Lisa Brenner

Have you seen the not so private parts of this man? Burbank police have a flasher on the loose. The suspect -- white or Latino male, shaved head, approximately 6 feet tall and 35-40 years old -- has exposed himself to three women in the Magnolia Park neighborhood, reports ABC Local.

Cash-starved Los Angeles Unified School District may begin selling student eyeballs to the highest-bidding corporate sponsor. World, meet the Hollywood High Shredded Wheats! LAUSD will meet Tuesday to discuss overturning the district's ban on on-campus corporate advertising in order to raise funds via big biz sponsorship.

Tonight in Extra, Extra!! A masked gunman invades a house, Spiderman invades a church, Money is made of drugs and hormones, US says no to USB, Glee makes themselves sick, and a Study in the Journal of Really?! discovered that rocket fuel is bad for babies.

A judge has ruled that the L.A. Zoo can move forward with its plan to open a controversial new elephant exhibit scheduled to debut on Dec. 16, reports KTLA. However, the lawsuit to stop the expansion filed by late actor Robert Culp will also move forward.

Lobster Cobb at Jer-Ne (Photo by Julie Wolfson / LAist) Relaying information back to headquarters, LAist Lifestyle Editor Julie Wolfson has been on location in Marina Del Rey to uncover the secret truth abou... WE INTERRUPT THIS REPORT TO BRING YOU: Lobster Cobb!!!!! This beautiful, indulgent salad of sweet lobster, charred corn, tomatoes, avocado, cotija cheese, buttermilk dressing and bright romaine lettuce (no weedy field greens!) was eaten al fresco by the boats in...

A high-speed pursuit came to a crunching halt Friday night with a multi-vehicle wreck in Northridge that injured the runaway suspect and hurt seven other people. The chase began last night around 8:00 p.m. when Malibu officers attempted to stop a driver believed to be under the influence of drugs.

Photo by goingslo via Flickr Northern Mexico woke early Saturday to a 4.9 magnitude shaker near the US border. According to the US Geological Survey, the moderate earthquake hit Baja California at 4:52 a.m. near Guadalupe Victoria located a little over 100 miles south of San Diego. FOX LA reports no notification of casualties or damages "from the earthquake, which occurred at a depth of six miles, in a zone parallel to the well-known...

Mr. Clerks had it out with another airline, this time because he was late and they were jerks. Eight minutes to blastoff and first class tickets in hand Kevin Smith and wife were denied boarding on a Virgin Atlantic flight from JFK on Monday having missed the ten minute pre-leave window. Pleading with the "unfriendly face" about the jetway still being attached and some much-needed medication in the checked luggage another 15 minutes went...

The rear window of a Smart Car was shot and shattered as a woman drove on the 605 Freeway near Downey around 7 p.m. Monday night. According to KTLA, Barbara Henry says she was approaching Florence Ave. when she heard four shots, "I heard four pops and I thought what the heck. And I looked around and people were swerving and I thought, what are they swerving about?" Henry exited the freeway and pulled...

Photo by kevindooley via Flickr Nerdy, sure. But also tremendously costly. A contributing factor to the U.S. Postal Service's budget vortex, "an estimated $134.4 million dollars of its annual revenue is quietly slipping away to counterfeiters and perpetrators of other types of postal fraud," reports FOX LA. Counterfeit stamps have been named one of the 10 biggest threats to USPS revenue with resulting damage playing a part in the $8.5 billion reported loss last...

Tonight in Extra, Extra!! Kids get computers, Recreating TRON, Care packages to Israel, Murdering books for fashion and where to find Miss Fine. Also, leaking stuff about leaks makes you a less desirable future spy.

On suspicion of rape, Wikileaks' Julian Assange is arrested as the U.S. State Department announces it will host UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, notes Gizmodo. "That something as relatively incidental to international security as a sex crime has been pursued by the likes of Interpol...does little to dispel the idea that perhaps Assange is getting special attention because of his day job." A week after calling Assange a "high-tech terrorist" the...