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Using Google Maps On Handheld Phone While Driving Ruled Illegal By Calif. Court

Yet another example of California's stupid texting-while-driving-related laws has reared its head this spring: A panel of judges ruled that using a handheld smartphone's GPS function while driving is against the law in this great state:

1 in 3 Pedestrians Text, Talk & Listen To Music On Smartphones While Crossing Street

We told you last week how nearly 1 in every 2 accidents in L.A. is a hit-and-run. Well, don't push your luck people. Research unveiled this week shows that 1 in 3 pedestrians are distracted by their cellphones and smartphones. Lord. Try to look out, people:

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Forget Texting While Driving; Some L.A. Motorcycle Cops Get Laptops

We love the double standards when it comes to law enforcement in L.A. Cops these days can get you for texting while driving (and L.A.'s Superior Court referees often back them no matter what) even though the law makes the infraction almost impossible to prove: " ..Selecting or entering a phone numb ... More >>

Teen Sexting: More Than 1 in 10 L.A. School District Kids Do It

Sexting is the new teen scourge, apparently. Yet another academic study has found that more than 1 in 10 teens have been sexting lately. This research, however, is local: 1839 students in the L.A. Unified School District were questioned about their texting. The results?

Completely Useless New California Law Says You Can Use Siri to Text While Driving

In a time-wasting attempt to earn back an ioda of public approval, California Governor Jerry Brown just OKed a new law that (sort of, not really) allows texting while driving. The law, proposed by L.A.-area Assemblyman Jeff Miller, says that you can now send and receive texts on the road -- as long ... More >>

Gordon Solomon, Inglewood Pastor, Allegedly Carried on Two-Year Sexual Relationship With 14-Year-Old

Update: To be clear, Solomon's victim was a a mere 12 years old when the alleged sexting/sexing began. That's CHILD status. More on his charges -- including "oral copulation" -- at the bottom. Originally posted at 9:45 a.m. A two-decade-old community church in Inglewood has been turned upside down ... More >>

1 in 4 Teens Sexting Nude Photos; Sexters More Likely to be Having Real Sex

Some research has shown that preteens are hitting puberty and younger and younger ages. It looks like technology is catching up with kids, or vice-versa: A new study finds that 1 out of 4 teenagers has texted or emailed nude pictures, and half have been asked for a naked photo. The study, publishe ... More >>

Texting While Driving Could be Federal Crime Soon

The federal government has been getting all up in your business lately. One federal whistle blower last year said he believes the National Security Agency is storing all our emails. You know, just in case. And President Obama recently flip-flopped on medical marijuana, saying flat out that pot busin ... More >>

Shawndeeia Bowen, Young Mom, Spotted Texting While Driving on 405 -- With Infant in Her Lap

On the third day of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the Torrance Police Department hit the distracted-driving jackpot. Not only do cops say that 29-year-old Hawthorne resident Shawndeeia Bowen was texting while driving on Tuesday afternoon, but she was allegedly doing so while carrying her baby ... More >>

Cellphone-Related Deaths Behind Wheel in California Down, Dubious Study Claims

While California's cop lobbyists and legislators have claimed texting-while-driving is creating more death than the Grim Reaper in order to justify increasingly needless laws, a new study says cellphone-related traffic deaths are going down. So which one is it? This is the classic strategy of over ... More >>

CHP to Crack Down on Eating, Applying Makeup While Driving (Not Just Cellphones)

The California Highway Patrol has had some trouble, in the past, explaining where the no-texting law ends and dialing a number into your phone (which is technically legal) begins. "When you look for loopholes, the whole issue of cellphone use, texting or distracted driving becomes confusing, if no ... More >>

Texting While Driving? Nationwide Ban on All Cellphone Use in Cars Proposed

​The National Transportation Safety Board wants to treat your car like an airplane. Basically, once you buckle up, it's time to shut off all electronic devices. That's the recommendation of the board today following its review of a summer 2010 Missouri highway crash that killed two and injure ... More >>

Texting Til Death: Half of Young Americans do it While Driving

amber10​We here at LA Weekly are a little sick of needless, nebulous state laws that give cops way too much power to conduct fund raising write tickets. Case-in-point: California's retarded texting-while-driving law which, apparently, has done nothing to deter texting-while-driving, but has ... More >>

Texting, Talking While Driving Your Biggest Peeves on The Road, Says California Survey

​That idiot with the cellphone to his ear slowly cutting across three lanes of traffic to make the turn he missed? Turns out you hate him as much as we do. California drivers named talking on cellphones one of the "biggest safety problems" they face on the road today. That's according to the ... More >>

iPhone's Siri, a Virtual Assistant, Could Get You a Ticket if You Follow Her Directions While Driving

Siri's a bad girl.​Cops in California say using iPhone's new personal assistant feature called Siri on the road could still get you a traffic ticket even though she works through voice commands. That's because if you touch your phone to, say, explore a map of directions she brought up for you ... More >>

Justin Bieber's Carmageddon Anti-Texting Campaign: "A Personal Goal of Mine"

This is a cause very close to my heart ​We knew Carmageddon was gonna be near-apocalyptic, but if even celebrities who never have to lay a finger on a steering wheel for the rest of their lives are getting involved, consider us very, very scared. Justin Bieber's lending his voice (just as lo ... More >>

Michael Molina, LAX Official Who Resigned After Sexting Controversy, Deleted Racy Messages on City Cellphone

CBS2Molina.​If you're a public official involved in a sexting scandal, be sure to delete the pornographic material -- before they catch you. Unfortunately for LAX executive Michael Molina, his data dump happened after he lost his job. He resigned in the wake of a CBS2 report earlier this mont ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Beware: Sexting is For Girls, According to Cal State Long Beach 'Sexuality & Culture' Study

RobW_​Looks like Anthony Weiner was tapping into a fertile new frontier. Turns out most of the sexters out there aren't pervs in congress. Rather they're ... women. So says a study from the journal Sexuality & Culture, which is put together out of Cal State Long Beach. After surveying 5,187 ... More >>

Michael Molina Resigns as LAX Executive After CBS2 Reveals Sexting Scandal

CBS2Michael Molina.​Anthony Weiner's not the only one who does it. In fact, about one in five Americans have sexted. And it appears that LAX executive Michael Molina did too. CBS2 found out about it, brought to the attention of LAX honcho Gina Marie Lindsay, and now Molina is out of there. ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Resigns: We Now Have Nothing to Write About

​If it wasn't here before, the era of the blogger as king-taker is upon us. After L.A. blogger Andrew Breitbart revealed that New York U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner was sexting and sending revealing photos to women who aren't his wife, the congressman resigned today, saying: Today I am announcing ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal Timeline in Haiku

​ Anthony Weiner proud of bulge. Blogger Andrew Breitbart exposes sexting scandal proudly. Weiner denies it at first.

Anthony Weiner Told Porn Star Ginger Lee About His Legislative 'Package,' Clearly Sought Her Advice on Particular Policy Matters

Ginger.​We're glad U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner hasn't resigned yet. We need to keep hearing about his package. In a somewhat ironic turn of events, a porn star took the podium today to point the finger at a congressman for being prurient. Nashville adult performer Ginger Lee, who's clearly done ... More >>

Sexting: About One in Five Americans Has Done it (Not Just Anthony Weiner)

KINGjeorge​Don't point the finger at Anthony Weiner, people. You do it to. At least some of you do. And you can't all be raging liberals. A new poll commissioned by the maker of Trojan condoms finds about one in five Americans "have engaged in sexting." Of course, that doesn't mean you shoul ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Sexted Underage Girl? Cops Are Looking Into Reported Twitter Relationship Between U.S. Rep And 17-Year-Old

debaird​This Weiner scandal has legs, and not the kind you want to see sexted to your iPhone, either. Cops today are reportedly investigating whether U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner communicated with an underage girl from Delaware as part of the Weinergate sexting scandal that erupted after L.A. blo ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Nude Penis Photo Makes the Rounds, Allegedly Via L.A. Blogger Andrew Breitbart (But it Could be a Hoax)

Weiner's head.​Update: Weiner seems to have admitted the photo is of his organ, via a spokeswoman, who says, " ... He has sent explicit photos." You knew that those boxer briefs could not contain the Twitter scandal, instigated by L.A. blogger Andrew Breitbart, that was set off by a non-nude ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Picks Best Sexting Partner Ever in Porn Star Ginger Lee: But She Could be His Biggest Problem

missgingerlee.comGinger Lee.​One of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner's alleged sexting pals is sometime porn star Ginger Lee, whom he reportedly tried to coach to lie about their relationship. The episode, revealed by TMZ, highlights the role of public relations in the business of your taxpayer-funde ... More >>

Security Guard Claims LA County Sheriff's Officer Choked Him After Trying to Report a Texting While Driving Crime

​Harold Shepard, a 49-year-old security guard at a federal building, was driving through Thousand Oaks on his way home after work when he noticed a nearby driver texting behind the wheel. Shepard had had a bad experience with a texter on the road once and wanted to report the chatty driver to the ... More >>

More SoCal Drivers Talk, Text on the Road Than Rest of U.S. -- But Central Californians Are the Worst

Paris: Public enemy No. 1​Confirmed: We gossipy, chronically plugged-in Southern Californians are pretty terrible about driving under the influence of smart phones. New numbers from March [big ugly HTML doc] show that 9.8 percent of SoCal drivers are tinkering with their handheld devices behi ... More >>

Texting While Driving in California is Illegal, But Nobody Seems to Know Exactly Where the Law Starts and Using Your Phone to Make a Call Begins

amber 10Don't do this. You could be pulled over.​When it is okay for drivers to punch in characters -- dial a phone number, say -- now that texting behind the wheel is illegal in California, which still happens to be the texting-while-driving capital of the nation? No one seems to know. And t ... More >>

Texting While Driving Could Get You Pulled Over And Ticketed: LAPD Mounts April Crackdown

amber10_79Don't do it.​You got away with it too long, L.A. Now the LAPD is on the war path for hardcore ... texters. That's right, this month the department is launching a crackdown on people who text and talk (headset to their ears) while they drive. We wish this was an April Fool's joke (l ... More >>

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