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Trout Vargas Lead Angels Over Royals
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Kasten defends Mattinglys critical comments
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers president Stan Kasten on Friday defended manager Don Mattingly's decision to publicly criticize the club's play during its recent six-game road trip. Before Wednesday's game in Milwaukee, Mattingly said he believed this team was not as mentally tough as last year's squad, despite additions in talent. Kasten said he agreed with Mattingly's attempt ...
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National Briefing | West California Drug Cartel Leader Pleads Guilty
The last of four brothers accused of operating a Mexican drug cartel pleaded guilty on Friday in San Diego. Eduardo Arellano Felix, 56, admitted to laundering money and investing funds gained from violating drug laws. As part of his deal with prosecutors, he will spend 15 years in federal prison and then be deported to Mexico. Charges of racketeering and conspiracy to traffic drugs were ...
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Cannes Hollywood Gives Back at Star-Filled AmfAR Gala
In her latest Film Files column, Sharon Swart gets an auction scoop from Harvey Weinstein and catches up with Jessica Chastain, who says of the fundraiser's growth from last year: "I was hoping we'd double it, and we made even ...
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California releases annual school rankings based on API scores
Los Angeles County school rankings The state on Friday released its annual list of K-12 school rankings based on student performance on standardized tests, revealing little in the way of surprise for the South Bay and Harbor Area, where nearly 60 percent of the schools surpassed the statewide average. For the most part, the standing of individual schools here demonstrated little change from a ...
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Bond rating agencies give higher marks to the Los Angeles Community College District
The nation's two top bond rating agencies have hiked their credit rankings for the Los Angeles Community College District, noting its improving financial health, district officials announced Friday. Standard & Poor's confirmed its credit rating of AA for the district and raised its outlook from stable to positive. Moody's Investor Service confirmed an Aa1 rating and dubbed ...
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Coroner looking for relatives of man killed by San Fernando police officer
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office is asking for the public's help to find the relatives of a man who was shot and killed last month by a San Fernando police officer. Coroners have identified the man as 45-year-old Felipe Corrales, who also goes by the name Felipe Perez. Corrales was identified through fingerprints, but no family members have come forward, said Craig Harvey, ...
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Covered California to pay $12M for ad agency and PR over two years
Weber Shandwick $12 million over two years to market the exchange, which will offer insurance to uninsured Californians and small businesses. The contract with Weber Shandwick goes through April 2015, officials said late Friday, just as the Memorial Day weekend got into full swing. Covered California is also retaining Ogilvy Public Relations for media relations and community outreach work. ...
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Palmdale Boy Dies After Sustaining Skull Fracture In Case Of Suspected Child Abuse
PALMDALE (CBSLA.com) -- Authorities Friday said a Palmdale boy has died after sustaining a massive skull fracture and other injuries in a case of suspected child abuse. The unidentified 8-year-old child was pronounced dead at a hospital around 3 p.m. a day after after police say he was severely beaten with burns over his body. The child's mother, 29-year-old Pearl Fernandez, and her ...
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Michael Clarke Duncan’s Family Says Racists Desecrated His Grave
Family members told TMZ, that when they went to leave flowers at Duncan’s grave in Hollywood, they discovered someone had drawn a crude image of a Little Black Sambo character on his tombstone. Duncan, the gentle giant in a variety of movies like ';Sin City'; and 2001′s ';Planet of the Apes,'; died in LA in September 2012 at the age of 54. The family says Forest ...
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Annie Park Shoots 1-Under Par To Help USC Win Its 3rd NCAA Golf Title
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Annie Park shot a 1-under 71 to top the individual standings and help Southern California take its third NCAA women’s tournament title with a record-setting team performance ...
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Will Robbie Rogers be a member of the Los Angeles Galaxy by Sundays game
USA Today had a long feature on the returning MLS star and his decision to come out of retirement following a public announcement earlier this year that he’s gay. The piece mentioned that Rogers has agreed to contract terms with the Los Angeles Galaxy, a team he has been training with for the past few weeks. That led to reporters connecting the dots and speculating on Twitter that there ...
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8-Year-Old Boy Dies After Allegedly Being Bound Tortured
An 8-year-old boy has died days after he was found not breathing and severely beaten allegedly by his mother’s boyfriend, the Palmdale Sheriff’s Department said Friday ...
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Judge dismisses Redondo Beach case against deputy charged with vehicular manslaughter
requires drivers to exercise due care when approaching pedestrians in a crosswalk. Taylor sentenced him to perform 12 hours of community service at a women's shelter. The case stemmed from the Independence Day afternoon when Roberts' and Nuhbegovic's paths crossed as Roberts drove his girlfriend and their daughters to the beach to see holiday fireworks, and Nuhbegovic went for a ...
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LA One Step Closer To Banning Alcohol-Related Ads On City-Owned Benches Street Furniture
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- Los Angeles City Council members are one step closer to banning alcohol-related advertisements on city-owned benches and street furniture. At a Public Safety Committee meeting, Councilman Mitchell Englander asked the city attorney to write an ordinance similar to ones in San Francisco and Philadelphia. Under the order, ads for wine, beer and hard liquor wouldn't ...
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86-Year-Old Man Missing In Downey
DOWNEY (CBSLA.com) -- Authorities want the public’s help to find a missing 86-year-old Downey man. Officials say Ricardo Hernandez was last seen on May 5th leaving his residence on foot. Family believe Hernandez is suffering from early stages of ...
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Inland Empire Family Target Of Brazen Dog Thieves For 2nd Time In 3 Months
SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA.com) -- For the second time in three months, one Inland Empire family has been the target of dog thieves. The Juarez family says five of their puppies, including four French bulldogs and one English bulldog, were taken from their home in the 6000 block of Guthrie Street on Wednesday morning just before sunrise. ';It was really hard. I couldn’t figure out why ...
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Egg Drop wins turf debut at Hollywood Park
INGLEWOOD, Calif. -; Egg Drop was successful in her turf debut, winning the $57,842 feature by three-quarters of a length at Betfair Hollywood Park on ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 24
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...
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LA Hosts 3rd Annual HempCon Marijuana Show
Some 20,000 people are expected at the third annual HempCon medical marijuana conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center during Memorial Day weekend, May 24-26, ...
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Girl 16 Among Victims in Alleged Human Trafficking
Authorities believe there may be more human trafficking victims out there after they arrested two men in Long Beach on suspicion of forcing a teenage girl and two women into prostitution against their ...
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Kitten Season Leaves Dozens of Animals Without a Home
This week, Angelenos abandoned 57 animals at the East Valley shelter alone. That shelter has adopted just 10 of its animals, and if the trend keeps up, it will have to begin euthanizing the could-be ...
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County beach shuttle begins service around Marina del Rey
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Los Angeles County's free beach shuttle, which carries passengers from Playa Vista, around Marina del Rey and to the Venice Pier at the end of Washington Boulevard, begins operating this weekend. The shuttle will run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 29. It also will operate on holidays and ...
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Paparazzi at LAX make their living stalking celebrities
Self-proclaimed paparazzi spend most of their day at LAX waiting for celebrities. They are tipped off by publicists, making the airport gig less stressful than those paparazzi who chase celebrities in the streets. (Brittany Murray / Staff ...
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Senior condominium project moving forward in Rancho Palos Verdes
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Trumark Homes has been given the green light to move forward with a 60-unit, age-restricted condominium project proposed for Crestridge Road in Rancho Palos Verdes. The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council this week certified the developer's environmental impact report and approved the conditional-use permit, grading permit and tentative tract map for ...
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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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