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Tihomir Petrov, 43, a math professor at Cal State Northridge is charged with two misdemeanor counts of urinating in a public place for allegedly peeing on a colleague's door. According to investigators, the incident, reportedly captured on video, stemmed from a dispute. A camera was set up by by school officials after discovering puddles of what they thought was urine by the professor's door. Petrov's arraignment is set for Thursday in Los Angeles Superior...

Photo by AMagill via Flickr Three banks in Anaheim were held up in 30 minutes on Wednesday by a suspect being called the "fuzzy-face bandit". According to authorities, the bandit got away with cash from only one of the locations. The heisting began about 10:45 a.m. at the at 1135 N. State College Blvd. Wells Fargo branch, according to the FBI, reports the Daily Breeze. The suspect handed a note to the teller demanding...

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KTLA is reporting on another lockdown at El Camino Real High School and Hale Middle School after a report of a gun on campus at 2:40 p.m. A Hispanic male with a shaved head was allegedly seen on campus with a gun, say authorities. No word yet on whether the suspect was an attending student. El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills was one of San Fernando Valley campuses locked down last week...

The $152 million Rose Bowl renovation got underway with a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday. Upgrades and updates include wider tunnels, new restrooms, new concession stands, concourse improvements, press box improvements, new scoreboards and video boards, and a museum reports CBS Local.

via Neon Tommy President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union "Sputnik" address on Tuesday night illustrating convoluted inefficiencies in department structure with stories about salmon, urging people to become teachers, stressing innovation, emphasizing education that begins at home, detailing the realities of global competition and outlining a plan that includes a whole lot of working together to recapture the American dream. Here's a clock-y representation of how the speech was divided up...

Photo by jontunn via Flickr An extremely loud crash reportedly woke up much of a residential neighborhood on Monday night after a slow-speed pursuit in Pasadena escalated into a "violent T-bone crash in Covina," reports ABC Local. A male suspect was arrested, and the woman hit was taken to a local hospital with internal injuries and multiple broken bones. Police report the pursuit began just before 11 p.m. with a traffic violation in Old...

The US Corp of Engineers does not have encouraging things to say about the Santa Fe Dam. The structure received a class two rating, the second worst grade possible, deeming the structure potentially unsafe with a high probability of failure, reports KFI. Designed to protect the San Gabriel River from flooding parts of Whittier, Baldwin Park, El Monte, Basset, La Puente, the dam is designed of earth and stone and "catastrophic failure" could occur...

Photo by eleanor ryan via Flickr A Southern California couple has been arrested after police were tipped off about video allegedly showing their 23-month-old toddler son smoking marijuana, says the Huffington Post. The Victorville Daily Press reports the video depicts the child bringing a pipe with marijuana residue "up to his mouth and he sucks on it, pulls it away, sucks on it, pulls it way. And it’s done about three times," say San...

A robbery suspect was shot and killed by LAPD early Tuesday morning in Canoga Park after a short foot chase. Police responded to a 911 call of an attempted robbery of two people outside a gas station on Topanga Canyon and Roscoe boulevards shortly after midnight, reports the L.A. Times. As police arrived the suspect ran and allegedly displayed a handgun. The suspect did not fire at police, according to officials, but a handgun...

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An armed man waving his gun at bystanders on skid row was shot and injured by LAPD on Sunday evening downtown in the 500 block of San Julian Street. The suspect, reportedly upset over a stolen laptop, grabbed a weapon from a backpack and began pointing it at people on the sidewalk, including at a woman in a wheelchair. The man fled to a nearby apartment where officers found him arguing with another person....