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NASA Stumps For Asteroid Capture Mission
Scientists at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working on building an asteroid catcher that will guide an asteroid to the moon's orbit. However, the technological challenges may be less daunting than the challenge of securing funding. Patrick Healy reports from JPL for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on May 23, ...
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Five Bulldogs Stolen From San Bernardino Family
Five bulldogs were stolen from a San Bernardino family on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Three of five stolen canines are pictured here on a flier posted by the ...
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Disneyland Campout As Tens Of Thousands Expected To Attend 24-Hour Party
ANAHEIM (CBSLA.com) -- Disneyland is giving people the chance to kick off the summer by partying with their favorite characters for a full 24 hours starting tomorrow at 6 a.m. and park visitors are already lining up for tickets to the all-nighter. Disneyland Park and Disney Adventure Park will stay open from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday. Executives at the Mouse House have dubbed the ...
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Authorities Probe Fatal Shooting In Palmdale Apartment
PALMDALE (CBSLA.com) -- Officials are investing the early Thursday morning shooting death of a man in Palmdale. Sheriff’s Homicide Detectives said a Latino adult was shot in the upper torso in an apartment about 4:55 Thursday morning. The apartment is located in the 200 block of East Avenue ...
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Why Is 2013 Becoming ‘Year Of The Bear’
DUARTE (CBSLA.com) -- Bears are visiting homes — make that entering homes — like never before. They’re hungry and making it clear that kitchen doors are not going to stop them. Bears have been making a habit, of late, of helping themselves to meatballs, peaches, banana bread. You leave it out, they’re eating it. And several homeowners have come literally nose-to-nose ...
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Angels hit 4 HRs beat Royals 5-4
Los Angeles Angels' Mark Trumbo (44) is congratulated by teammate Mike Trout (27) after his two-run home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, May 23, ...
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Boy Scouts End Ban on Gay Members Hollywood Reacts
"A great step forward," George Takei tweets, while Jason Biggs criticizes the organization for keeping the ban on openly gay adults serving as ...
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Ex-Police Officer Gets 8 Months In Jail After Stealing $60K From Youth Scholarship Fund
FULLERTON (CBSLA.com) -- A former Southern California police officer has been sentenced to 240 days in jail for stealing more than $60,000 from a law enforcement football organization that raised money for youth scholarships. Forty-five-year-old Kirk Robert Lotzgesell faced up to three years in prison after pleading guilty in December to a felony count of grand theft. City News Service reports ...
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Torrance rededicates renovated landmark railroad bridge
The Torrance historical railroad bridge was rededicated and renamed the Pacific Electric Railway El Prado Bridge in a ceremony Thursday. The area around the bridge was cleaned, anti-graffitti coating was placed on the concrete and the fence at the top was replaced. (Steve McCrank / Staff ...
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41st annual Fiesta Hermosa spotlights local artists nonprofit groups
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Late Friday night, a few dozen workers will take over Hermosa Beach's lively bar and restaurant plaza, close streets, install stages and equipment, mark off 300 spaces for vendors, and place signs and electrical gear needed to transform the area into festival grounds for Southern California's largest arts and crafts fair this holiday weekend. ...
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Rep. Janice Hahn again pushes for port summer jobs for teens
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } For the second consecutive Congress, Harbor Area Democratic Rep. Janice Hahn has introduced a bill that would establish a grant program to encourage U.S. ports to hire teenagers for summer jobs. Under the Port Opportunity, Reinvestment and Training Act, ports like Long Beach and Los Angeles would be eligible to apply for money from the U.S. Department of ...
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L.A.s $7.7 billion budget approved
With no dissent and few changes, the Los Angeles City Council on Thursday adopted Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's final budget for the city, a $7.7 billion spending plan that seeks to restore some services cut over the past few years. In a session lasting less than three hours, the council voted 12-0 to support most of Villaraigosa's proposals, but did delay for six months his plan to ...
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Kobe Ties Malone With 11 For Most 1st Team All-NBA Selections
James received all 119 votes for the first team from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the U.S. and Canada. Joining the league’s MVP and Bryant on the first team Thursday were Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant, San Antonio center Tim Duncan and Clippers guard Chris Paul. Bryant tied Utah Hall of Famer Karl Malone with his 11th first-team nod. NBA scoring leader ...
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Michael Jackson’s Mother In Tears At AEG Trial As E-Mails Reveal He Was ‘Weak and Fatigued’ Before Shows
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- Michael Jackson’s mother broke down in tears Thursday as the wrongful death trial pitting her against entertainment giant AEG Live continued. It was an emotional day in court as Katherine Jackson listened while e-mails between AEG executives describing how her son looked in the days before his death were reviewed. Some of the e-mails described Michael Jackson ...
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Kansas Woman Accused Of Coordinating Mexican Mafia Business In LA
MONTEREY PARK (CBSLA.com) -- A 30-year-old woman has been accused of coordinating gang activity in Los Angeles from her home in Salina, Kansas. Cecilia Virgen-DeLeon was arrested at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Kansas and faces two counts of conspiracy to commit assault with a deadly weapon and seven counts of street terrorism related to her involvement with the gangs. Police saidVirgen-DeLeon worked ...
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California Puts Tentative Price on Health Policies Under New Law
California, widely seen as a model for how individuals will buy health insurance under the new health care law, announced Thursday that 13 insurers had been chosen to sell policies through the insurance marketplace ...
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Gulp Eat A Bug To Get Free Admission To Museum Friday
HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) -- Craving a caterpillar? Need to relish a roach? Wanna gorge on a grasshopper? If any of that appeals to you, here’s your chance to gain free (or discounted) entry into Hollywood’s ';Ripley’s Believe it or Not!'; museum Friday. It’s Bug Fest ...
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California sees lower-than-expected prices for health insurance
California health officials on Thursday unveiled the likely rates that insurers will charge under the health-care law backed by President Barack Obama - and they are lower than expected, rebutting warnings by critics that many people will experience "rate shock" once the law is fully implemented. On average, a person who chooses a mid-level plan can expect to pay around $321 a month, ...
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Dodgers move pitching prospect Miller to outfield
LOS ANGELES -- Aaron Miller, the Dodgers' first-round sandwich pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft as a left-handed pitcher, has been moved from the mound to the outfield. Miller, 25, had been an outfielder at Baylor University until becoming a pitcher his sophomore season. He was taken 36th overall as a pitcher by the Dodgers as compensation for Atlanta's signing of free agent ...
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Virgin Airlines Gets Top Honors from Consumer Reports
Virgin America was named the best airline in a Consumer Reports survey, with participants praising the airline's comfortable seats and in-flight ...
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LAPD Analyzes Tapes Of Charles Manson Disciple Charles Tex Watson
LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed Thursday. Detective David Holmes said the department has had the tapes for a couple of weeks and Robbery-Homicide Division and the Los Angeles County district attorney's office are analyzing them. A federal judge in Texas ruled in March ...
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Editorial California must keep politicians pay in check
State revenue is up. The California budget deficit appears to be gone. Sacramento is debating what to do with the expected surplus. Use it to improve government services and help the poor? Save it so that the next recession isn't as painful as the last? Naturally, elected officials would like some of it to be used to make life easier for elected officials. They have (just) enough ...
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Port of Long Beach chief Chris Lytle will oversee Port of Oakland
Christopher Lytle LONG BEACH - The head of the nation's second busiest seaport is leaving for a port in Northern California. Port of Long Beach Executive Director Christopher Lytle has accepted the top post at the Port of Oakland, ending a four-month search, Oakland officials announced Thursday. "The Port Commission set a high standard for its next leader and has successfully achieved ...
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Man who jumped from Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro identified
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } A man who jumped to his death from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro has been identified as Brad Dean Dodd, 47, of Long Beach, coroner's officials said Thursday. Dodd drove to the apex of the bridge Sunday night and then climbed up a 10- to 12-foot high security fence and jumped to the harbor below, according to port officials. Witnesses on the ...
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Husky 5 Stolen From Van Nuys Backyard As Neighbor Snaps Pic Of Alleged Thief
VAN NUYS (CBSLA.com) -- A Van Nuys resident says a woman came into her yard and stole her dog but not before her quick-thinking neighbor was able to photograph the alleged dognapper. The victim said the unidentified woman stole April, her 5-year-old Siberian ...
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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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