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The brush fire in the hills around Monrovia has been captured in several YouTube videos. The fire sent a large plume of smoke into the air that could be seen across the San Gabriel Valley. As of 6 p.m., the fire had burned 150 acres, and at least 100 homes have been evacuated as a precautionary measure, officials said. PHOTOS: Fire in Monrovia No structures were immediately threatened, said Jennifer McLain, a city spokeswoman. The fire spread from the backyard of a home near Crescent Drive and Madison Avenue, where it was apparently ignited by a spark from a gardening tool about 11 a.m., McLain said.

Especially this week, a minute away from everything seems like a great idea. Fortunately, we have here “A Minute Away,” a newish video series in which our lens alights someplace interesting, settles in for 60 seconds, and watches closely while nothing much happens. No talking heads or music or mug shots. No crawling text-- well, almost none. Also, no one gets hurt. Just scenery and the sound of the wind and, this week, a distant climber groping for traction. We add another video every Friday.

WASHINGTON -- The FBI would like to interview individuals identified in video taken at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a House panel on Thursday. “There is some video that has raised the question of those that the FBI would like to speak with," Napolitano said, adding that she wouldn't characterize the individuals “as suspects under the technical term.” [Updated, 9:54 a.m. PDT: This post has been updated with Napolitano's full quote.

After the Lakers secured the seventh seed in the Western Conference on Wednesday evening, the players began to prepare for their first-round playoff opponent in various ways. Coach Kobe Bryant stayed up late, scheming. Tweeted Bryant at about 1 a.m.: "Going to sleep now. Enough thinking about how to beat the spurs for one night. It's our 12th yr anniversary tomorrow # blessed # soulmate " Pau Gasol, the intellectual, strategized about how to best stop Tim Duncan.

SACRAMENTO -- Much-dreaded automatic federal budget cuts are about to be felt by more than 400,000 long-term unemployed in California. The California Employment Development Department, which administers both state and federal unemployment insurance programs, will be cutting the federal portion by approximately 17.7% beginning April 28. LIVE VIDEO CHAT: Join us at 2 p.m. That represents a tiny share of the $85-billion reduction in...

Psy's new music video "Gentleman" is not only breaking YouTube records, hitting more than 145 million views in less than a week, it just got banned by his home country's biggest TV broadcaster. South Korea's KBS, a state-funded broadcaster, said Thursday it was banning the video because it shows Psy kicking a traffic cone with a "no parking" sign on it. The TV network says it has a policy prohibiting the showing of videos that abuse public property. The ban comes as "Gentleman," the follow-up to 2012's incredibly popular "Gangnam Style" that premiered last Saturday, gallops into YouTube record books.

As former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest Wednesday, videos from Britain provide a glimpse of how she was remembered -- both by those who loved and loathed her. The London ceremony was akin to the 1997 rites for Princess Diana. Above, the Associated Press records scenes of world leaders somberly dressed in black at St. Paul's Cathedral. Her coffin, draped in a Union Jack and laid with white roses, is seen being carried away. The Telegraph provides the video below of Richard Chartres, the Church of England's bishop of London, giving a short sermon at the funeral.

BOSTON - Authorities have obtained clear images of the faces of two men with backpacks who they believe were acting suspiciously around the time of the Boston Marathon bombings, a potential breakthrough in the search to find who planted the deadly devices, sources familiar with the investigation said Wednesday. A department store surveillance camera caught an image of at least one of the men leaving a backpack near the finish line, a federal law enforcement official said. Another official briefed on the investigation said the image that shows two men is the first indication that more than one bomber may have been responsible for the attacks that killed three people and injured more than 170 at Monday's race.

Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have been singled out in surveillance videos of the scene, sources told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. U.S. counter-terrorism and law enforcement officials told The Times that the suspects in the Boston bombings were seen in a department store video that caught images of a man leaving a backpack near the finish line. A second federal official said he has been briefed that authorities believe a second video or photo showed "two men with two backpacks.

Gale Banks Engineering of Azusa is one of about 1,000 companies in California that are part of the nation's $30-billion aftermarket industry. Join David Lazarus and me for a live video chat with Banks, age 70, the aftermarket automotive legend who sold his first car engine when he was 16. As president of Banks Engineering, he's involved with enhancing the performance of a broad array of vehicles. It's called aftermarket because these companies are involved in virtually all aspects of improving the stock, showroom condition of the cars we drive.