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Richard Bradford, Murder Parolee, Ran Drug Rehab Center Endorsed By Mayor Villaraigosa

A murder convict on parole who's been off the radar since 1980 was arrested in Monrovia over the weekend, state officials announced today. And what has Richard Bradford been up to? According to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), he's been running "a high-end drug rehabil ... More >>

Duane Van Tuinen: L.A. Times Subscriber List Used For $1 Mil Burglary Ring, Cops Say

It all started with a call of a suicidal woman in Monrovia. But when cops arrived, instead of a basket case, they found "a large cache of cameras and other electronics," according to Monrovia police. That led them to sniff around and obtain search warrants that included a storage facility cops say ... More >>

West Hollywood Apartment Blast Blamed On Marijuana Honey Oil Extraction

For the second time this month in Southern California, authorities say suspects extracting "honey oil" from marijuana sparked an explosive blaze. This one happened over the weekend in the 1200 block of North Havenhurst Drive in West Hollywood, according to L.A. County Fire officials. Rescuers resp ... More >>

Marijuana Honey Oil Process Sparks Explosion, With 3 Burned In Monrovia, Authorities Say

When experts warn, don't try this at home, they really mean it. The latest example: Three men were badly burned in Monrovia over the weekend after, cops say, they tried and failed to convert marijuana into a potent and syrupy form of hash known as honey oil. The trio was using butane, authorities ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Local Gravenstein Apples Your Two Week Window

If the Red Delicious apple was hard to grow and had at most a three week harvest window, we safely predict the farmers market cognoscenti would be making at-dawn market runs to the one or two vendors who offered it -- to buy it by the crate. That rush-and-grab mantle currently belongs to the Graven ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Kyoho Grapes

Summer is waning, but when we say this most people point us to the markets and say, woah, slow down. Peaches are at their peak, corn is sweet and the melons perfume a whole block. The autumnal equinox is still months away -- September 22 -- and we haven't even hit August yet. It's because the ... More >>

VIDEO: Bear Takes Memorial-Day Dip in Posh Monrovia Swimming Pool

Is a "Rise of the Planet of the Black Bears" playing out in northeast Los Angeles County? First there was Glendale bear, a strapping young dude who yielded for no pedestrian texter in his hunt for the mighty meatball. Then came Altadena bear, a mother of two who chose a residential sidewalk tree fo ... More >>

Shanghai Confusion Meat: Adventures in Canned Ham at Shanghai Dumpling House in Monrovia

One of the great things about the abundance of Chinese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley comes in discovering unique menu items. These can range from hard-to-find distinctive regional dishes to the mundane that simply got lost in translation. When it came to our attention that a restaurant w ... More >>

Trader Joe's Cookie Butter, aka Speculoos, is Back!

ProfessorSalt.comTrader Joe's Cookie Butter, before they ran out last year​If you've never experienced the creamy, crackalicious wonder that is Trader Joe's Cookie Butter, it might be because the shipment they imported late last year caught on like wildfire. They've been sold out since before ... More >>

Buy This Now: Apple Wood From Ha's Apple Farm

It's that lateral-management time of year. But unless you're an apple or pear farmer, this is about as important to you as doing your taxes early. All you need to know is that proper lateral management ensures efficient fruit production, focusing a tree's energy where it counts -- building strong li ... More >>

Trader Joe's to See Angry Farm Workers March on Headquarters: They Want Better Wages, Improved Conditions in Fields

​Tis the season of protest. Some angry people will be occupying Trader Joe's today, and not just for the frozen tamales. Unfortunately, this is not a case of occupiers carbo-loading for winter. Rather farm workers are pissed at Trader Joe's for failing to join a movement that seeks to improve ... More >>

Lawsuit: Hsinlei Shao Says Monrovia Cop Beat Her Into Homelessness

​This is one of those it-seriously-sucks-to-be-you kind of stories. It's about a woman, roughly 5' 2" and 115 pounds, who was trying to deliver time-sensitive blood samples to a medical facility, when she got pulled over by a Monrovia cop. And let's just say, the woman never did deliver those bl ... More >>

Is Al Qaeda Planning Terrorist Attack on AeroVironment Inc? Here's the L.A. County Firm's 5 Coolest Spy Drones

strangecosmos.coWind turbines at the AeroVironment facility in Monrovia. Also pretty cool.​Reports abound this morning of a possible Al Qaeda attack plan against 11 officials at L.A. County's own AeroVironment Inc., a top drone manufacturer in the U.S. War on Terror. Employees of the Monrovia ... More >>

The USDA's New Food Desert Locator: Map Your Bad Food Day

Screenshot of Food Desert Locator map of area food deserts, in pink​ If you live in Los Angeles, you may sometimes feel like you're in a food desert. It is often maddeningly hot. You may find yourself bereft of food trucks, or good ones at any rate. You may be reading this right now from the o ... More >>

Kevin Wolfe Pochter -- Hiker Accused of Killing Old Friend at L.A. Forest Campground -- Leads Sheriff on 'Armed and Dangerous' Manhunt

Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentSuspected friend-killer Kevin Pochter: On the loose in the San Gabriel Mountains​This guy's good. After allegedly murdering "lifelong friend" Dean Ron Albert, 53, deep in the Angeles National Forest on Thursday, Huntington Beach resident Kevin Wolfe Pocht ... More >>

Not Saving the Oaks

Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentSuspected friend-killer Kevin Pochter: On the loose in the San Gabriel Mountains​This guy's good. After allegedly murdering "lifelong friend" Dean Ron Albert, 53, deep in the Angeles National Forest on Thursday, Huntington Beach resident Kevin Wolfe Pocht ... More >>

Kid Censorship Crackdown Spreads To L.A. County: Monrovia School Superintendent Bans Students From Performing 'Rent'

Don't let "Rent" happen to your kids: Here, Disney star Vanessa Hudgens falls prey to its deviant powers​There seems to be a recent spike in adults trying to keep Gen Y from all things sexy. First we saw Huckleberry Finn butchered a few days ago by NewSouth Books, who thinks replacing "nigger" ... More >>

Cisneros Siblings Plead Not Guilty In Connection With USC-UCLA Brawl, Stabbings

KTLA NewsNot guilty pleas were entered in connection with last week's USC-UCLA brawl.​That outbreak of ugly violence before last weekend's big USC-UCLA game was a family affair, at least partly, authorities allege. While the father of the Cisneros clan was arrested and released in connection ... More >>

Two Stabbed In UCLA-USC Melee In Pasadena Rose Bowl Parking Lot Ahead Of Football Game

Fans went gangsta at the Rose Bowl.​Updates after the jump with names of three additional suspect-siblings arrested (not four) and one suspect being released. See a post with video of the brawl here. First posted at 8:31 p.m. Saturday. Each year we wonder when things are going to go too far. ... More >>

Sweeps in Los Angeles Suburbs Create Fear, say Anti-Police Brutality Activists

San Gabriel Valley TribuneWilmington raids net 41 suspects​ Probation violators received some unexpected guests on Thursday after county probation officers, along with state and federal agents, descended upon multiple locations throughout Covina, Glendale, Monrovia, Pasadena and San Gabriel, ... More >>

$9 Billion Subway-to-Sea Rip-off

War of words erupts when data show tiny ridership won't help jammed L.A. or Westside

Bar Code Bitters: New Local Formula For The Classic

greenbar.bizYour Bartender's Headshot, In Bitters​At last year's Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans, Monrovia-based spirits company Greenbar Collective, formerly known as Modern Spirits, invited numerous bartenders to submit their own bitters formula to a panel of judges (which included the ... More >>

The Original Wine of the Month Club? Only a Bottle Away in Monrovia

Original Wine of the Month ClubPaul, Jr. & Pops Packin' It Old School​These days, most wine shops and wineries have a club program. You know, those clever marketing gimmicks that you inevitably sign up for after one too many glasses of Chablis in the tasting room. The idea for the clubs, accor ... More >>

Emerald Beaut Plums: Late Summer Plums Hit the Fruits Stands

Photo credit: Todd Porter​Emerald Beaut Plums will be showing up at farmers markets this weekend. Many of us have waited long and patiently for this green plum to hit the stands, and at least one farmer, Annie from Sweet Tree Farms, has finally deemed her crop ripe and sent crews up the ladde ... More >>

Classically Suburban Landscapes

Darlene Campbell, "Neighborhood," 2006 Half-completed freeway viaducts that stand like Roman ruins; terraced tract homes aglow in Arcadian twilight; a commuter's view of distant rain clouds hovering over palm trees. These are some of the modern Southern California images of painter Darlene Campbell, ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Chris Brown Deal in the Works? R&B singer Chris Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, may be close to making a plea deal with the District Attorney's office regarding the charges Brown faces in the alleged beating of singer-girlfriend Rihanna. Brown's arraignment has been scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday. ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Sheriff to Close Jails? Going far beyond the early release of county inmates, Sheriff Lee Baca may also close a jail or two to cope with a massive budget shortfall that his department faces. L.A. TimesCandidate Boycotts Own Press Conference L.A. City Councilman and City Attorney candidate Jack Weiss ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

New Mayor in Hot Seat  Mary Su, who was sworn in as Walnut's first Chinese-American woman mayor Wednesday night, is already at the top of recall petitions because she did not display enough ardor in opposing an NFL stadium being planned for neighboring Industry. Hoodie Recall About 300,000 kids ... More >>

Canadian Club: Dusty's Draws in Poutine Heads

New Mayor in Hot Seat  Mary Su, who was sworn in as Walnut's first Chinese-American woman mayor Wednesday night, is already at the top of recall petitions because she did not display enough ardor in opposing an NFL stadium being planned for neighboring Industry. Hoodie Recall About 300,000 kids ... More >>

Oh, That Chickenshit MTA

No one on the governing board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had the courage to tell it like it is to the warring factions that showed up Thursday to push their pet transit projects. The message to the people who want to extend the Gold Line to mars, via Ontario airport, would have go ... More >>

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