Zach Behrens

With the Summer driving season upon us, The Daily Beast has released a list of the 100 deadliest freeways in the country. And the two mentioned from Southern California made the top 10 with the 15 and the 10 freeways coming in at 4 and 5, respectively. Between 2004-2008, there were 506 fatalities on the 15's 287.26 miles -- that's 1.52 fatal crashes per mile. On the 10's 242.54 in-state miles, there were 387...

At Arlington West in Santa Monica | Photo by denisetaylor☼ via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Oy vey! Now a fix for the Gulf oil spill is two months away. The CHP is saying that there were fewer drunk driving arrests but more traffic deaths this holiday weekend. Sunday night was not quiet in Echo Park and Silver Lake as bike thieves and fires kept residents awake. Get a haircut and a high? A...

A controversial video that surfaced over the weekend showing a LAPD officer apparently trying to kick a bicyclist before police used force on the videographer has prompted cyclists to call for a large turnout at a monthly city meeting tonight. 53 people are already confirmed on Facebook to show up at the...

A Sherman Oaks man died this morning in a crash that halted southbound rush hour traffic. According to the California Highway Patrol's preliminary investigation, the 45-year-old driver of a silver Lexus RX300 was traveling on the 101 Freeway in the Cahuenga Pass when he struck a disabled black Chevy Tahoe blocking the...

A relatively unique car and widespread media attention helped put a suspect of a hit and run behind bars last week. The LAPD asked Twitter users and the news media to spread word about a hit and run that left a 22-year-old valet in a coma. Captured on surveillance video, you can see Benjamin Zelman get run down by an older model yellow VW bug convertible. It didn't take long before two West Hollywood...

dreamyshade/LAist Featured Photos A brave Trader Joe's clerk last night was shot during an after-hours robbery that involved about three suspects who fled. At about 10:20 p.m., two of the suspects entered the Trader Joe's in Eagle Rock and demanded money at gunpoint while a third suspect waited outside in a car. When a gun was pointed at a female clerk, another clerk, reportedly her boyfriend, took a wine bottle and struck the robber...

Photo by Lucyrk in LA via LAist Featured Photos/Flickr California's Senate on Friday unanimously passed a bill that would benefit state coffers, but leave cities with fewer dollars to collect when motorists get cited. Authored by Long Beach Democrat Sen. Jenny Oropeza, SB 949 would prohibit cities from citing motorists under city law instead of already existing state law, which allowed municipalities to keep fines. Opponents say it's just another way for the state...

Yo, Venice! A fight that involved some 70 people on Venice's boardwalk last night has prompted the LAPD to kick up their presence today, according to the LA Times. Around 8 p.m. a fight erupted on the boardwalk near 17th and Windward Avenue...

Retired NASCAR driver Jimmy Neal was let out of jail this morning at 1:30 a.m. for that reckless driving incident a two weeks ago -- that 50 mile chase between San Clemente and La Jolla -- and it didn't take long for him to apparently find trouble again, finds TMZ. "We're told Neal then went to the home of a woman in Lake Forest, CA at around 3:00 AM and police were called three...

A very L.A. pool reflection | Photo by casualtimetravel via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr What if the ambulance doesn't start? L.A. firefighters and mechanics today protested budget cuts, saying low maintenance funding could hurt emergency services. The ACLU and the city of Santa Monica have settled a lawsuit about the treatment of the homeless. "Oh NO! I left my underwear in the oven!" "Three's Company" Star Joyce DeWitt, 61, was sentenced to three...

Beloved actor Gary Coleman has died. The 42-year-old who made his name on Different Strokes was at his Utah home this week when he suffered a brain hemorrhage on Wednesday. "The actor was admitted to the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center and was conscious and lucid until midday Thursday, when his condition worsened and he slipped into unconsciousness," reported USA Today. "Coleman was then placed on life support." After Coleman's career on Different Strokes,...

As if we didn't know that. But here are the numbers, according to a 2003 data the San Bernardino Associated Governments was recently looking at, courtesy of Streetsblog LA. The L.A.-Long Beach-Santa Ana topped the list for miles driven per highway lane-mile. Then their own Riverside-San Bernardino came in second. San Francisco-Oakland took third with San Diego and Sacramento taking fourth and fifth. At ten was Oxnard-Ventura. Non-California cities that made the top 10...