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Hollywood Boulevard | Photo by Greg Lilly Photos via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr A car to car shooting left one injured in Silver Lake on Monday. Live in Venice, the South Bay or elsewhere in California's 36th District? A deep look into the Democratic candidates on transportation and cycling issues. In response to the deadly 2008 Chatsworth train crash that left 25 dead and over one hundred injured and thought to be caused...

Arizona power commissioner Gary Pierce's challenge to Los Angeles, saying the city should stop receiving power generated in his state because of its boycott, is really picking up steam. Now a poll posted on MSNBC asks this: "Should Arizona have the right to pull the plug on L.A. if the city goes through its boycott?" 34,447 votes later and 86.3% say, yes, Arizona should have the right. 12.5% say no and 1.3% say "I...

Photo: chuckmartel A patient being treated in downtown Los Angeles stabbed the firefighter who came to his aid, according to ABC7. The suspect then fled, entering a building and prompting police to shut down the area around the 600 block of Main Street (map). Condition of the firefighter was not immediately known (Update: stable condition). The firefighter was responding to a 10:50 a.m. medical call. The man apparently ran into the Cecil Hotel....

Photo by Atwater Village Newbie via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr The L.A. City Council yesterday voted to increase parking fines by $5. While that won't take effect until the full budget is approved and then some 30 to 45 days after that, it would make Los Angeles the priciest place in the region to receive a parking ticket. Here are a few violations and what they will cost if everything goes to the...

Photo by *Jeffrey* via Flickr Last week a measure to generate $1.4 billion in revenue for the state was temporarily tabled. Not because legislators didn't want the money, but because the money wouldn't help solve California's budget problems. SB 1210 "would impose an excise tax of 1 cent per teaspoon of sugar or other caloric sweetener in beverages," with revenues going to a special fund to health programs in communities, according to the LA...

At Fairfax and Santa Monica | Photo via Kimberly Kane's posterous It's no Banksy, but these won't last long either. Poster-sized photos of adult superstar Sasha Grey laying naked went up on the streets of Los Angeles last night. Director and actor Kimberly Kane posted a few online -- it's in promotion of her beau Dennis McGrath, who has a photography opening this week....

Photo: Matt McGrath Photography In Monday's marathon-length budget meeting of the L.A. City Council, a horde of motions were submitted and passed. Although one will reduce library hours even more, another could bring a litlte relief to library users. Councilmember Tony Cardenas wants individual branches, "in consultation with the Council Districts," to base hours of operation on "actual patronage and circulation to better respond to reduced staffing," he wrote. Library staff will have to...

Photo by CarbonNYC via Flickr Police want residents in the Elysian Park and Chinatown area to be on alert after a pair of con men scammed their way into a residence, making of with $2,000 in cash. A 92-year-old Chinese women and her adult niece answered the door last week to find two men posing as AT&T employees with fake work orders. Once inside, one distracted the women while the other searched for valuables...

Photo by casualtimetravel via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Actors Ashley Olsen, Pamela Adlon ("Californication") and Jarrod Spector (Jersey Boys) were all aboard an United Airlines flight from New York City to Los Angles that made an emergency landing in Washington D.C. due to a cockpit fire. What killed 40 fish in Echo Park Lake over the weekend? Say goodbye to the giant fork sculpture placed at a fork in the road in Pasadena....

Detail of the new bicycle Metro Map, featuring a section of the Valley where the Orange and Red lines meet. Blue lines = Bike Path, Pink = Bike Lane, Green = Bike Route For Bike Week LA, Metro this afternoon announced new rules that are sure to make bicycling commuters happy. Current law bans bicycles from many Metro Rail trains during rush hour. This Summer, however, plans are afoot to life the restriction "once...

The Los Angeles City Council usually does not meet on Mondays, but as the full group begins to discuss and consider next year's fiscal budget, which begins July 1st, a special meeting has been called to avoid mass layoffs. 1,761 jobs could be saved, but that depends on how things play out. 761 of them would be saved if unions accept more paycuts and up to 1,000 would be saved if by October 1st,...

Lakers coach Phil Jackson models the championship ring alongside Kobe Bryant and the team during last year's celebratory parade and rally (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) Coach Phil Jackson earlier this month expressed his view on basketball and immigration saying that, basically, the two shouldn't be mixed. Despite that, a group is planning to picket outside tonight's game between the Lakers and the Phoeix Suns, the team that wore "Los Suns" jerseys on Cinco de Mayo,...