Cop's Job Application Lands Him In Jail For Murder; ​​Baby Whale Stuns Beachgoers: Today Around Venice-Mar Vista

LOS ANGELES, CA — Here are the Los Angeles and Orange County Patch stories people are talking about today:

• Baby Gray Whale Stuns Laguna Beachgoers A baby gray whale stunned beachgoers this week when it made an appearance in front of the Montage resort property.
• Cop's Job Application Lands Him In Jail For Hollywood Murder A federal officer's police department application ultimately led to his arrest and conviction for a 1987 carjacking murder in Hollywood.
• NBA Star Zach Randolph, Who Makes $24M, Busted For Allegedly Selling Pot Zach Randolph, a Sacramento Kings forward and former Clipper, has been arrested on suspicion of drug dealing at a Watts housing project.
• Suge Knight Caught On Tape Plotting To Bribe Witnesses, Prosecutors Allege The prosecuting team cited monitored telephone conversations between Knight and his defense attorney.
• Here's Why The Morning Commute Was So Brutal An overturned big rig spilled a 15-ton load onto the 10 Freeway near downtown, snarling the freeway for 10 hours.
• LA Chargers And Rams Slug It Out At Punchy Practice So much for brotherhood. LA's two NFL teams forgot to play nice as a preseason practice breaks into fights.
• Police Nab Kidnapping Suspect In Violent Pasadena Attack Police have arrested a 29-year-old Pasadena man suspected of trying to drag a woman into his truck until a bystander intervened.
• Swimming With Whales: Dana Point Woman Helps Baby Whale "Carly" This Dana Point woman who helps others with adaptive paddleboarding experiences also helped a whale near the Dana Point pier.
• Barricaded Man Dies In Shootout With Police In Pacific Palisades A gunman, who exchanged fire in a 10-hour standoff with police in Pacific Palisades, is dead.
• Suspected Killer Of County Supervisor's Brother Arrested After 36 Years Authorities announced the arrest of a man suspected of murdering LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas' brother in 1981
• Special "Mindy Project" Costume Exhibit Comes To Beverly Hills The exhibit will show costumes from "The Mindy Project" in celebration of the sixth and final season of the show.
• Woman Who Killed MMA Fighter's Toddler In Hit-And-Run Sentenced The toddler, son of MMA fighter/trainer Marcus Kowal, was 15-months-old at the time of the fatal crash.
• Kendall Jenner Sells "Jinxed" West Hollywood Mansion The model just sold her "jinxed" West Hollywood home.
• Lawsuit Is Latest Salvo In Westside Traffic War Some Westside residents are taking on the city for cutting parts of Venice, Culver and Jefferson Boulevards to single lanes: BREAKING.
• RBPD Needs Volunteer Advocates For Victims Of Domestic Violence Would you like to be the voice for victims of domestic violence? Redondo Beach Police Department is in search of volunteers to do just that.
• SMC Student Wins Prague Film Festival Award The film, about life on the U.S./Mexican border, won "Best Student Film" at Prague's Independent Film Festival.
• Port Of Los Angeles Breaks Records, Has Busiest July Ever It set a 12-month shipping record for a Western Hemisphere port during the recent fiscal year.
• Unsolved Drunk Driving Fatal Collision Ends In Arrest Man arrested for December fatal crash in Seal Beach
• Man Shot And Left For Dead On Pasadena Street Identified Authorities identified a 27-year-old man shot and killed in Pasadena Monday.