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Plastic bag ban approved by Los Angeles City Council
After more than a decade of debate and watching other cities around the nation take action, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday joined the movement to ban single-use plastic bags in ...
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Award-Winning Journalist Michael Hastings Dies
Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone attends the Guardian’s ';Post-Truth Politics & The Media’s Role'; reception and discussion at The LongView Gallery on May 1, 2012, in Washington, DC. (credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The ...
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Angelina Jolie’s Stunt Double Sues News Corp. Over Alleged Phone Hacking
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- Angelina Jolie's stunt double is suing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for allegedly tapping into her voicemail and obtaining information about Jolie's relationship with Brad Pitt. In court documents, Eunice Huthart said she was working in L.A. at the time on the movie "Mr. & Mrs. ...
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Police Hope To Identify Attackers Caught On Video In Hate Crime Beating
HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) -- Police have released pictures and video in hopes of identifying the men shown brutally beating a transgender woman near a Hollywood Metro stop in ...
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‘Terminator 2’ Star Edward Furlong Charged In Domestic Violence Assault
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- "Terminator 2" star Edward Furlong was charged Tuesday with assaulting his girlfriend and threatening her if she called ...
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Obamacare and California — little hope
The Legislature last weekend endorsed a major part of the state's role in implementing President Obama's health care reform law, opting to expand Medicaid to 1.4 million poor Californians. The only hope now -- slimmer than slim -- is that Gov. Jerry Brown will miraculously see the light and reverse the state's participation in this disaster-in-waiting known as ...
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Aetna Leaving Californias Individual Health Insurance Market
Aetna Inc. said it would stop selling individual health insurance policies in California next month, and nearly 50,000 existing policyholders will have to find new coverage by January. The company's announcement Monday comes a month after it opted not to participate in California's new state-run insurance market for consumers, a key component of the new federal healthcare law. ...
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Opener in Bronx a wash twin bill on Wednesday
NEW YORK -- Manager Don Mattingly had just told the media that his Dodgers were healthier than they've been in a while when Tuesday night's game was rained out, to be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday. Now, can his Dodgers survive a second night off in New York unscathed? The team needs to report to Yankee Stadium in the morning, with Hyun-Jin Ryu scheduled to ...
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National Briefing | West California Plastic Bags On Way Out
The Los Angeles City Council gave initial approval Tuesday to an ordinance banning stores from providing customers single-use plastic bags. It would also require stores to charge 10 cents each for paper bags. The ordinance, which requires a final vote next week, would take effect next year, starting with large stores and then expanding to small stores. Los Angeles County and cities including San ...
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$25K Reward Offered in Attack of Transgender Woman
Police on Tuesday announced a $25,000 reward for information that will lead to the arrest of multiple people who seriously assaulted a transgender woman in Hollywood last ...
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Hollywood May Put The Squeeze On Parking Spaces
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Calif. Locking Up Far Fewer Juvenile Offenders
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- California is a national leader in reducing the number of juvenile offenders incarcerated in state and county lockups, according to a study advocacy groups released Tuesday. Driven by budget cuts, lawsuits and research, the state has taken steps that helped reduce the number of youths in correctional facilities by 41 percent between 2000 and 2010. Fewer than 9,800 youths were ...
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Dodgers-Yankees Game Postponed By Rain Will Play Doubleheader Wednesday
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) --The game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees was postponed Tuesday due to rain. The teams will play a doubleheader Wednesday at 10:05 a.m. PST and 4:05 p.m. PST. The earlier game will be broadcast on ...
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Psychologist attacked by inmate at LA prison
LOS ANGELES -; A contract psychologist is recovering from injuries she suffered in an attack by an inmate at the state prison in Los Angeles ...
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Hollywood considers shrinking parking spaces
Hollywood’s parking spaces could be getting shorter.As work continues on the side streets connecting A1A to the Broadwalk, dozens of parking spots are being lost.To make up for them, the Hollywood City Commission is considering reducing the size requirements to squeeze as many into the available space as possible. Instead of a parallel parking space 8 1/2 wide by 18 feet long, the new ...
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Los Angeles says yes to re-usable grocery bags no to plastic
By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:40pm EDT LOS ANGELES, June 18 (Reuters) - Step away from the plastic bags, Angelenos. The Los Angeles City Council took the first step on Tuesday towars making the city the largest U.S. municipality to ban plastic bags at the grocery store, with the goal of keeping them out of streets, beaches and the Pacific Ocean. The ...
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Hollywood Docket Twilight Perfumes Madden NFL Trial Sony TV Settlement
Electronic Arts Faces Jury Trial Over 'Madden NFL' The Lionsgate division has filed a new lawsuit over perfumes that allegedly infringe trademarks relating to its blockbuster franchise. Among the fragrances in dispute are Moonlight Women's Eau De Parfum and Moonlight Ever After Eau De Parfum. Over the years, Summit has branched out into the fragrance market with licensing deals. ...
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San Fernando Valley home price nears $500000
Foreclosure activity continued its steep decline to pre-recession levels across the San Fernando Valley in May as housing prices approached the $500,000 mark, a research center said ...
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Hawthorne High to become first South Bay high school to offer prestigious program
Hawthorne High is set to become the first high school in the South Bay or Harbor Area to offer a prestigious curriculum called International Baccalaureate, an accelerated program that rivals Advanced Placement and whose most successful graduates can enter college as ...
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Villaraigosa ‘I Want To Run For Governor’
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) --Outgoing mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Tuesday that he wants to run for governor, but didn't reveal when he plans to make that happen. In an interview with KPCC radio's Larry Mantle, the termed-out mayor said, ';I want to run for governor. In fact, I fully expect that I will.'; Villaraigosa, who was recently accused by L.A. Weekly of ...
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MLB Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Yankees ppd. rain
Tuesday's game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees has been postponed due to rain in New York. The game will be made up Wednesday at 1 p.m. EDT as part of a split doubleheader, with the second game scheduled for 7:05 ...
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Best And Worst Balancing Acts In Hollywood Film And TV Production History
franchises and other hits, made waves this week with a major executive hire. The company, launched more than a decade ago by Thomas Tull, is bringing longtime Warner Bros. television chief Bruce Rosenblum in to steer Legendary's push into TV and digital production. (An interesting video interview with Tull about his approach to the movie business is posted ...
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California prosecutors Man threw ex-wife off cruise ship in Italy
By Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News A man was arraigned on indictment for murder on Monday by a California grand jury for throwing his ex-wife over the side of a cruise ship, according to the Orange County District Attorney.The indictment against Lonnie Loren Kocontes, 55, includes one felony count of murder for financial ...
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Colorado wildfire snuffs over 500 homes California fire a threat
DENVER/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The number of homes destroyed by a Colorado wildfire rose above 500 on Tuesday as rain dampened the flames and allowed damage assessment teams to enter charred neighborhoods, as another threatening blaze grew in ...
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Kings Reach New 6-Year Deal With Slava Voynov
Slava Voynov #26 of the Los Angeles Kings at American Airlines Center on October 27, 2011 in Dallas, Texas. (credit: Ronald Martinez/Getty ...
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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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