Lisa Brenner

A recently enacted law banning food trucks from parking in the Old Town shopping district has prompted an organization representing 100+ vendors to sue the City of Monrovia, notes KPCC. According to Monrovia officials, the law, adopted in January, was intended to protect local restaurants and...

Photo by okarol via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr According to a new estimate made public on Tuesday, as many as 140 endangered tortoises could be displaced in northeastern San Bernardino County to make way for a BrightSource Energy's $2 billion solar energy development. Initially, developers estimated the relocation of only 17 animals, reports the Press-Enterprise. "At least 43 tortoises have been moved from the project site to protect them from grading and...

Photo by nicadlr via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr According to the Weather Service, a record high temperature for March 31 was set today in downtown Los Angeles with the thermometer spiking a red-hot 92 degrees. The former title holder, a year called 1966, maxed out 90 degrees. Elsewhere in the region, a high temp record was broken at Santa Maria Airport when the meter read 88. The old record of 86 degrees...

Photo by Open Air Control Testing Ground via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr 38-year-old Glendale resident Edik Magardomyan was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment on Thursday at the Costco in Burbank after allegedly leaving his 14-month-old daughter inside a "sweltering 115-degree car" as he went inside to fill a prescription for eyeglasses, reports The Burbank-Leader. The baby, locked inside the car for at least 15 minutes on a record-breaking hot day, was...

Photo by okarol via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Wheels by the hundreds are expected this weekend at the 4th Magical Magnolia Bicycle Tour, a self-guided "retail adventure" through Burbank's Magnolia Park neighborhood presented by Magnolia Park Partnership in collaboration with Burbank Bike, "a City of Burbank sponsored program aimed at promoting bicycling as an environmentally sustainable transportation alternative, and the Public Works Burbank Recycle Center, leading the way to Zero Waste," notes...

The alleged rendezvous (via imgur) A University of Southern California student has been suspended from the infamously misogynistic email-sending fraternity Kappa Sigma, after sexual photos taken at the roof line of a campus building over the weekend were posted online. The allegedly well-documented NSFW sexytime incident took place atop the 12-story Waite Phillips Hall, reports KTLA. Zach Timm, president of USC’s Kappa Sigma, released a statement Sunday confirming the male in the photos was...

Where the practice of taunting bank robbers with silly, non-threatening names came from, I do not know. What I do know is that the "All Ears Bandit" is wanted by police and the FBI in connection with three local bank robberies at Bank of America branches this month where victims were threatened with a firearm. Law enforcement labeled the unidentified suspect the “All Ears Bandit,” based on descriptions of his large ears given by...

At the National Association of Theatre Owners' CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, Christopher Dodd, the former Democratic senator from Connecticut, is addressing attendees today in his first public comments since taking over as chairman and CEO of the MPAA nine days ago, reports Deadline. He reportedly covered requisite topics like exhibition, intellectual property theft and international growth with an eye on China. He further suggested his political experience will be an asset in the...

A window washer was electrocuted early Tuesday morning while working at a Huntington Beach Hospital, according to authorities, reports KTLA. Firefighters say the victim was using a long extension rod on a brush that made contact with nearby power lines. The accident happened around 6:30 a.m. at Beach Boulevard and Newman Street on the north side of the building. The man was electrocuted and died at the scene. His name has not been released,...

(via City of Cudahy) Voting 4 to 0 in a short, closed session meeting Monday night, Cudahy City Council fired George Perez, the controversial City Manager for over a decade. City Atty. David Olivas was also dismissed. A councilman noted that members feared standing up to Perez, and the LA Times reports that the move was "a rare show of independence" by city council. Cudahy Mayor Josue Barrios said Perez was fired "for cause,"...

Photo by moonrat42 via Flickr On Tuesday, the City Council’s Planning & Land Use Management Committee (PLUM) will hold a public hearing downtown to address the Community Care Facility Ordinance, a proposed measure aimed at establishing rules for sober-living homes, boarding houses and other "nuisance group homes that have proliferated in residential neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley," notes the Daily News. This "common-sense legislation" is not seeking to change current zoning laws, rather...

via LAUSD Earning less than his predecessor, incoming Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy has volunteered to take a 17-percent reduction in salary, a loss of nearly $55,000 per year, amid the school district's budget related job cuts. On Saturday, Deasy told school board members "to withold part of his annual salary as they continue to work out a budget deficit for the new year," reports KTLA. "...given our current circumstances, at this time...