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A nearly 100-year-old bicycle said to be quite valuable and rare was stolen from its owner's home in Lancaster, authorities said.

The red Indian Deluxe, which looks like Pee-wee Herman's dream ride, was made between 1914 and 1917, according to sheriff's officials:

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Bryan Shaw (r.) allegedly slips Scott London (l.) $5,000, across from Franklin True Value Hardware in Woodland Hills.

In exchange for confidential information worth of millions of dollars to him, well-to-do Encino diamond jeweler Bryan Shaw admits, he gave his tipster at KPMG a $12,000 Rolex Daytona Cosmograph watch.

Shaw, of Shaw Diamond Co. located in a high-rise on Ventura Boulevard, pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges for making illegal stock trades based on alleged advice from Scott London. London, also a wealthy guy, was fired by KPMG -- one of the world's Big Four auditing firms -- on April 5, the day he got arrested by the feds.

The behavior of these two men who had everything -- and now, it seems, have nothing -- goes beyond just money business.

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File photo of B of A downtown by ricardodiaz11 for the LA Weekly Flickr pool.

It was pretty clear from the get-go that the wild robbery last summer of an East L.A. Bank of America involving an assistant branch manager outfitted with a fake bomb might have been an inside job.

Said manager was not charged, but three others, including her boyfriend, were, the FBI announced today:

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Updated at the bottom with the suspect's ID and the end of evacuations. First posted at 1:45 p.m.

A traffic stop in Marina del Rey led police to a stash of explosive devices at a suspect's apartment near Culver City today, prompting evacuations and a traffic mess on the Westside.

Overland Avenue between Venice and Washington boulevards was shut down this afternoon and likely would be "for hours" as a bomb squad went through the residence on the Palms side of the street in the 3800 block of Overland, police told us:

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Cops are on the lookout for two or three robbers who have targeted joggers around the Silver Lake Reservoir in recent weeks.

So far the LAPD has only recorded two such crimes, including one last week, but the M.O.s are similar and there's no telling if the suspects will attack again:

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On Mother's Day L.A. sheriff's officials announced that a 21-year-old Whittier father was arrested on suspicion of murdering his 6-month-old baby girl.

The suspect, Eduardo Orozco, was arrested over the weekend after the baby "suffered blunt force injuries," according to a sheriff's statement:

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Updated at the bottom: An arrest has been made. First posted at 3:17 p.m. Friday.

Three men were killed and another was wounded in an early morning shooting in Harbor Gateway.

Officers responding to an "unknown disturbance" at an apartment building in the 1600 block of West 205th Street immediately discovered two dead men in or near the building, including one in a stairwell, LAPD Officer Cleon Joseph told us.

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The area where the body was found via Google Maps.

Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of 42-year-old Long Beach man Christopher Waters, whose body was found April 23 in a burned out SUV in Rancho Palos Verdes.

The second of the two suspects, 18-year-old Jose Angel Martinez of Compton, was arrested Wednesday, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department stated:

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Cops are spread thin in this country-sized city of nearly 500 square miles. Call one and she might come -- if you have a serious emergency.

But in the San Fernando Valley, LAPD has found the cash to put police to good use dealing with the scourge known around the Southland as ... teen house parties:

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The $1 million reward for the capture and conviction of Christopher Dorner went to four people, including a couple that was tied up in their cabin by Dorner (James and Karen Reynolds will get 80 percent), the ski resort employee who spotted his burning truck in the mountains, and a Corona tow-truck driver who spotted the suspect in Riverside County.

Missing from that list was Richard Heltebrake, whose story was almost as scary as that of the tied-up couple:

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If you've been around L.A. clubland you know that Zanzibar in Santa Monica is one of the more mellow, musically inclined venues around. You can leave aggro at the door.

One guy apparently missed that memo, however, and now Santa Monica cops want to talk to him regarding allegations of assault and causing serious bodily injury -- all resulting from what police believe was a sucker punch on the dance floor. #Winning:

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Mercedes ML Class SUV.

See also: Luxury Car Hit-And-Run Drivers Running Rampant in L.A.

Cops are looking for the driver in the latest in a string of hit-and-runs involving luxury vehicles in Los Angeles.

This one was fatal, ultimately killing bicyclist David Alexander Grandados after he peddled near Oxnard Street and Bellaire Avenue in Valley Village on Sunday, March 24.

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Gunfire broke out at a Hollywood club early today, critically injuring a man in his 20s, police said.

It happened about 1 a.m. inside My Studio, 6623 Hollywood Blvd., an LAPD sergeant told the Weekly:

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Recently broadcast dash-cam video (after the jump) of an explosive clash between drivers on the Las Vegas Strip that ended with three dead could shed new light on a case that reached all the way to Los Angeles.

Ammar Harris, a self-described pimp who police said was behind the wheel of a Range Rover when he opened fire on a man in a Maserati Feb. 21, was indicted in the case over the weekend:

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You're a UCLA chemistry professor and a fire breaks out in your lab.

A 23-year-old staff research assistant who's handling highly flammable liquid is burned and ultimately dies. Are you responsible for the workplace conditions that led to her death? An L.A. Superior Court judge today said let's find out:

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LAPD

Tobias Summers, the gang member wanted in the horrific abduction of a 10-year-old Northridge girl, was captured in Mexico this morning, officials said.

After getting nowhere by waiting him out, Mexican authorities yesterday launched a campaign to plaster his mug in public. It worked:

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Updated at the bottom with the suspect charged today with capital murder. Prosecutors claim he was "lying in wait." First posted at 7:07 a.m.

A man set on fire in front of Long Beach 7-Eleven has died, Long Beach police announced.

The horrific attack, allegedly by a homeless man, was captured on the store's security video, and the subsequent blaze was also videotaped:

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It's not the first time this has happened. An L.A. County Sheriff's deputy even smuggled drugs into the jail using a burrito as cover (it didn't work).

Today prosecutors alleged that attorney Stephen Beecher tried to smuggle heroin via a greeting card intended for a client behind bars at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic. No go:

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The man who paraded around the nation as Clark Rockefeller but was really, as one witness said, just a "creepy" guy, was convicted today of murder.

Christian K. Gerhartsreiter, 52, was nailed for the 1985 murder of 27-year-old John Sohus, a San Marino man nice enough to give the poseur a place to stay back then.

Prosecutors believe he killed Sohus' wife too, but ...

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ABC Eyewitness News

What would you do if your 1973 Volkswagen Beetle was stolen? Most of you would say, Thank the Lord for this blessing and buy better transportation -- a bicycle, perhaps.

But understand this: 41-year-old Angeleno Jason Torchinsky, a contributor to the mega-car-guy blog Jalopnik, had this black-striped yellow bug since he was 18. This was more than a wannabe Porsche that floats. This was a soul mate. And so ...

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