Zach Behrens

A football stadium next to Staples Center? | Photo by victoriabernal via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr An idea to bring a football stadium to downtown Los Angeles has resurfaced, according to LA Times, citing multiple sources. The facility would be in direct competition with a stadium already in the works outside the city--developer Ed Roski's people say the news doesn't affect their progress--but at this point it's just a concept. So here's the...

And that includes some Coachella fans and bandmembers. Eight arriving flights from London, Paris and Amsterdam and nine departure flights, impacting approximately 4,800 passengers, have been canceled due to the temporary closure of airspace over the U.K. and northern Europe. Thanks, Volcanic ash! Confirmed airlines with cancellations include Lufthansa, KLM, Air France, Virgin Atlantic, Air New Zealand, British Airways, American Airlines and United. "Passengers going to/from the U.K. and Europe are advised to check...

At Santa Monica and La Brea | Photo by red.dahlia via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr The AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed labor complaints against nine porn companies, accusing them of knowingly exposing actors to STDS. Hermon Dog Park in Northeast L.A. makes a magazine's #7 pick for top spots in America. Another bicycle hit and run incident goes to trial. $17,346. That's the value of the trip given to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for his...

A Los Angeles Police patrol car is shown at the entrance of the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Orthodox synagogue where a gunman shot and wounded two men Thursday Oct. 29, 2009 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool) A Beverly Hills Police Department SWAT team arrested a suspect today that happened to be the suspect in last October's North Hollywood synagogue shooting. On the 29th of that month, Christopher Littlejohn allegedly walked into the...

LAX officials this morning are reporting that at least two British Airways flights have been canceled today after volcanic ash from Iceland has drifted over Europe. "[Airport Operations is] into the US carriers that fly to Europe too," LAX spokesman Marshall Lowe. More cancellations are expected as further checks are made with airlines. Passengers advised to check with their airlines if they are departing on flights to Europe.” UPDATE: 4 arrival flights and 5...

The LAPD this afternoon released a composite sketch of the suspect in Saturday evening's purse snatching that left one woman injured after she was shot in the arm. He's described as a Hispanic male between 20 and 35 years of age, has a thin-build and is around 5'8". At the time of the incident, he was wearing a dark blue hooded sweatshirt. The incident happened on the 2300 block of Glendale Boulevard, near Silverlake...

One of the major talking points in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" was that Japan continues to hunt whales--under the auspices of scientific study--with the meat sold across the country. It's still illegal to sell to the U.S. or South Korea, but DNA tests have confirmed that the meat from The Hump, the shuttered Santa Monica restaurant caught serving the meat, was from a scientific catch some three years ago....

Photos: gabeshedd/LAist Featured Photos The plan to freeze police hiring, which would deplete the force as officers retired, was rejected by the L.A. City Council yesterday and sent to committee for further study, according to the LA Times. That move, however, comes as job cuts continu across the city, including civilian positions within the police department. "The impacts are very real, as officers are forced to stay at home because of overtime concerns and...

Beyond the Huntington Beach Pier | Photo by morgan.arnold via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr One architect wants to "Save the Peak" by turning the Hollywood Sign into a hotel... literally. While the L.A. Angels of Anaheim were loading onto a bus outside their New York City hotel today, a man committed suicide right in front of them. With people coming and going all night and blacked out windows, El Monte neighbors had suspicions...

Photo Courtesy of Wicks Walker Well, it didn't take long before someone ruined the Banksy fun. LAist reader Wicks Walker said a portion where the security guard with the Jeff Koons dog was is gone. As in someone took a whole chunk of the wall. Compare the above photo to this photo here. Wicks, however, notes the positive of this: "One good thing about this is that this really great piece being lifted will...

A state bill that would prohibit health insurers from raising customers’ rates more than once per year took was approved by the Assembly's Health Committee today. “This measure complements the recent federal health reforms by ensuring that health insurers are prohibited from raising their rates multiple times per year. If insurers raise rates when their subscribers aren’t expecting an increase, cash-strapped families could be forced to give up their coverage,” said Mike Feuer, the...

A water main break caused a fire truck to sink into a Valley Village street (more photos here) | Photo by JeremyRyan via Flickr A couple hours after the L.A. Department of Water & Power announced record-breaking low water use by residents, thanks to conservation efforts, a council committee heard a report about why a series of water main breaks may of occurred last fall. And the reason? Water conservation, according to the report....