nation's largest municipal utility. This substantial reduction in an "aging workforce"...