Zach Behrens

Thomas Hawk San Francisco photographer Thomas Hawk, whose name spread around the internet after a contentious ousting at SFMOMA, was in the Los Angeles area last month taking photos around the Port of Long Beach when security and police got involved. He was not arrested, but patrols asked him to leave, even though he was legally doing nothing wrong, he says. Yesterday, the FBI visited his home and later spoke to him on the...

The LAPD's Northeast Division officially announced today the capture of two teenage suspects who may be responsible for at least two of the recent street robberies in Silver Lake and could be linked to similar ones in a other neighborhoods in a nearby police division, Jesus Sanchez from The Eastsider LA reports from an earlier press conference. Police recovered iPods, cell phones, guns and knives from the suspects homes. Two other adult males reported...

A wine chalice, chains for drying clothes and a raised bed. Today, over 20 people from various city departments, nonprofits and volunteer groups met to find a long-term solution to keeping the Orange Line bicycle in path in Van Nuys clear of transients and landscaping from growing onto the path. LAist first reported on the dire conditions of the bike path to which the Daily News picked up on. The path is now much...

Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist A 21-year-old man was killed in a gang shooting last night and another man was shot in a botched drug deal at a grocery store early this morning. Around 9:15 p.m., LAPD North Hollywood division officers responded to calls of a possible shooting on the 6600 block of Laurel Canyon. They found 21-year-old Gilberto Solano with a gunshot to the chest. "Investigators determined that the victim and the suspect got...

What's free to hybrid drivers costs the city $300,000 annually. With the budget taking a dive into the red, the LA City Council today voted to end free parking at meters for hybrids beginning in March. "Hybrid vehicle owners who park at meters during the month of February will be given written notices about the end of free parking," notes NBC....

Ticketmaster and Live Nation merged today creating one behemoth of a company called Live Nation Entertainment. The merger, expected to save the companies $40 million and create annual sales worth up to $6 billion, is now subject to an anti-trust review because they would dominate 80% of the market. The new company will fill various rolls including promotion, ticketing and artist management. Ticketmaster has always been under general scrutiny for service charges and the...

If you can see the white stuff, that's the snow | Photo taken from the Porter Ranch Town Center by an LAist Reader Residents in Porter Ranch woke up this morning to a light layer of snow above them in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. It was only a few months ago when a wildfire raged through these hills. Ahhhh, such is life in the Valley....

The San Fernando Valley based Snopes.com has gotten to the bottom of an e-mail floating around to Whittier residents describing one driver being told by another driver that their tire is going flat, so they should pull over so the other one could fix it. The driver said no thanks and went home, finding the tire to be perfectly fine. Robbery and car jacking attempt? That's the conclusion of the e-mail and it states...

Westfield at the Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist Westfield is looking to do a 235,000 square foot expansion of their Sherman Oaks Fashion Square location, bringing back some of the outdoor promenade open air feel it had before the 1994 earthquake. It's been in an extensive community process for over three years with Westfield and neighbors working together, of course, not always agreeing together. After all, this is a regional...

Suspects Rianne Celine Theriault-Odom, 27, of North Hollywood and Nathaniel Marquis Petrillo, 22, of Reseda were arrested Monday afternoon in a Valley hotel. The motive behind last week's attack is unknown, but police say the two were frequent customers at the Tarzana strip club. The victim, Daisy Busby, 27, remains at the Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks in critical condition with burns to over 40 percent of her body....

Of the 5,123 back logged untested rape kits, a majority--3,800--of them have been closed "because detectives arrested someone, prosecutors refused to pursue the case, or police could not determine that a crime had been committed," the LAPD announced yesterday, per the LA Times. However, around 400 of those untested could lead to suspects....

The man behind the wheels of last night's car chase is unofficially identified as Mustafa "Moe" Mustafa. His name has not been released by authorities but family members and police sources told the LA Times his identity. After shooting himself when SWAT team members surrounded the car, he was transported in very critical condition to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Last night's car chase began shortly before 8 p.m. and was widely...