Lisa Brenner

A six-person artist collective in Highland Park called THIS Los Angeles is asking for the public's help in tracking down a piece of art that was reportedly stolen last night from the opening of a new exhibit called These Friends. According to the THIS Los Angeles website, as the opening night crowds were leaving and cleanup was underway an unidentified person grabbed a piece of art from the wall -- a personal piece not for sale -- and ran out the front door of the gallery space.

Five people have been identified in connection with the 13 paintball attacks on pedestrians and property in Burbank over the past week, reports the Burbank Leader. Julian Stephens, Kevin Yuenyongsukal, and Eric Monson, all 18-years-old, plus two boys whom police declined to name because of their age, were arrested Wednesday.

Photo by swanksalot via Flickr Rhode Island State Police said on Friday that a Hacienda Heights man arrested arrested during a Rhode Island drug bust on Jan. 30 may have acted as a West Coast connection for the largest operation in the state's history, reports the Pasadena Star-News. "Rodrigo Saucedo, 31, of Hacienda Heights; Andrew Rios, 39, of Downey; and Adilson Reyes, 29, of Utah, face charges of possessing more than 1 kilogram of...

Photo by i_hate_my_screen_name via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Winona Lindsay Lohan may be charged with a felony in connection with a high-end jewelry theft last month and could face up to three years in state prison, reports KTLA. TMZ asserted on Saturday morning that the L.A. County District Attorney will file a case against Lohan as early as Monday, after she reportedly walked off with a $2,500 necklace from a Venice store...

Rudy Martinez Rudy Martinez, the Eagle Rock businessman challenging Jose Huizar for his seat on the Los Angeles City Council, reportedly quit his post as an LAPD volunteer in 2005, according to a police report, and refused to cooperate with an investigation into why he possessed the badge of a slain officer who died in the line of duty, reports the LA Times. Eric Hacopian, a campaign consultant for Martinez acknowledged that the candidate...

According to ABC Local the next big thing in airport security could be.... wait for it... Mice. That's right. The critter nibbling leftovers from your favorite LAX Sbarro could soon be trained to foil evil terrorist plots. Israeli scientists have reportedly created a detector that looks like a body scanner, but instead contains concealed boxes of specially trained mice. When the Great Mouse Detectives sense traces of drugs or explosives, they run to a...

via UCLA Newsroom UCLA researcher Leon Knopoff who "pioneered the use of mathematical modeling for earthquakes, helped develop a way to date ancient pottery and examined how music affects human perception," died on Jan 20 of of respiratory failure at his home in Sherman Oaks, reports the Daily News. He was 85. With colleague Robert Burridge, Knopoff developed a model that helps in earthquake forecasting and discovered that small shakers usually do not predict...

In an ongoing food-based drama of store vs wallet, Ralphs Grocery Co. has pleaded no contest to overcharging for prepackaged and weighed products at Los Angeles stores. The grocery store chain entered pleas Monday, shortly before the case was scheduled to go to trial, said the city attorney's office said, According to CBS Local, no contest pleas were entered for 62 misdemeanor charges, "including false advertising, mislabeling and selling items that weigh less than they should."

During an online dating attempt in '08, Manhattan-based artist and programmer R. Luke DuBois discovered that even the smallest tweaks in his profile would net drastically different crops of hopeful matches. This curiosity led DuBois to sign up for 21 different dating sites so he could analyze commonly used words in an effort to create a series of maps called "A More Perfect Union" that would display trends by geography. The Bronx, for example,...

The driver of the big rig hauling two sand-filled trailers that crashed into the center divider of the 101 freeway in Studio City this morning hitting oncoming vehicles and landing on top of an SUV has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, reports the California Highway Patrol. The early morning accident backed up traffic in both direction for miles causing an extended SigAlert during rush hour until 10:00 a.m. According to officials, the...

This will not do the story justice. You'll have to watch the video. OC woman Coley Pittman on a recent trip to Dingle, Ireland was reunited with her dolphin BFF. Dingle, a town of 1,900 humans and 500,000 sheep, is also home to a "solitary dolphin" named Fungi that reportedly lives on its own without seeking other dolphin companionship. Pittman visited Fungi several times over the past 12 years to swim with the wild,...

Photo by jek in the box via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Citigroup "seized the beleaguered EMI Group" from Guy Hands' hands on Tuesday putting to rest one of the industry's "most tarnished misadventures," reports The Wrap, signaling the possible auction of the No. 4 record colossus. Hands' Terra Firma private equity firm turned over ownership of EMI -- home of The Beatles, Coldplay, Katy Perry, thousands of others -- to the U.S....