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Injury updates Hanley wont be rushed back from DL
Email MILWAUKEE -- Hanley Ramirez continues to take ground balls and hit, but manager Don Mattingly reiterated that the club will be careful about not rushing the shortstop back from the disabled list before his strained left hamstring is completely healed. Mattingly also said that Jerry Hairston, healed from a strained left groin muscle but now nursing left knee tendinitis, played in an ...
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Mattingly keeps focus on team not job speculation
Email MILWAUKEE -- As the media speculates about his job security, Don Mattingly said he's managing. "Any sleeplessness I've had is about our team, not about me," Mattingly said in response to a Fox Sports report that he would be fired later this week. Mattingly met with general manager Ned Colletti on Monday, but insisted it was about the team and how to get it out of last ...
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A Mayoral Race of ‘Firsts’ for Los Angeles Voters
LOS ANGELES -- Voters in the nation's second-largest city will go to the polls Tuesday to elect a new mayor in an election that will inevitably result in a milestone: either the first woman or first Jew elected to the top city ...
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Ex-Convict Is Imminent Public Threat Police
An ex-convict who police have labeled as "extremely violent" and an "imminent public threat" is on the loose, police said on ...
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California will not again for No Child Left Behind waiver
Citing the difficulty of reforming the state's education system, California will not make another attempt to get a waiver of the federal law requires that every youngster be proficient in English and math by 2014, officials said Monday. California lost its bid in 2012 to get a waiver from the No Child Left Behind Law because it was unwilling to tie student test scores to teacher ...
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Proposal for new Los Angeles Health Department clears hurdle
The Los Angeles City Clerk's office announced Monday that a proposal to create a new city Health Department cleared its first hurdle and will now be reviewed to determine if the signatures collected are valid. Sponsored by the Aids Health Care Foundation, the proposal calls on city voters to create a new agency to take over the duties of the county Health Department within the city ...
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Ashes Stolen In Sylmar Home Invasion Returned
SYLMAR (CBSLA.com) -- A Sylmar woman who issued a public plea for the return of her mother’s ashes after they were stolen in a home invasion says they were returned to her on Monday. Kelly Kamakura’s home on Chesterwood St. was broken into on May 8. In addition to stealing purses, jewelery and cash, intruders took a box containing the ashes of Kamakura’s late mother, Pauline ...
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California State Senate Restricts Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
under a bill approved Monday by the state Senate, restricting cannabis dispensaries that federal prosecutors say have grown out of control. California voters first supported ...
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Burglars Break Into Nearly 20 Units At San Dimas Storage Facility
SAN DIMAS (CBSLA.com) -- Burglars broke into nearly 20 units at a San Dimas storage facility Sunday night. The incident happened at Extra Space Storage on 919 W. Gladstone Street. The Brown family, who has been storing things at the facility for about five years, said they felt violated even though they didn't lose anything. "There were some things shoved around, but we didn't ...
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Chargers’ Teo Not Speaking With Reporters
SAN DIEGO (AP)-- Manti Te’o isn’t hiding out. He’s just not talking to the media. After being spotted attending a party thrown by the magazine Maxim last week in Hollywood, Te’o was back in San Diego at the Chargers second open session of organized team activities on Monday. For the second straight week, the former Notre Dame linebacker was barred from speaking with ...
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Police Seeking Suspect Who Impersonated Officer Pulled Over School Bus
REDLANDS (CBSLA.com) -- Redlands Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a man suspected of impersonating a police officer and pulling over a school bus on Friday afternoon. The driver of a Redlands Unified School District bus had just exited Interstate 10 at University Street and turned west onto Citrus Avenue when the suspect, who was driving a silver sedan, used blue and red ...
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Southern California wildfire threatens 4000 homes
A section of the Pacific Coast Highway is closed in California, the United States, May 3, 2013. The wind-driven wildfire forced the evacuation of a university campus and threatened some 4,000 homes in Southern California on Friday. (Xinhua/Yan ...
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Body in Big Bear Believed to be Missing Hiker
Authorities were working to identify a body found in Big Bear, near where hiker Karen Dalman, 59, went missing on Tuesday. Tena Ezzeddine reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, ...
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Superbug Zapper Can Save Millions of Lives
When a patient who contracted a superbug is discharged or transferred, the Enviromental Services Department removes all disposable items, replaces all non-disposables and wipes down everything with ...
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CDC Finds Fecal Bacteria in Public Pools
The city of Dallas will operate 17 public pools starting next Saturday. Fort Worth public pools will be closed this summer season because the city doesn't have enough money to maintain ...
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Services this week for LAX officer who died after 5K honoring Tommy Scott
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Funeral services will be held Thursday morning for the Los Angeles World Airports police officer who died after running in a race organized to honor another officer who was killed while on duty several years ago. Anthony Edwards died May 9, a day after he ran in a 5K Memorial Run for Tommy Scott, his police academy classmate. In 2005, Scott was killed ...
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U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on frequent flier miles
How much control does your favorite airline have over your frequent flier miles? That's now a question for the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed Monday to take a California case involving a man who claims he was dropped by his favorite frequent flier program because he complained too much. Minnesota Rabbi S. Binyomin Ginsberg was a platinum elite member of Northwest Airlines' ...
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LAPD Officer Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 2 Kids Under 14
SANTA CLARITA (CBSLA.com) -- A Los Angeles Police Department officer was arrested at his Castaic-area home over the weekend for allegedly molesting two children. Miguel Schiappapietra, a six-year-veteran of the force, was off-duty when he was taken into custody Saturday and booked at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station on suspicion of committing lewd acts on two kids under the age ...
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Kings Preparing For Game 4 Showdown With Sharks
Jeff Carter #77 of the Los Angeles Kings receives high fives from the bench after scoring a goal against the San Jose Sharks in the first period of Game Two of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Staples Center on May 16, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (credit: Jeff Gross/Getty ...
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Mattingly’s Job Now In Hands Of Players
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- Remember the time the Lakers, stacked with so many all-star names it was inconceivable not to think about a championship, fired Mike Brown, and went on to frustrate fans for the next six months? Do you think history can repeat itself twice in the same year? Los Angeles sports fans were almost thankful when the Lakers, who ended up crawling into the playoffs, finished ...
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Nurse Sentenced To 10 Years On Child Porn Charge
RIVERSIDE (CBSLA.com) -- A Riverside County nurse who pleaded guilty after being caught by federal investigators in a child pornography sting was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Monday. Registered Nurse David Christopher Jelaca, 38, was arrested after federal agents began communicating with him in response to a Craiglist ad. Agents who searched his La Quinta home found more than 26,000 ...
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Edison CPUC Reach $37M Deal On 2007 Malibu Canyon Fire
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The California Public Utilities Commission has reached a proposed $37 million settlement with Southern California Edison over fallen power lines blamed for starting the October 2007 Malibu Canyon ...
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Rare island fox rebounds on California islands
A rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said ...
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Redondo Beach election night results stand after final Monday tally
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } A count Monday of more than 600 outstanding ballots in Redondo Beach didn't change the outcome of any of last week's races for mayor, City Council and treasurer. According to the final results posted Monday afternoon, Councilman Steve Aspel increased his election-night margin of victory in the mayor's race by one vote. Aspel collected 4,381 ...
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Reputed gang members arrested in Wilmington shooting
FACEBOOK Three suspected gang members were arrested shortly after they fired guns on a Wilmington street, police said Monday. The gunfire erupted about 9:10 p.m. Friday in the 1300 block of Sanford Avenue, Los Angeles police Lt. Sue Willis said. Nothing was hit. Police officers responded and followed a Nissan Maxima believed involved leaving the neighborhood. They followed it and watched ...
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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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