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DUI Checkpoints in Silver Lake & Beyond For Holiday Weekend

Summer's almost over, and we know you want to get your last kicks in. The LAPD, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and nearly 100 other local police agencies know this. So while you're enjoying the holiday weekend, they'll be working overtime looking to bust drunk drivers. They've been kind eno ... More >>

Teen Burglary Suspect Gets Stuck in North Hills Chimney

A teenager who might have been trying to burglarize a North Hills home got stuck in its chimney and had to scream for help, police said. It happened about 10:05 a.m. today, LAPD Sgt. Evy Arocho told the Weekly. The juvenile had to be rescued by the L.A. Fire Department, she said:

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Weekend DUI Checkpoints & Patrols in Westwood, Hollywood & Beyond

We've noted in the past that it seems, to us at least, that the LAPD likes to target minority areas when it sets up drunk-driver checkpoints. Downtown, Koreatown, Hollywood, the East Valley and South L.A. seem to be frequent targets. And the department was criticized for impounding the cars of illeg ... More >>

Columbus Street Gang in Valley Faces Crackdown

The Columbus Street gang has terrorized parts of the San Fernando Valley with murders, robberies and drug sales, authorities say. Now the L.A. City Attorney's office says it has a tool that will help cops put an end to the organization's reign in North Hills and Panorama City:

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Red-Car Flasher Suspect Luis Bucio-Cedeno Arrested In Valley

They got the "red-car flasher," cops say, but where's the red car? The smoking gun in the two-year-long case of dozens of indecent-exposure reports, a red Toyota Camry, was not with 24-year-old Luis Bucio-Cedeno when cops arrested him at his North Hills residence over the weekend. But they still t ... More >>

Architect Gerhard Becker Faces Manslaughter Charges After a Firefighter Died Trying to Save His Home

Letha Mae Montemayor: Child Porn Produced In San Fernando Valley; Suspect Arrested

Updated at the bottom with a suspect's ID. Headline has changed. First posted at 6:03 a.m. Thursday The U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles says federal authorities are looking for a man and woman seen molesting children in child porn allegedly produced in the San Fernando Valley. A press confer ... More >>

Jason Paul Ramirez Robbed Own Grandpa, Resisted SWAT Confrontation, LAPD Says

Cops today said 27-year-old Jason Paul Ramirez robbed his own grandfather more than once and then holed up in the North Hills Budget Inn Motel when officers came to get him. It all started about 7:45 a.m. today in the 9100 block of Sepulveda Boulevard, LAPD Officer Richard French told the Weekly:

Hipsters Beware: DUI Checkpoint in Silver Lake Tonight

The last full weekend of summer is upon us. Get that last celebration of warmth in before the Santa Ana winds blow even more hot weather on you for fall. And be safe. The LAPD is targeting you hipsters in Silver Lake as well as drivers in North Hills with its weekly DUI check points. Here's your L ... More >>

DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet For July 20 Weekend: Look Out, Black L.A.

We like to point out that the LAPD's DUI checkpoints are often set up in minority areas. Immigrants' rights activists have even accused the department of targeting Latino communities because so many undocumenteds don't have licenses, and their cars are easy pickin's for money making impounds. Well ... More >>

L.A. Fire Department Posts Gruesome Photos of Train vs. Benz Crash in Downtown L.A.

One week after the controversial media blackout on L.A. Fire Department response times and addresses -- ordered by Fire Chief Brian Cummings -- is the department overcompensating for its much-ridiculed secrecy? LAFD photographers Rick McClure and Mike Meadows snapped some insane photos of a train v ... More >>

Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend DUI Checkpoints in L.A: Happy Turkey Day (Now Put Your Hands Behind Your Back)

Try not to get too stuffed on beer this Thanksgiving weekend. Because, despite the holiday cheer, cops will be looking for you if you get behind the wheel. If the pilgrims and colonizers were around today they'd be greeted with handcuffs and huge fines (America's settlers apparently loved brew). Go ... More >>

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Tagger Accomplice Shot And Wounded a Teenager Who Confronted Them: LAPD Releases Video to Ferret Out Suspects

LAPD​Confronting taggers is a deadly business in L.A. There are countless stories of people getting shot and killed. So we would strongly recommend that you not try this at home. While taggers used to be pee-wees just trying to get their names "up," seems like more and more that they're harde ... More >>

Interview: Dawes Brings It All Back Home

Dawes: The boys are back in town​ Most bands might take pains to avoid having their new record described as "something my dad would like." But when it comes to L.A.'s own Dawes, who play a homecoming show Saturday at the Orpheum, they totally dig it. "I guess we do draw kind of an older crow ... More >>

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Cat Hoarder Suspect James Howard Kept More Than 100 Felines in And Around His North Hills Motor Home, Authorities Say

FoxAuthorities say an alleged North Hills cat lady was actually a man.​We love when people prove stereotypes wrong. Like this guy, James Howard, who was charged this week with multiple criminal counts related to his alleged cat hoarder. You thought all cat hoarders were crazy old ladies livin ... More >>

National Children's Study Seeks to Change Lives, But Will L.A. Politicians Take Notice?

Ted SoquiApartment building near a freeway in L.A.'s east side​Dr. Calvin Hobel, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, believes the National Children's Study has the opportunity to change lives. "If we can begin to improve pregnancy outcome," Hobel tells L.A. Weekly, e ... More >>

Alleged Marijuana Growers in L.A.'s Valley Targeted by DEA, FBI Raids

Law enforcement fanned out across the Valley today to bust alleged weed growers.​Updated after the jump with details on what was seized and where. Looks like the long arm of the law fanned out across the San Fernando Valley and Palmdale today to raid alleged pot-growing operations. The Los A ... More >>

Britney Spears, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Nolte Invoked For Movie Investment Scam, Feds Allege

Britney was used.​In a town for where handshakes and words often suffice for written contracts, it's easy to see how an alleged scam like this could go down. Two L.A. area men were arrested today on suspicion of running a "boiler room" operation that raised $300,000 for films that weren't pro ... More >>

LAPD Brings You The Gift Of 10 -- Count 'Em, 10 -- DUI Checkpoints This Weekend

daytondui.comCheck yourself before LAPD wrecks yourself.​Updated after the jump with new location. First posted at 12:05 p.m. Thursday. This weekend the LAPD is going to be on you like orange on Snooki. Seriously. And the DUI is a gift that keeps on giving -- fines, attorney's fees, communit ... More >>

Man, Possibly Mentally Ill, Dies After L.A. Police Open Fire In North Hills

​A man died Thursday after he was shot by Los Angeles police in North Hills, authorities said. The deceased, described as someone in his 20s, might have been mentally ill. Officers were called to the area of Burnet Avenue near Roscoe Boulevard and opened fire about 12:30 p.m., said Officer Ap ... More >>

The Pot Shop Boys

Returning with a new album, Cypress Hill discusses legalization, where you can get the best strains, and how great it feels to work for a stoner boss

Murder Was the Case: LA Homicide No. 280, Victim Identified in North Hills West Shooting

A man fatally shot in North Hills West area on November 28 has been identified as 29-year-old Larry Duran Jr. The shooting occurred in the 9100 block of Woodley Avenue at 1:26 pm. View Larger Map According to Officer Gregory Baek of LAPD Media Relations, a witness close to the area heard sever ... More >>

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Where to Eat Now

Streets of Intervention

William “Blinky” Rodriguez

Driving in Utopia

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Beyond 30-second spots

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The Day-Glo Effect

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10 Going on 16

Toppling Pyramids

An open-and-shut case for change at the LAPD

Burning Love

System of a Down in a toxic new world

East of the Sun, West of the 110

The politics of the big move

Yayo Lives

The return of Dos Arbolitos

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Ganging Up Against Injunctions

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