Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation

A vial of freedom-loving blood said to have belonged to late President Ronald Reagan was put up for auction this week, and the Simi Valley-based Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation (host of his library) was none too happy.

While the anti-communist blood was said to have been legally obtained by a woman who worked at a Maryland lab contracted to take the sample following the 1981 assassination attempt on him, the foundation says it will fight the sale.

In a statement sent to the Weekly and other outlets, foundation executive director John Heubusch says:

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Chester Paul Sgroi

Updated at the bottom with a suspect arrested and ID'd. The victim was also identified. First posted at 7:04 a.m.

One of the most bizarre homicides in West Hollywood history went down yesterday morning as a passenger allegedly opened fire on a Metro bus driver not far from the city's sheriff's station.

A suspect was spotted coming out of one of the bus' windows and, according to Fox 11 News, he waited around to be arrested.

It all happened ...

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Kevin Scanlon

* Update, May 16, 10:30 a.m.: Pacquiao's original interviewer, Granville Ampong, is now saying that he himself quoted Leviticus 20:13 in his article -- so the words "put to death" never came out of Pacquiao's mouth. And the boxer tells ABS-CBN that "I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God... I didn't know that quote from Leviticus because I haven't read the Book of Leviticus yet." For further explanation, see "The Manny Pacquiao Misquote: A Timeline."

Update: Manny Pacquiao Barred From 'Extra' Interview at the Grove After Bashing Gay Marriage

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Lina Lecaro

Gov. Jerry Brown says there are $8 billion worth of cuts coming to state programs this summer, and that's not even enough to fill the $16 billion sinkhole California faces July 1.

One enterprising legislator has a wild idea, though: Tax strip club patrons $10 each time they enter an exotic dancing establishment. Damn. Talk about your cover charge.

Assemblyman Das Williams of Oxnard plans to tax you like a gangster taxes drug dealers:

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The parking nazis have come to Santa Monica: No free minutes for you!

New sensors that begin working today will cut meters' paid time down to zero once a space is empty, even if the woman who parked in a spot before you paid for way more time than she used.

Yep. According to a city of Santa Monica statement:

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Updated at the bottom: Octomom might be safe for now because at least one Mexican medical authority is calling fraud on Karla. First posted at 2:12 p.m.

Poor Octomom. We got word last night that her house might be auctioned off because payments on it haven't been up-to-date (although her lawyer disputes the notion of an imminent sale). She was visited this week by child welfare authorities. And her recent semi-nude pics for a European magazine were not exactly met with male salivation.

And now this:

A woman in Mexico might replace the La Habra resident as the Most Fertile Woman in the World:

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Councilman Huizar has no idea what we're talking about.

Could the L.A. City Council be any more out-of-touch with its half-lidded constituents this fine 4/20?

In a move reminiscent of Invisible Children declaring April 20, 2012 "Kony Day" (the looney Evangelical charity apparently expects us to do activism and stuff while stoned), councilmembers are choosing to blissfully ignore the thick blanket of smoke covering Los Angeles and instead celebrate "Dia de Siqueiros" today.

What the F is a Siqueiros, you ask?

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Przemek Siemion

Bicycle rights advocates, ever a vocal and Portlandia-esque bunch, have made a lot of wind over alleged cases of motorists' hit-and-run collisions against their ilk.

Often their argument is that local police don't investigate the crashes as they would a car-on-car accident because the whole world, of course, is allied against them.

Well, the victim has become the teacher because ...

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A 10-year Marine Corps veteran based in Southern California was under fire this week after he compared Trayvon Martin and his blackness to his practice targets on the range.

Yep.

Staff Sgt. Suneel Mehta was apparently just finished with target practice last week at a range on base in Twentynine Palms when he tweeted this:

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LAPD

Turegano.

Wow. Either this guy has balls of titanium or -- hear us out now -- he's innocent?

Cops this week said that after being arrested for allegedly impersonating a cop and robbing people, 42-year-old George Turegano of Fontana was jailed, bailed out and ... did it again!

The LAPD says he was arrested earlier this month for his latest alleged caper, but now, given the brass involved here, they want to know if maybe the suspect did this on occasions they don't know about:

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sherdog.com

The Noodle.

Employees who have filed for worker's compensation sometimes get busted by doing stupid things like skipping, jogging and engaging in horseplay while they're supposed to be sidelined by serious injury.

But, if true, this worker's comp claimant takes the cake:

Prosecutors say that laid-up L.A. city firefighter Rafael Davis was caught moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter, under the name "The Noodle:"

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L.A. County

Updated at the bottom with the kid's age and an explanation from the County about why the photo was distributed.

We're not sure what's worse -- that a bat-wielding boy allegedly beat to death three kittens or that the county Department of Animal Care and Control just sent out a photo of said cat corpses (after the jump).

Animal control officials say they were alerted to the beating March 7 after a Wilson High School employee said the student was heard on campus confessing to the attack.

Officers went to his home in the 15900 block of Leander Drive in Hacienda Heights and ...

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With permission from Lalo Alcaraz

We once said that Patch, that national network of "hyperlocal" news you can snooze to, just doesn't get it. And this completely proves our point.

The ex-editor of Brentwood Patch today published the story of how he was fired last year for running a cartoon that the company's New York editors found objectionable and possibly racist. The cartoon by longtime Chicano artist and former LA Weekly regular Lalo Alcaraz came with the headline:

"It's Cinco de Mayo - do you know where your gardener is?"

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Simon Willison

You know guys, there's no such thing as generic Viagra. And "herbal" Viagra? That's just shite.

Shysters out there are taking advantage of the fact that you're too chicken to go to a doctor for 10 minutes and explain that you have boner problems (or that you're a porn star).

So they sell some fake blue pills on Craigslist that lighten your wallet and do absolutely nothing for your, uh, stamina:

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mirvettium

You big government haters out there think you've heard it all (the legend of the $640 Air Force toilet seat, et. al.), but you haven't seen nothin' yet.

Turns out that, as a result of federal regulations, L.A. County sends more than 1 million pieces of mail each year ... to itself.

You heard that right:

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TheBaustin

[Added at 11:23 a.m. Monday]: It happened outside the Tower of Terror ride at Disney's California Adventure park adjacent to Disneyland.

California's pepper spray zeitgeist continued well into 2012 as Disneyland guest Glenn L. Horlacher, 53, was given a good dousing of the spicy tearjerker in a fight with what seemed to be an older security guard at the Anaheim theme park. And it was all caught on video (posted below with NSFW profanity).

The security guard appeared to be mostly alone for much of three minutes in a mano-a-mano confrontation with a park guest who seemed to have punched and kicked him.

Bystanders yelled at Horlacher as he ...

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Quinn Dombrowski

Updated at the bottom with some gory details. First posted at 5:01 p.m. Wednesday.

In today's edition of WTF, we bring you one Jason Wilmert.

Authorities allege the 35-year-old was nourishing himself with dead stray cats. Not only that, but reports indicate he might have even killed and skinned the cats for his daily meals.

We don't make this stuff up:

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Craig Bennett

You think times are hard?

Try being an average-salaried Department of Water and Power worker, who takes home $96,805 a year of public money, according to a recent analysis by Bloomberg. Can you even, like sustain a Whole Foods-stocked pantry on that kind of money? Really, that's barely enough to handle monthly Prius payments for two.

Good think the L.A. City Council just approved a water rate increase:

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KTLA News

Updated at the bottom: It's over. First posted at 11:46 a.m.

Another day, another crazy guy perched high in the sky.

Following yesterday's fun with a naked man who climbed atop a radio tower behind a city building downtown, a car-theft suspect this morning hopped atop a roof in Westwood and remained in a standof with cops as five news helicopters hovered above.

This one started when ...

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MSN Video

The recipients of a baby boy.

A woman handed off her infant to a homeless couple in the Old Bank District downtown in the middle of the night and ran off, cops say.

Now the mom, identified as 21-year-old Jennifer Maria Edwards, is being accused of child endangerment. L.A. police say she was tracked down, arrested and booked.

Here's what allegedly happened:

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