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Fired Manhattan Beach officers drank for 7 hours before crash coverup
Three Manhattan Beach police officers fired for their involvement in an off-duty hit-and-run collision three years ago spent at least seven hours drinking in a bar before driving and crashing just 220 feet later, court documents ...
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Police Recover $200K In Items Stolen From OC Storage Facility
HUNTINGTON BEACH (CBSLA.com) -- Authorities are trying to return more than $200,000 worth of recovered items that were stolen from an Orange County storage facility last month. KNX 1070′s Mike Landa reports that jewelery, bicycles, and even bongo drums were among the items stolen from an Extra Space Storage Facility on McFadden Avenue, in a string of reported burglaries at the end of ...
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Mayor Unveils Plans For $500M AltaSea Research Center At Port Of LA
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) -- Los Angeles port officials on Monday unveiled plans to create a $500 million marine research center called AltaSea. KNX’s Ed Mertz reports that the project will be built on a 100-year-old wharf on the San Pedro ...
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6 Cars Collide 1 Overturns On 14 Freeway In Agua Dulce
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911 Caller Admits To False Report That Led To Teen’s Killing By Pasadena Police
PASADENA (AP) -- A man who made a 911 call that ended with Pasadena police fatally shooting a college student pleaded guilty Monday to making a false report. Oscar Carrillo will serve a 90-day jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to two false reporting misdemeanor charges. He will also perform 90 days of community service and pay $3,000 to the Pasadena Police Department. Carrillo told a ...
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Police Arrest Strong-Armed Robbery Suspect In El Segundo
The incident happened around 2 p.m. while the victim was walking to work at the Hilton Garden Inn at 2100 E. Mariposa Avenue. El Segundo police set up a perimeter, while a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter and police dogs assisted in the effort to find the assailant. The suspect was discovered two hours later at 2043 E. Mariposa, which was blocks away from the initial ...
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OC to Get More Drinking Water From Waste
A so-called "toilet to tap" system that takes human wastewater and turns it into drinkable water is undergoing a $150 million expansion, keeping Orange County home to the world’s largest water purification system for potable ...
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The Hollywood Reporter Announces Nine Hires Five Promotions
has announced the promotion of five staffers and the addition of nine more to the expanding media company. May also marked a flagship month for the publication's website, THR.com, which received the highest traffic in its ...
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ATM skimming suspect arrested in California
A suspected ATM skimming ring that involved Romanians targeting bank machines across Florida has lead agents to another suspect, according to federal court documents.Nicu Calin, 43, was arrested in California on June 7, the same day he was scheduled to fly back to Romania, according to documents filed in the federal courthouse ...
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Wildfires to Increase Over California Nevada Utah and Arizona
AccuWeather.com reports weather favoring the spread of wildfires will increase over California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona Tuesday into Wednesday. A strong storm system moving onshore into the Northwest will work to kick up winds over the Southwest into the middle of the week. While winds will not be damaging in most cases, they will be strong enough to raise the risk of spreading existing fires ...
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L.A. Long Beach bike-sharing is coming -- in 2014 Opinion
A couple rent bicycles from a station in New York as that city's bike-sharing program was launched May 27. (Getty Images) The company promoting bike-sharing programs for Los Angeles, Long Beach and Fullerton has shed a little more light on when they'll begin. A little, not a lot. Bike Nation Chief Operating Officer Derek Fretheim said the company hopes to have bike-sharing under way ...
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Losing bidder for LAX ad contract files protest
The losing bidder for a proposed advertising contract at Los Angeles International Airport has filed a formal protest with the Los Angeles city ...
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Donnie Baseball returns to Bronx wearing Dodger blue
Don Mattingly has managed the Dodgers since 2010. He was a six-time All-Star and the 1985 AL MVP in New York. (AP/Getty) For Dodgers manager Don Mattingly, New York City is home. Mattingly is a Yankees icon. He played his entire 14-year career with the Bronx Bombers, was a six-time All-Star and won nine Gold Glove Awards at first base. Mattingly's best season was in 1985, when he hit .324 ...
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Anaheim Man Found Guilty In Fatal Shooting Of Estranged Wife
ANAHEIM (CBSLA.com) -- An Anaheim man was convicted of first-degree murder Monday for following his estranged wife when she took a lunch break from her job and shooting her nine times. KNX 1070′s Mike Landa reports John Rand Agosta is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 30 for the 2011 murder of Alejandra Hernandez, a preschool ...
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Ex-USC Professor Becomes 500th Person To Be Added To FBI’s ’10 Most Wanted List’
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- A former University of Southern California professor and author has become the 500th person to be added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, it was announced ...
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Granddaughter Of Chef Boyardee Founders Gives Tips For The Perfect Italian-Style Picnic
STUDIO CITY (KCAL9)-- Food so good it can tame the beast in you! Chef Anna Bojardi, granddaughter of Italian immigrants who founded the Chef Boyardee company, stopped by KCAL9 Monday to show viewers how to make the perfect Italian-style picnic! In Bojardi's cookbook, "Delicious Memories: Recipes and Stories from the Chef Boyardee Family", she shares the authentic family recipes ...
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VIDEO Breaking Amish heads to Los Angeles
"Breaking Amish," TLC's hit series about young Amish people who leave their families to experience life in the "English," or modern world., is back for a second season. This time, the cast will head to Los Angeles instead of New York, where they'll decide whether to stay in the outside world or return to their communities. "This season features brighter skies ...
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Long Beach TEU Volume Rises More Than 17 Percent
reported May container volume totaling 583,588 20-foot-equivalent units, up 17.2 percent compared to the same month last year and the highest monthly container volume since October 2010.Monthly exports, which increased 13.9 percent year-over-year to 147,073 TEUs, were also at the highest level since October 2010. Furthermore, imports in May rose 22.2 percent year-over-year to 305,498 TEUs, the ...
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Former University Professor Charged in California with Engaging in Sexual Conduct with Minors and Producing Child Pornography
WASHINGTON-Walter Lee Williams, a former university professor, has been indicted for allegedly engaging in sexual conduct with minors and producing child pornography, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Assistant Director Ronald T. Hosko of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division announced today. Today, the FBI added Williams ...
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Three Keys For Bruins In Game 3 Of Stanley Cup Final
BOSTON (CBS) — Though the Bruins lost a heartbreaker in Game 1 in triple overtime, they were able to rally in Game 2 to steal home ice from the Blackhawks before the series headed to Boston. While it was mission accomplished in that sense, both of these teams know the series is a long way from being decided. The winner of tonight’s Game 3, though, will be in the driver’s seat ...
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California Senate honors June 12 and Filipino contributions
Philippine Consul General Marciano Paynor with California Senate Majority Leader Ellen M. Corbett. The Senate officially declared June 12 as Philippine Independence Day. SACRAMENTO- California's State Senate unanimously approved a resolution sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Ellen M. Corbett (D-East Bay) Senator Corbett honoring June 12 as Philippine Independence Day. The state Senate ...
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TODD STARNES Will California let boys use girls locker rooms
That's the issue facing California lawmakers as they consider Assembly Bill 1266 – legislation that would require all public schools to allow students to access to facilities consistent with their gender identity. "AB 1266 forces San Francisco values on all California schools," said Karen England, executive director of ...
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Pioneering Los Angeles woman photojournalist Helen Brush Jenkins dies at 94
In an undated photo news photographer Helen Brush Jenkins, holding a speed graphic camera, is seen with President Harry S. Truman in San Marcos, Calif. Jenkins died Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Chicago. She was 94. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times) NO FORNS; NO SALES; MAGS OUT; ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER OUT; LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS OUT; VENTURA COUNTY STAR OUT; INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN OUT; MANDATORY ...
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Tuesdays police log Carson and Torrance
Torrance Strong-arm robbery: 7 p.m. June 5, Redondo Beach and Crenshaw boulevards. Someone forcibly took the victim's cellphone from her possession. Residential burglary: 10:45 a.m. to 2:05 p.m. June 4, 5000 block of Arvada Street. A screen was removed and a window was pried open. The location was ransacked. Jewelry and a watch were reported stolen. Commercial burglary: 5:50-7:50 p.m. ...
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Ex-Record Exec Calls Hiring Of Murray ‘Highly Unusual’
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) – The promoter of Michael Jackson’s ill-fated series of comeback shows created a conflict of interest with the singer’s physician when it negotiated terms of his deal, an expert testifying for the superstar’s mother told a jury on Monday. KNX 1070′s Margaret Carrero reports David Berman told jurors hearing a negligent hiring lawsuit against ...
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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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