LA Times reports a masked man, believed to be armed broke into an elderly couples home while they were having a party.
He took money from their safe and then got away in their Mercedes.

The core of the article reads as follows:

The break-in was reported at 10:34 p.m. Tuesday in the 9900 block of Sunset Boulevard near Copley Place, next to the Los Angeles Country Club and near the home of pop singer Lionel Richie, said Tony Lee, a spokesman for the Beverly Hills Police Department.

Really?!
I mean did we need to know exactly who the old couple lives by?
Is that suppose to make it more scary?
Does LA now has a higher crime rate because a house near Lionel Richie was burglarized?

I find this article pathetic.
To make matter worse it is featured as a top story on LATimes.com.

What the world considers news these days baffles me.