SUVs and Crossovers

Corey Delaine Stewart: Cops Say Suspect Had SUV Rigged For Rape, Used It

Cops say they've arrested a man wanted in connection with a super-creepy rape in which a vehicle rigged with a passenger door that could not be opened was used in an attack on a woman contacted through a social networking site. Corey Delaine Stewart has been charged in connection with the rape, Gar ... More >>

Ammar Harris' ID'd In Vegas Strip Shooting; Cops Say He's Armed & Dangerous

See also: Crazy Vegas Strip Car-To-Car Shooting Involving Maserati Ends With 3 Dead. Las Vegas police tonight said a man who lives only a mile from Thursday's horrific car-to-car shooting on the Strip is the suspect in the attack. Cops identified Ammar Harris, 26, as a suspect at-large: They said ... More >>

Brad Sherman Faults Howard Berman For Personal Use Of Taxpayer-Funded SUV; Berman Admits Oversight, Reimburses $9.50

The Congressional battle between Howard Berman and Brad Sherman was never all that substantive to begin with -- they agree on most things -- but lately it's taken a turn for the trivial. Last week, Berman slammed Sherman for pocketing $460,000 in interest payments on loans he made to his campaign.Sh ... More >>

Cassette Tapes Are Awesome Until You Actually Have To Listen To Them

See also: Here Are the Songs They Play at a Middle School Dance About a decade ago I crashed my car. Bad. I still remember it pretty clearly. I had a bad haircut and was driving on the feeder next to a highway and listening to music (maybe Missy Elliott's "Work It" or maybe Jimmy Eat World's "The ... More >>

Grandson Shot Trying to Save Grandpa During North Hollywood Robbery, LAPD Says

Updated at the bottom with two suspects arrested. The story changed after our first report (the victim was the grandson, not son), and our headline changed soon after to reflect that. First posted at 6:05 a.m. Jan. 10. A man was killed when he tried to defend his father during a robbery in North Ho ... More >>

Ashes of Late Relative Stolen From GMC Yukon Parked at Westfield Mall in Woodland Hills: LAPD in Search of Geniuses

GMC.comA GMC Yukon.​Thieves in Woodland Hills broke into a pretty nice ride, a GMC Yukon, and took three bags. Sounds promising if you're a street cretin. Big problem, though, as one of the bags contained the cremated remains of a loved one. Now cops citywide are looking for these dumb asses ... More >>

'Hey @NBCLA I Think Your News Van is on Fire!'

Andrew Veis via Twitter​Bummer when you work in the news business and you become a headline. But such was the case for NBC Los Angeles today when one its "news vans" caught on fire at the side of the 405 in the Sepulveda Pass, prompting, you guessed it, the rest of the journalistic twitterver ... More >>

Mayra Martinez, 17, Abducted in South L.A., Authorities Say: Amber Alert Issued For Suspect Rafael Ibarra

Mayra Martinez.​Update: Sheriff's officials said today she was found safe in the city of Bell late "last night," and that Ibarra was taken into custody. Authorities say 17-year-old Mayra Martinez was "taken by force" from South L.A. today, and tonight they issued an amber alert for the man th ... More >>

Stolen SUV Turned Clown Car: 7 Women, 1 Man Detained in Freeway LAPD Chase

KTLAThe Big Eight​There was a bona fide party on the 110 South this chilly morning, when an SUV with stolen plates was pulled over after an LAPD chase on the 5 from Burbank. Guess who tumbled out?

"I'm Not a Thug," Says the Man Who Would Be D.A.

How to Pay Off Your Parking Tickets And Get Your Car Towed in L.A. Anyway: A True Story

The victim: A 2008 Toyota Highlander.​Question: When is it okay for authorities to have your car towed even after you've paid all your parking tickets. Answer: Pretty much any day in L.A. (Yay). It actually happened last week to Angeleno Chris Fitts, who told the Weekly he paid off all his p ... More >>

Drive-By Paintball Gang Launches Yellow 'Shooting Spree' on Unsuspecting Pedestrians in Burbank

Creative NerdsPaintballs to the face in Burbank​The neighborhood hooligans must have been getting restless out in Burbank last week. In a span of two days, they launched a whopping 11 paintball-gun attacks on innocent sidewalk people in the Hillside and Valley areas of the suburban city [Burba ... More >>

Hot Chicks Don't Get Tix? Mercedes Driven By Moms Top List Of Most-Ticketed Cars

imagevenue.comIf memory serves, this is Britney Spears famously stepping out of a Paris Hilton's Mercedes SL -- and into the Brazil-wax hall of fame.​Hot chicks don't get tix, right? Maybe. Jerks in douche-mobiles (the always-leased Audi A4, the self-important Mini or the self-righteous Prius) ... More >>

Northbound 405 Reopened After CHP Officer Struck On Freeway

​The northbound 405 at National Boulevard in West Los Angeles was reopened Wednesday afternoon following a collision that critically injured a California Highway Patrol officer. The lanes were reopened at 4:45 p.m., authorities said. The freeway was closed in both directions for two hours foll ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Gets Alcohol-Monitoring Bracelet

​After flying into Los Angeles from France over the weekend actress Lindsay Lohan showed up for court Monday morning, where a judge slapped her with a bracelet that monitors alcohol use and mandated that she drink no booze and submit to weekly drug tests. Lohan was late to her Beverly Hills S ... More >>

Toyota Suffers Another Blow As SUV Deemed A 'Safety Risk'

ToyotaLexus GX in L.A.​Toyota's having a bad 2010. A week after learning that 200 lawsuits over so-called "sudden acceleration" and other alleged Toyota defects would be heard here in Los Angeles, the carmaker's North American leaders in Torrance woke up to the headline that Consumer Reports m ... More >>

Toyota Suspends Sales Of SUV That Failed 'Consumer Reports' Test

Toyota​Toyota late Tuesday announced it was suspending sales of its 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV after Consumer Reports magazine reported it was prone to rolling over and declared the vehicle a "Don't Buy: Safety Risk." "We are taking the situation with the GX 460 very seriously and are determined t ... More >>

The Price of Shooting Stars

Man Turns In 58 Guns; Has 99 Problems But A Snitch Ain't One

KTLA News​A mystery man turned in 58 guns, including 14 rifles, some of them assault-type weapons, to a "gifts for guns" exchange in Compton Tuesday. The scene was witnessed by KTLA News, but the man did not want to speak on-camera. The exchange, run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depart ... More >>

USC Football Player Spotted Driving Businessman's SUV

USCJoe McKnight.​Joe McKnight, a star tailback at USC, has been driving an SUV owned by a Santa Monica businessman, an arrangement that would be against NCAA rules, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper states that a reporter has seen the player behind the wheel at least once, and that the ... More >>

Commenter Denies USC Player Was Provided SUV

USCJoe McKnight.​A commenter who says he's the Santa Monica businessman who registered an SUV that the Los Angeles Times reports has been driven by USC star tailback Joe McKnight denied providing the vehicle the player in a post responding to to LA Weekly's own item on the matter Saturday. T ... More >>

Tiger: I Did Have Sex With That Woman ... Or Something Like That

Jaimee Grubbs​As a Los Angeles reality show hopeful revealed voice-mail left by Tiger Woods as proof of their affair, the golf legend finally came clean Wednesday, stating on his site, "I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart." Jaimee Grubs told Us Wee ... More >>

Shriver-gate: Maria Apologizes

California First Lady Maria Shriver apologized after paparazzi snapped her driving while talking on a mobile phone, sans hands-free device. Husband and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger championed the state's "hands-free law," which mandates that drivers must use hands-free devices such as Bluetooth he ... More >>

Billy Cottrell's SUV-Arson Conviction May Be Vacated

Billy Cottrell in 2003​The L.A. Times is reporting that the U.S. Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an opinion, still unpublished, that may vacate the 2005 conviction of Billy Cottrell, the brilliant Caltech math instructor convicted of vandalism and arson charges in the 2003 attacks ... More >>