Lisa Brenner

Curbed LA followed up on rumors that Trader Joe's is being considered as a possible tenant at the A.F. Gilmore 3rd and Fairfax retail project set to rise on the current site of a parking lot and plant nursery. Vice president for A.F. Gilmore, Mark Panatier, responded, "We're talking to lots of folks," regarding the retail space. When asked directly about Trader Joe's? he repeated, "We're talking to lots of folks." So... Not a...

Photo of San Marino by R.E.~ via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Burglars broke into the home of Mary Jean Lynberg last Wednesday ransacking the bedroom, tearing out the closets looking for wall safes and taking off with valuables like jewelry, and her deceased husband. Charles A. Lynberg died of cancer three years ago leaving his wife alone in their house of 25 years; his cremated ashes now taking up residency in a...

Perhaps upon teleporting to the future, a man in his 80's driving a 1932 Model A Ford was T-boned by a pizza delivery car in Downey on Sunday. The delivery driver was not injured, the elderly driver suffered minor head injuries (is there such a thing?), but the old-timey wheels suffered serious damage. He may need the DeLorean to get back....

A 32-year-old father unintentionally ran over his 23-month-old son on Sunday while moving a truck from his driveway in Costa Mesa, reports the LA Times. According to police, Armando Medina did not know that his youngest son, identified as Alexis Medina, was standing in front of the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado, and felt his vehicle "go over a bump," which he thought was a speed bump, until neighbors began screaming. The boy was take to...

Is the Third Street Promenade shoe shine guy losing his job because we don't dress fancy enough? If the L.A. SWAT team wants to get into your house they don't huff and puff, they use a water cannon. Venice Beach vigilantes leave a Sicilian message for a touchy car alarm that won't shut up.

Ten people were injured, some seriously, in traffic accident downtown today near Alameda and 1st street involving two cars and a mini bus from the First Chinese Baptist Church. According to the LA Times the incident was reported around 8:30 a.m. and 38 firefighters responded on the scene near Little Tokyo. Victims were taken to three area hospitals....

A brush fire in Riverside County that blazed through 45 acres of light grass is now contained, reports ABC7. The fire was spotted at 12:20 p.m. in the area of Pacific Avenue and Canal Street in Rubidoux and spread quickly causing concern, however no injuries or evacuations were reported....

Wearing uniforms and falsely claiming to be with the water department, burglars in Garden Grove have been gaining access to homes, stealing cash, jewelry and other valuables from mostly elderly residents, reports KTLA. Authorities released a sketch of one of the thieves, "described as Hispanic man, about 5 feet 3 inches tall, with a heavyset build."...

Questions raised in the chilling tale of a 94-year-old woman found in Calabasas freezer.LA Weekly take an op-ed bite of the hot pocket hot button issue of banning fast food.Asia's red palm weevil, the biggest threat to palm trees worldwide, is discovered in Laguna Beach.

A truck packed with hundreds of big screen TVs overturned this morning in East L.A., reports KTLA, shutting down traffic for nearly an hour at the heavily-travelled interchange of Telegraph Rd, Triggs St, So. Atlantic Blvd and Ferguson Dr. CHP and L.A. County fire officials are investigating several possible causes for the accident, including the driver's speed and high winds in the area....

Our local psycho series of attacks on ex-girlfriends continues with a Ventura man being arrested today after setting off two dry ice bombs outside the home of his former girlfriend. Responding to a report of a single gunshot in an apartment complex, police arrived on 700 block of S. Hill Road to find, instead, dry ice bombs exploding on resident Anna Gibson's front porch, reports KABC. Ventura County Police Department officers contacted Gibson's ex-boyfriend,...

A Union Pacific train collided with an abandoned car on the railroad tracks in Palmdale early Saturday morning closing down east-west tracks for several hours. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department is searching for the owner of the abandoned vehicle to determine if the car was "stolen, broken down or left purposely on the tracks," according to KTLA. No injuries on the train were reported....