Zach Behrens

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....

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....

Three small power outages have knocked out approximately 1500 customers total in or near Van Nuys, Koreatown and Hollywood. Spread evenly across the three neighborhoods, all outages were due to rain. Crews are currently out working to restore the power, which is expected to happen by this afternoon, weather permitting, according to Stephanie Interiano of the DWP. In Van Nuys, the outage is affecting an area near Van Nuys and Burbank; in Hollywood, near...

Of the 79 units being auctioned off last night at the Rowan Lofts in Downtown Los Angeles, 63 of those found new potential owners, finds Curbed LA who was there: "The most expensive unit sold today was a penthouse that was originally priced at $785,000--it sold for $534,000. The minimum bid on that unit was $490,000. The three least expensive units sold for $207,000--two were originally priced at $335,000 and one at $317,900, respectively,...

Shepard Fairey with Obama poster | Photo: Jonathan Alcorn via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr First the Associated Press threatened to sue artist Shepard Fairey by tomorrow. Now Fairey is beating them to the punch. Today he filed suit against the news agency to vindicate him from accusations that he violated copyright laws. At issue is a Mannie Garcia photo from 2006 of the then-Illinois Senator Barack Obama. Fairey admitted to using that image...

Tom Andrews/LAist After news about a slew of recent robberies caused concern in the Silver Lake and Echo Park communities, the LAPD today announced that they have arrested two suspects. "Two are in custody and the invesgiation is continuing," said Detective Rick Ortiz over the phone, who said the police will try to file the case with the District Attorney tomorrow. More information is expected to come out tomorrow at a press conference. Update:...

Welcome back, snow! As of 11:33 a.m., snow has caused the closure of the Angeles Forest Highway between the foothill communities and Sierra Highway. Additionally, the California Highway Patrol is running traffic breaks in both directions on the Grapevine and the 14 Freeway between Crown Valley to Santiago, according to the City of Santa Clarita's Emergency Information blog....

Photo: Jonathan Alcorn (Sundogg) via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr The Oscars is over two weeks away, but the international event takes weeks to set up for. Here's what's going this weekend: Close north curb lane of Hollywood Boulevard from Highland Avenue to south east corner of Orange Drive from 6 a.m. Sunday, February 8 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, February 24. (Except MTA buses until February 15, 2009) Partially close north sidewalk of Hollywood...

Instead of throwing all the unused food away, Doomie of Chinatown's about-to-be-closed vegan restaurant eponymously named after him will have a $10 all you can eat grub fest this weekend. But there's one catch, it's not going to be in Chinatown, it will be in... South Gate. The money raised will go towards them opening a new restaurant sometime in the near future, but many are hoping it's going to be much closer than......

It only takes 20 minutes from take off to landing for a plane to go from Catalina Island to John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana. The chartered Bonanza plane, piloted by Mark Hogland, was carrying two others and took off around 4:50 p.m. yesterday with weather causing low visibility. It was supposed to land at 5:10 p.m., but never made it. The Coast Guard was eventually warned, nearly five hours later, at 10:30 p.m....

For unknown reasons, two men masked by bandanas walked into the Coffee Shop Cafe in San Gabriel last night around 11:15 and opened fire on the customers leaving at least one man dead and six others injured. The men then ran away leaving no one robbed and police puzzled over motive. The deceased man's identity has not been released and security cameras in the cafe were not in working order to record the incident....

Nadya Suleman talks to Ann Curry The mother who gave birth to octuplets last week has finally gone public. Nadya Suleman, 33, of Whittier appeared on NBC's TODAY for an exclusive interview revealing a lot more about her: Ann Curry: "How did an only child end up with 14 children?" Suleman: "That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family, and I just longed for certain connections and...