Zach Behrens

Photo: Fred Camino Not owning your own property can be a bitch. And such is life when leasing from the government, one who will now be using some of the land for a transportation corridor. The Orange Line busway extension from the Warner Center up Canoga Avenue to the Chatsworth Train Station is slated to break ground this June. That means the businesses that have been leasing right-of-way property from Metro--some have for 50...

Another comic great has left us. Dom Deluise, 75, reportedly died last night at a Los Angeles area hospital. "One of the truly funniest comics, EVER!!! "His brand of humor will be greatly missed," an LAist reader wrote in an e-mail this morning. "I'm actually a thin, serious person, but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies," DeLuise once joked about himself. His death follows last week's loss of Vegas performer...

Agapito Nicolas | via LA Times The same day USC student Adriana Bachan died near campus in a hit-and-run, a 56-year-old man also died in a similar incident across town. Agapito Gaspar Nicolas was hit by an alleged silver Volkswagen Jetta while in a marked crosswalk on Figueroa Street at Avenue 51 in Highland Park. He later died in the hospital While Bachan's death took the media, police and city politicians by storm, Nicolas'...

Ask a motorcop why they write tickets to cars disobeying signs and pedestrians walking against the man's hand and you'll hear a lot of them say it's a sign of "arrogance." When justified like that, they have no problem writing hundreds of tickets. Last Friday, StreetsblogLA blogger Damien Newton observed a sting at Western and Wilshire: "I counted two pedestrians who didn't make it across before the red. One of whom was an elderly...

Photo by VeryBadLady via Flickr Break into this Mar Vista man's car and you just might get shot. When three men were burglarizing his car early Sunday morning, he didn't call police, he stuff a pistol in his pants and confronted them. That led to a fight and one of the hamburglars getting shot in the cheek. The 23-year-old is now in the hospital in stable condition and the resident was released after the...

Jared Irmas/City of LA $20.3 million of stimulus money from the federal government will go towards Hire LA, the city's program to place 16- to 24-year-olds in summer and permanent full time jobs around the city. “Hire LA will create over 16,000 jobs for Los Angeles youth and set them on-course toward a steady paycheck and a better life,” Mayor Villaraigosa said in a statement. “Today, Los Angeles becomes the first city in the...

As predicted by health officials last week, Swine Flu would undoubtedly hit Los Angeles County. That news came Saturday night shortly before the 11 p.m. news hour--it was a total of three then--and today the number was upped to 11 across the county. Five of those cases are in Long Beach. The best advise is not to stress yourself out over this and just make sure you keep healthy. Here are recommendations--you've heard them...

The National Weather Service is predicting a great five-day outlook if you live near the coast: upper 60s and 70s all week long (and weekend, too!). For those inland, it will be in the 70s until Wednesday things move north on the thermometer into the lower 80s until the weekend when the 70s make a return. However, the Valley never gets it so sweet: save for Wednesday and Thursday when temperatures in some ares...

Detective Lydia Adams, right, is pissed she has to arrive to Hollywood & Highland while working a South LA murder Did you watch Southland on NBC last night? Only four shows in and it looks like they'll be green lit for season two already. Last night's episode was extremely interesting, literally ripping topics from the headlines just months old: The Rape Kit backlog: The show focused on a backlog of 3,000 rape kits, which...

That was a nice shaker. At 6:11 p.m., a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck in the Santa Monica Mountains, south of Westlake Village and northwest from Malibu. The Los Angeles Fire Department is in "Earthquake Mode as a preventive measure." They have no reports of damage yet. UPDATE: As of 7:05 p.m., the fire department has stepped down from "Earthquake Mode." However, there is now one reported minor injury that occured when an elderly woman,...

They planned on opening fire during an assembly on some future date, but before any of that could happen, police caught on and arrested them. Two students, aged 15 and 16, had stolen handguns that they brought to campus at least three times, including yesterday. "We believe, they felt like it could not be accomplished ... because of the safety in place everyday at this school," Principal Claudia Karnoski said. The suspected students quickly...

Photo by treyevan via Flickr Who knew? May Day is much more than immigration. In addition to being Buy Indie Day, it's about guerilla gardening, too. Specifically, it's International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day. That means that the good clandestine folks at Los Angeles Guerilla Gardening are participating and encouraging others to do the same. At this moment, it's too late to order a delivery of seeds from the group, but that shouldn't stop you...