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Filthy Peanut Butter Plant Gets Preliminary OK to Reopen

Remember that filthy peanut butter factory that the feds shut down last month? You know, the one responsible for the massive peanut butter recall that sickened at least 42 people in 20 states and eventually expanded to nearly 300 different nut and seed products the company produced? Every single pro ... More >>

Peanut Butter Recall Expands to Just About Everything

The peanut butter recall that began innocently enough with one Trader Joe's brand has expanded exponentially and now includes everything from crackers and cookies to gelato and tahini, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Almost 300 products have now been recalled in what the FDA is callin ... More >>

Michelle Jordan: LAPD Take Down of Woman in Foothill Area Caught on Video

We changed the headline after finding out more, with additional details, including video and the woman's ID, at the bottom. First posted at 7:34 p.m. Police tonight said they're investigating a videotaped beat-down "use of force" by two LAPD cops in its San Fernando Valley Foothill Divison. The of ... More >>

The Dirty Projectors' David Longstreth on Wearing a Haz-Mat Suit in the Largest Landfill in the Country

To listen to Swing Lo Magellan is to hear David Longstreth holding something back. Released on July 10 on Domino Records, Magellan is the seventh full-length album Longstreth has recorded as the Dirty Projectors, and the third since 2007's Rise Above, an idiosyncratic interpretation of a Black Fla ... More >>

Baby Mountain Lion Killed by Santa Monica Cops After Wandering Into 2nd Street Courtyard

Updated at the bottom with a photo of the poor thing before it died. News helicopters swarmed above a glass business courtyard on Santa Monica's swanky 2nd Street all morning -- visible from rush hour on the PCH -- as Santa Monica police worked with Department of Fish and Game officials to round up ... More >>

The Original Food Trucks

Loncheras are riding the food truck tidal wave

Why Did the Department of Fish and Game Kill an 80-Pound Mountain Lion in Sunland?

An officer-involved shooting in Sunland last Friday afternoon -- between a warden and a young male mountain lion -- has L.A. animal advocates calling for justice. According to Department of Fish and Game (DFG) spokesman Andrew Hughan, a resident of the foothills near the Angeles National Forest cal ... More >>

Vigen Sarkisyan, 18, Killed When Car Plunges 500 Feet off Angeles Crest Highway

Corrected at the bottom: There was apparently no car involved in the plunge. An 18-year-old from Sunland-Tujunga, a small mountain community in northeast Los Angeles, died in a tragic Sunday-afternoon accident off Angeles Crest Highway. Vigen Sarkisyan was in a car with two of his friends when it ... More >>

Rocio's Mole De Los Dioses: Now Open in Sun Valley

Just a couple of months after opening up her own first restaurant, Rocio Camacho, the J. Gold approved Mole'ra formerly of Mole's La Tia and La Huasteca, has opened up a second locale. The Sun Valley extension of Rocio's Mole De Los Dioses officially opened last Saturday, Jan. 14 in a strip mall ne ... More >>

L.A. Arson Fires: Suspect Under Arrest, LAFD Says

Updated at the bottom with an official arrest (the third since Thursday). Fire officials now count 53 blazes in the arson spree. First posted at 2:48 a.m. Monday. The L.A. arson fires have sated the city's everlasting expectation for the criminally bizarre, but so far there's no Michael Connelly en ... More >>

Harry Burkhart, L.A. Arson Fires Suspect From Germany, Says 'I Hate America'

See our report about Burkhart's mother being linked to an erotic massage business here. First posted at 7:59 p.m. Monday The man who terrorized L.A. for three nights with a series of 53 arson fires turned out to be a 24-year-old from Germany identified as Harry Burkhart, at least according to autho ... More >>

Hollywood Fires Sparked Along Sunset Boulevard at Least Four Times: Suspect Samuel Arrington Arrested

Cops say a man went on an arson spree along and around Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood early today. He allegedly set at least four fires before he was nabbed by a good Samaritan and held for police, authorities said. It all appeared to start ...

Los Angeles Spring Storm Fells Trees, Floods Streets, Darkens Homes

MuscleNerdTree down in L.A.​Update: PCH was reopened, and so was the Grapevine. Record rainfall was recorded around Southern California, with downtown Los Angeles seeing 2.42 inches Sunday compared with 1.48 inches on the date in 1943. See more records after the jump. The first week of spring ... More >>

L.A. Resident Fatally Shoots Man for Allegedly Stealing Gas From His Car

blitzusa.comDeadly gas syphoning in the San Fernando Valley​Soaring SoCal gas prices have us all a little on edge -- but for one suspected gas thief in the Valley this morning, the recession tension turned fatal. The man was lurking outside a home on the 10200 block of Sunland Boulevard at ar ... More >>

Libraries Can't Be Used As Cooling Centers Sunday -- Budget Cuts Are Closing Them

​ So the city sends out a press release today with a heat wave notice, warning residents of temperatures downtown in the mid 90s, up to 106 in the valley and up to 110 in the mountains. (Given that we were told that East Coast snowstorms "proved" global warming is a myth earlier this year by ... More >>

PEE-WEE'S BIG ANNOYANCE

Today In WTF: L.A. Tornado Warning Issued (UPDATED

​A tornado warning for south central Los Angeles County has been canceled Tuesday afternoon, but another was issued for southeastern Orange County, southwester Riverside County and northwestern San Diego County. This as the second of three successive winter storms hit the Southland Tuesday. T ... More >>

L.A. Council Rejects Home Buffer Zone For Pot Shops

​Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>

L.A.'s Top Political Stories Of 2009 Listed: Not A Good Year For City Hall

Blaze of glory: The Station Fire.​The blog Griffith Park Wayist has its take on the top 10 political stories in the city of Los Angeles for the year, and by the looks of it 2009 wasn't City Hall's best year. There was a mayor who let the governor's race pass him by, the council that found dist ... More >>

When Claiming Disability, Try Not To Appear On TV ... Working

A Sunland interior designer plead guilty to two counts of fraud this week after he had claimed disability to the tune of more than $147,000 and an insurance company worker happened to catch the man on television -- working.​ Ronald E. Hunt, 56 continued working as a designer even as he claime ... More >>

Did Feds Cause the Station-fire Disaster

Ugly allegations that fire officials reduced air support, tankers and backup crews

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 205, Victim Identified in Sunland Attack

A man who was killed August 18 at his Sunland home has been identified as 32-year-old Christobal Lira. View Larger MapAccording to police reports, Lira was attacked at his home around 10 pm in the 9700 block of Sunland Boulevard, near Wheatland Avenue. Police believe Lira may have interrupted a burg ... More >>

Replacing Wendy Greuel in the Valley

A juicy $2.5 million City Council seat opens in anti-Villaraigosa territory

It's Only Rock and Roll but I Like It: Music as a Soundtrack to Life

Music is exceptionally - my wife may say irrationally - important to me. I can walk into a store, determined to spend hundreds of dollars, only to turn around and walk right back out if something horrible is playing inside. Music has never been disposable background noise; it's defined me, inspired ... More >>

Time Does Steve Yagman

Cops have a "tailgate party" as the controversial civil rights attorney faces prison

Double-Cross at the WGA

If you write for TV or film in Hollywood, your check might never be in the mail

Prospecting for Beauty

Treasure map to the best park bench in Southern California

Behind the Garb

The 99-cent costume crew

Taking Down the Vineland Boyz

Another Valley raid targets gang named in two cop killings

Avenues of Death

How Highland Park’s Latino gang targets African-Americans

Bad Night for the Vineland Boyz

Huge raid could be a mortal blow to notorious Valley gang

The Death Squads

When dying is downright dirty, these guys clean up the mess

Happy Balloons and Homicide

Entering the dangerous world of flier parties

The Battle for Tujunga

Wendy and Tony battle to fill the shoes of Wachs

Wendy Greuel for City Council

The Weekly’s recommendation in the December 11 special election in the 2nd District

Power Ranger

DWP chief plans to hitch horses, 'pull this wagon out'

Letters

Us and Them

The Code of the Cop Bar

The Sitting Cathode-Ray Tube Blues

Letters