Zach Behrens

Is Jay trying to outdo Conan before he even starts? Following up on President Barack Obama's appearance last week, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in town and will appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," to "discuss her years of high-profile public service, and her new areas of focus following the presidency of George W. Bush," according to a news release per Marketwatch....

Photo: tomsaint11/Flickr A male pedestrian died this afternoon around the corner from the LA County-USC Medical Center after a forklift ran over him at the old ambulance entrance of the hospital. Preliminary reports show that the operator was carrying a load of unknown contents and did not see the pedestrian, who was not part of the construction crew. As of 4:00 p.m., the man completely remained under the forklift, nearly two hours after the...

Photo: Brian Frank If you live in neighborhoods or regions such as Silver Lake, Hollywood, Culver City, Koreatown, South LA or the Westside, there is a good chance there's a polling place waiting to take your vote (see a map and more info on today's election here). In fact, the County of Los Angeles is spending $2.2 million on today's primary election for the 26th State Senate seat vacated by Mark Ridley-Thomas when before...

Photo by CarbonNYC via Flickr A few minutes before noon, one man was injured in a possible gang related drive-by shooting near Little Ethiopia on the 5600 block of Pico Blvd. The preliminary investigation revealed that the injured man got into a verbal dispute with the assailants before the shooting, according to LAPD Spokesman Richard French He was shot in the stomach before running into Headmaster Barber Shop where he collapsed inside. The victim...

Photo by GarySe7en via Flickr On Saturday night, two cyclists were detained, handcuffed and cited for small infractions including incorrect address on a driver's license and no bicycle license, although the law regarding bicycle licenses has been suspended by City Council. The triviality that took place is now on the record. "This is how I spent my Saturday night," cyclists Alex Thompson said this morning as he held the above photo of him in...

Cahuenga Pass in 1911 | Photo via the Museum of the San Fernando Valley, Gift of Gary Fredburg 2008 On Sunday at LA Heritage Day, when over 60 local historical groups gathered at Heritage Square, one of the most crowded booths was from the Museum of the San Fernando Valley. The museum's president, Jerry Fecht, displayed hundreds of historical postcards drawing people to see what their Valley home looked like before massive development. Fecht...

At the base of the San Andreas Fault, where 42 small quakes struck over the weekend, a moderate 4.8 magnitude quake occurred this morning around 4:55 a.m., the LA Times is now reporting. It was followed by 23 aftershocks including a 3.1 shaker. "The only interesting thing about this one is that it occurred at the end of the San Andreas fault," said Kate Hutton, a seismologist at Caltech, to the Times. "Bombay Beach...

Between Saturday and Monday morning, 42 small earthquakes shook, ranging in in magnitude from 0.5 to 3.3, near the Salton Sea, east of Los Angeles, according to the LA Times. "The worry for scientists comes from a case in 1987, when a magnitude-6.2 earthquake on one of the crossing faults appeared to trigger a 6.6 quake 12 hours later on the Superstition Hills fault to the south. The San Andreas fault is north of...

Photo via Los Cerritos Wetlands Trust It appears to be a misunderstanding, but on Friday a construction company began clearing a field of fragile ecohabitat in the Los Cerritos Wetlands, which is the largest salt marsh in Los Angeles County. "I sure didn't wake up today planning to spend 8 hours near the corner of Loynes and Studebaker watching tractors and earth movers scrape bare a fragile and important part of the Los Cerritos...

Wow. Depending on where you are, it's either slightly windy or super windy. The National Weather Service has kept many areas under a wind advisory--meaning winds are over 35 MPH--and downgraded others. Winds blew up to 83 MPH at Whitaker Peak near Castaic and 59 MPH in the Malibu Hills this morning. Affected wind advisory areas, lasting up until at least 3 p.m., include Topanga, Santa Clarita, Santa Barbara and other cities near mountains...

Daily News columnist Rick Orlov yesterday took a look at outgoing City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's last eight years in office. He notes that despite the accomplishments, the public tenor does not reflect that and it got off to a bad start day one. "When [former Mayor Richard] Riordan left office, former City Attorney James Hahn became mayor and felt he did not need the advice of Delgadillo, then the newly elected city attorney. And...

Photo by Alex Thompson A report last year from LAPD Chief of Police William Bratton signaled the end of enforcing bicycle licenses, a law that was so little known within the department, you couldn't obtain one at most police stations like you were supposed to. City Council then approved the matter in January. Fast forward to last Saturday night when two bicyclists were detained in handcuffs, one of them for not having a bicycle...