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Sobriety checkpoints in El Segundo Hermosa Beach
Police will conduct sobriety and driver's license checkpoints tonight at an undisclosed location in El Segundo, and from 9 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday in the eastbound lanes of Artesia Boulevard at Prospect Avenue in Hermosa ...
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Bill Would Protect California Reporters’ Phone Records
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — State agencies would be required to give journalists five days’ notice before they issue subpoenas to a third-party company for telephone records under legislation announced Thursday by a state senator. Democratic state Sen. Ted Lieu, of Torrance, said he would seek the measure to give greater protection for newsgathering operations. He acted after it was ...
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Obama Repeatedly Heckled By Bay Area Activist During Security Speech
Medea Benjamin, an activist from the organization called Code Pink, shouts at U.S. President Barack Obama while he speaks at the National Defense University May 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama used the speech to outline and justify his administration’s counterterrorism policy, including increased cooperation with Congress on matters of national security, added transparency regarding the ...
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Sacramento doctor convicted of sexually abuse
http://bit.ly/189wOMK ) that a jury on Thursday convicted Dr. Scott Dodd Anderson of six counts of sexual abuse and acquitted him of two ...
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250-acre blaze burns in San Diego County
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says the blaze began at 12:20 p.m. Thursday north of State Route 79, east of the town of ...
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Assembly passes several election-related bills
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; Immigrants who are not U.S. citizens could serve as poll workers in California under one of several election-related bills that have passed the state ...
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Fugitive in LA attempted-murder case held in Colo.
LOS ANGELES -; A man who has been wanted in Los Angeles on attempted-murder charges for 13 years has been taken into custody in Colorado after being arrested for urinating in ...
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Hirshhorn director to resign over split with board
WASHINGTON -; The director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum has announced his resignation after the museum's board declined to move forward with plans to create an inflatable pavilion at the ...
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Appeals court Oks Marin desal study
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -; A state appeals court has okayed an environmental study of a Marin County water district's proposed desalination ...
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Manson disciples tapes being analyzed by LAPD
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed ...
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Bill would protect Calif. reporters phone records
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; State agencies would be required to give journalists five days' notice before they issue subpoenas to a third-party company for telephone records under legislation announced Thursday by a state ...
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Rags to pitching riches Righettis skill sparked debate
Dave Righetti won AL Rookie of the Year and threw a no-hitter as a starter before emerging as a standout closer. (AP) SAN FRANCISCO -- In the evolving history of relief pitching, Dave Righetti spanned eras. By the time Righetti's active Major League playing career ended in 1995, closers usually pitched only a ballgame's final inning. But Righetti routinely was asked to do much more ...
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For Dodgers in-season managerial change is rare
Don Mattingly has a 187-181 career record as Dodgers manager, including 19-26 this season. (AP) LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers have changed managers in midseason because of poor team play just once in the past 111 years. That was 1998, when the News Corp. ownership group that had traded Mike Piazza a month earlier swept out manager Bill Russell and general manager Fred Claire. Russell, who had ...
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Ex-PSU player takes battle vs. bullying to book
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- A former Penn State women's basketball player has taken to writing to resume the anti-bullying efforts she championed off the ...
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California reveals prices for health insurance under Obamacare
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California unveiled prices on Thursday that consumers will pay for a selection of health plans offered through the state under the Affordable Care Act, providing a glimpse into how health care reform may look as it is rolled out across the ...
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Highway 163 Shooter Convicted
Stephen Dragasits, 58, faced his accusers Monday in a preliminary hearing. He allegedly fired -- at random -- a gun at state Route 163 morning traffic on April 25, injuring Ashley Simmons, a University of San Diego student, and striking Jeffrey Lloyd-Jones' ...
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California health exchange includes 13 insurers
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Policyholders will pay anywhere from nothing to $687 a month in insurance premiums under California's health exchange, a program that will involve the participation of 13 carriers who will compete to offer coverage for the nation's most populous ...
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Boy Scouts vote to accept openly gay boys but retain ban on gay adults
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts. Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal. Under the proposal drafted by the Scouts' governing board, gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout leaders. ...
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Climate change Do governors actions match his rhetoric
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- The global threat of climate change must be addressed without delay lest we pass a tipping point after which the damage can't be undone, Gov. Jerry Brown told a sustainability technology summit Thursday."What's coming at us is what we ourselves are creating," he said, adding that if action against climate change "is just about like this five years from ...
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Berkeley names new schools chief after difficult search
BERKELEY -- The school board Wednesday night named Donald Evans as the new superintendent to oversee the district after a tumultuous search that took over a year.Evans was not at Wednesday night's meeting where board members unanimously approved his $229,500 salary because he was attending his last school board meeting as superintendent of the Hayward school district which he has overseen ...
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2-day worker walkout ends at UC hospitals
The strike formally ended at 4 a.m. after thousands of hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room assistants and other health care workers joined the walkout organized by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal ...
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View from the sidelines Why Aetna aint in Covered California exchange
Covered California health benefit exchange, and that met the requirements of the exchange, were "selected" to be in Covered California, according to its statement today and the ones they provided afterward. But what about the health plans that chose not to participate? It's not that they weren't "selected," at least in some notable cases, it's that they ...
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Campbell gobbles up Plum Organics
Campbell Soup Co. is acquiring Emeryville's Plum Organics, a maker of organic baby foods. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, the company said that with the addition of Plum Organics' products, Campbell's portfolio of kid-focused soups, beverages and snacks will have annual sales of more than $1 billion. Baby food is currently a $2 billion category in the United ...
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California awards $36 million for stem cell research leaders
California's stem cell agency has awarded $36 million from the Research Leadership Awards to attract six top stem cell scientists. The stem cell agency, called ...
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Why $1 billion doesnt mean what it used to in Hollywood
Four films from last year joined the billion-dollar club, including "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." What does that really mean in today's Hollywood? Hint: A lot less than it used ...
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LAX gets a facelift
Los Angeles International Airport has decided to go under the knife again; the sixth busiest airport in the world is in the final stages of a multi-million dollar face lift of its international terminal, aimed at bringing the airport back up to world class standards in design and service and now there is talk of even further redevelopment for the domestic terminals as well.
LAX was once considered a pioneering facility in the early days of the jet age, the famous Theme Building, built to resemble a flying saucer that has just landed is testament to this period of advancement and modernism. The building features a circular restaurant below four concentric spider-like legs, in-keeping with the space-age theme of the building, this restaurant is called Encounters. Read more
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