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Photo by Sloane Berrent via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr It's going to get quite hotter this weekend with temperatures reaching into the 90s on Saturday in Coachella and on Sunday in Los Angeles. Los Angeles: For today, expect sunny skies with highs in the mid to upper 60s at the beaches and mid 70s inland. Tonight will be in the low 50s. Saturday will start to get warmer with highs in the 70s...

The California Supreme Court is rumored to announce their ruling on the fate of gay marriage as early as Monday. But as they figure things out, New York Governor David Paterson yesterday introduced legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. "There is clearly a problem in that those individuals who are gay or lesbian who would live in a civil union are still not entitled to somewhere between 1,250 and 1,300 civil protections" that are afforded...

Today and yesterday, Orange County residents within 50 miles of Camp Pendleton might be feeling some shaking sensations, but they won't be an earthquake (well, unless an earthquake actually happens). “F-18s will be dropping up to 500 pounds of high explosive munitions into the Whiskey and Zulu impact areas," an advisory from the marine base says. Additionally, other units will be mortar live firing of high explosive munitions from 6 a.m. to midnight. “Depending...

At approximately 7:24 p.m., a suspicious package outside the CNN building at Sunset and Vine was reported to the LAPD prompting the closure of surrounding streets and nearby stores such as Amoeba Records. Sunset was shut down between Wilcox and Ivar and Cahunega from Selma to De Longpre. Word spread on Twitter that the incident was a "bomb threat," but officials with LAPD Media Relations emphasized it was a suspicious package and no threat...

"Downtown has become a really hot place to play. I thought I would never live to see the day, but as this downturn continues we are seeing more restaurants open, more nightclubs open, and they are doing just fine, thank you very much." That's Carol Schatz, head of the Downtown Center Business Improvement District (DCBID), speaking yesterday about the latest survey about downtown. Because census data focuses on residents and not workers and visitors...

On April 4th, it was halftime during an NCAA game so Gary Norris and two friends headed to the park across the street to shoot some hoops. He put his belongings, including an iPod to the side of the court while they played. At some point, two young men in their teens or early 20s walked up and took his iPod, which prompted Norris to jog after them to a nearby alley where one...

Detail of the tar | Photo by Laenulfean via Flickr Here in Los Angeles, the non profit charged with conserving most of Catalina Island's 76 square miles is not exactly one you hear about every day. But who knew that the Catalina Island Conservancy has been producing a daily environmental podcast for over three years now that is broadcast on over 225 radio stations across the country? They're short and sweet, fact checked by...

At approximately 11:40 a.m., a gunman entered a lobby of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and opened fire. A source told the LA Times that "the gunman first shot a pharmacy manager several times in the head. He then ran through the hospital wielding at least two guns, searching for a second man. He eventually caught up with that man and shot him multiple times in the head and neck, the source said. The...

A newer model motor home caught fire last night around 1:20 a.m. leaving one man dead in South LA. Firefighters quickly arrived to 6050 Gramercy Place in the Cantebury Knolls neighborhood and extinguished the fire within ten minutes. Upon inspection, a charred body was found inside. The cause of the fire is under investigation....

Photo by Zack Sheppard via Flickr “I think we’re going to have to make some lifestyle changes...particularly how we use water outside,” said Bob Yamada, water resources manager for the San Diego County Water Authority before yesterday's decision by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) to cut water supplies by 10% to agencies such as San Diego, Long Beach and Los Angeles. The drought has gotten better over the last few months, but water levels...

Fern Canyon | Photo by Fovea Centralis via Flickr Although TV host Huell Howser is a local to Los Angeles, the man loves all of California. Yesterday he disclosed to the California State Parks Foundation that his favorite state park hike is through Fern Canyon in Prairie Creek Redwood State Park, which compliments the nearby Redwood National Park in Northern California: &righticonhover=0x333232&text=0x333232&slider=0xF2F2F2&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0xFFFFFF&loader=0x838383&soundFile=http://www.calparks.org/podcasts/podcast/cspf_best_trails_howser.mp3"> But all hope is not lost for Howser and Southern California. His...

About $6.5 billion in taxes go unpaid each year in California, which could pay the salary for every high school teacher in the state, Dan Simon reported in a CBS/KCAL live report about the delinquent taxpayers list that was released last week. That list included Sinbad, Burt Reynolds and Dionne Warwick, but the man who topped it with nearly $10 million in unpaid taxes is a Northern Californian investor and landlord Winson T Lee--he...