Zach Behrens

The LA Weekly says "Councilman Tom LaBonge registered his own dog this week after voicing an objection to a successful City Council motion to have animal services workers go after unregistered canines in the city." For LaBonge, it is a civil liberties issue. The motion at hand lets the Department of Animal Services work with the Department of Water and Power, which "maintains a customer database of households with dogs so that meter readers...

Reader submitted photo Not too long after city officials told a pair of Silver Lake residents that Phil Lumbang's popular "Hello!" mural must come down, a different mural in downtown's official Gallery Row neighborhood is targeted for removal today. Los Angeles artist Emmeric James Konrad's mural at the Down and Out Bar on Spring Street prompted a complaint, which alerted city officials to the illegal mural. Although the mural was apparently commissioned by the...

The ExpressLanes project, which someday will allow solo car drivers to share carpool lanes for a price along the 110 and 10 freeways, could be delayed when the Metro Board votes on a request to do so today. At issue is the 10 Freeway between the 605 and 710 freeways. Unlike the 110 Freeway, the 10 doesn't have two carpool, or hot, lanes. If Metro is given time to add one of these lanes,...

Photo by hall.chris25 via LAist Featured Photos on Flikcr Yesterday during the meeting of the Los Angeles City Council, alternatives to laying off up to 4,000 employees was discussed. But in order to see those results, the mantra of "sharing the sacrifice" reared its head again. LA Times' Steve Lopez poses the question: "Would you take a pay cut to save your co-workers' jobs?" A 10% cut to a worker paid $50,000 a year...

Photo by Salina Canizales via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is in Washington D.C. and spent yesterday lobbying the feds and congress about the "Subway to the Sea." He wants it built in 10 years, but local funding could not support that timeline. However, in about 30 years, thanks to half-cent sales tax generated by Measure R, the funding will be there. The "bridge loan" would be money upfront to be...

Photo by victoriabernal via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Cyclists are fuming after charges are not being filed in a case where a hit and run incident left a cyclist in the hospital. If you remember from when we first posted about this, witnesses said the driver got of her porsche, looked at him and left. She later went to the police station, apparently saying she thought she hit something. Although the police let...

At Pasadena City College | Photo by California CPA via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr It's cloudy out there today and that could mean rain, or at least a 20% chance of it this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. By tonight, the chances are upped to 50%. Temperatures today will remain in the lower 60s. Thursday will be partly cloudy, once again with highs in the 60s, but no rain is expected....

For those who like to think ahead, take note. If our predictions hold true, Danger Mouse is going to blow up with their new Broken Bells album at SXSW, meaning their March 14th concert at The Troubadour is going to be a big deal. By this Friday afternoon, when tickets go on sale for that concert (2 tickets maximum), expect to hit Craigslist if you didn't make a purchase. Broken Bells -- if you...

Is this why the price of tickets to games are increasing? LA Times sports columnist Michael Hiltzik today rails on Frank and Jamie McCourt--now divorcd--for not paying state and federal taxes on the $108 million they've made over the the last four years. He dives into their lifestyle (such as the eight homes they own) and notes, "the point is not to begrudge the McCourts these luxuries. The point is to question why we...

To date, Caltech has earned themselves 82 awards from the year-old American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, totaling more than $33 million and supporting 93 jobs, the school announced today. The money has gone towards studies on how to reduce jet noise, an upgrade to the Southern California Seismic Network, a catalog of jellyfish DNA and the California High School Cosmic Ray Observatory (CHICOS) program, which provides high school students access to cosmic ray research,...

There's the old (and incorrect) adage "lightning never strikes the same place." Maybe we can now add another wrong one: "man never gets struck by a train twice." Yesterday morning, a man was hit by a Metrolink train in Laguna Niguel. He wasn't hurt too badly--hand and arm injuries--but police are scratching their heads because he's the same guy who was hit by the commuter rail line two weeks ago. "That's a bit peculiar,"...

A supposed taped radio conversation between a Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic and a UCLA Medical Center staffmember about Michael Jackson's arrival on the day he died appears to be a fake. "We have a male, 50. Pop star Michael Jackson. Unresponsive, no pulse. Tried to resuscitate him. Unsuccessful. We are en route," the male voice said, according to CNN.