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Tea Party Patriots To Rally At IRS Offices
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- Protesters were expected Tuesday to descend upon Internal Revenue Service offices throughout Southern California and nationwide in the wake of reports that the tax collection agency targeted conservative groups. Members of the national Tea Party Patriots have voiced public outrage ...
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Bill Ensures Paid Family Leave For California Workers
California businesses would be prohibited from firing or retaliating against employees who take advantage of the state’s paid family leave program under a job-protection bill moving through the Legislature. The legislation would protect workers who use the California Paid Family Leave insurance program, which allows qualified employees to take up to six weeks off with partial pay. ...
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Las Vegas casino hosts fundraiser for California senator on eve of key vote
Senate President Pro Temp Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento speaks with Senator Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens during session in the Senate chambers in Sacramento, Calif. on Monday, March 11, ...
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California Must Comply With No Child Left Behind
education mandates that officials across the country consider a burden. The point was made as the U.S. Department of Education announced that it granted three more states waivers to No Child Left Behind, the bipartisan legislation that is closely associated with the administration of George W. Bush. No Child Left Behind required virtually every U.S. student to be academically proficient ...
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Netflix Flixster pin hopes on Pinterest
Pinterest now offers recipe, movie and product pins that deliver more detailed information to users. Web-savvy movie fans pin movie posters to their Pinterest boards the way college kids plaster their dorm walls with one-sheets for Pulp Fiction and Scarface. Now the San Francisco-based social networking site, on which users pin images onto virtual themed boards, has partnered with Netflix and ...
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Tesoro Corp. will sell Carson terminal assets to Tesoro Logistics
A file photo of Tesoro Corp.'s refinery in Hawaii. Tesoro has agreed to sell its logistics assets in Carson, Calif. to Tesoro Logistics LP. Tesoro Corp. will sell some of the storage infrastructure it acquires through its takeover of BP Plcs Carson, Calif., refinery to Tesoro Logistics LP, a partnership it formed in 2011 to develop pipelines and other oil-logistics assets. The infrastructure ...
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In pictures The Hangover Part III premiere in Los Angeles
Bradley Cooper poses with fans upon his arrival for the premiere of The Hangover Part III at the Westwood Village Theatre in Los Angeles. Paul Buck / ...
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Fatigued electorate to make historic choice in Los Angeles
By Jessica Taylor, NBC News Los Angeles will make history when voters elect a new mayor on Tuesday but the runoff race between two Democratic candidates isn’t drawing much interest as turnout could reach a record low despite the more than $33 million that’s been spent on the nearly two year-long contest to succeed outgoing Mayor Anthony Villagarosa. The race pits City Controller ...
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UC Health System Workers Strike Over Pensions Patient Care Concerns
WESTWOOD (CBSLA.com)-- Healthcare workers began at two-day strike early Tuesday morning at five of the biggest medical centers in the University of California system. More than 13,000 workers hit the picket lines outside UCLA, UC Irvine and three other campuses at 4 a.m. The strike comes after nearly a year of stalled contract negotiations with UC Administrators over pensions and staffing ...
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Dave Grohl Joins the Rolling Stones Onstage in Anaheim
The Rolling Stones continued with the high-profile guest performers last night at the Honda Center in Anaheim when Dave Grohl joined the rockers onstage to play guitar and sing on ...
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Los Angeles mayoral race between two former allies nears climax
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti speaks during an election night party at Avalon night club in Hollywood, California, March 5, ...
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Dwight Howard-Lakers relationship on rocky ground
NBA ’s King of Drama, is back at it, getting himself tangled in all sorts of rumors and speculation that point to a decision that will put another ding in his already-damaged reputation: Dwight Howard is likely going to leave the Los Angeles Lakers. Read all about ...
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Clippers among tops in Minor League merchandise sales
The Clippers were among the top 25 for Minor League Baseball merchandise sales last year. Minor League Baseball reported its best year of merchandise sales since 2008 and the Columbus Clippers proved to be among the 25 best-selling brands, according to the league's website. The league's national licensing program, consisting of 160 teams, generated about $54 million in sales of licensed ...
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Banged-Up Lundqvist Ready To Go For Rangers In Game 3
Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers grimaces in pain from his left shoulder after making a save late in the third period against the Boston Bruins in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty ...
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Study Shows Whole-Cell Vaccine Was More Effective Than Acellular Vaccine During California Pertussis Outbreak
pertussis vaccines were more effective at protecting against pertussis than acellular pertussis vaccines during a large recent outbreak, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in Pediatrics. Whole-cell pertussis vaccines, also called DTwP, were available from the 1940s to 1990s, but were associated with safety concerns that ultimately led to the development of acellular pertussis ...
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Six candidates vie for two CalPERS board seats
Six people, including the two incumbents, are competing for the two member-at-large positions on the CalPERS board of administration. The California Public Employees Retirement System on Monday announced six candidates who are competing for the two member-at-large positions on the funds board of administration. The terms for the incumbents end in January 2014. Candidates for the first open ...
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Customs officers seize elephant meat dead primate in Los Angeles
This photo released by U.S. Customs & Border Protection, shows elephant meat, one of several contraband items seized by the agency at Los Angeles International Airport between May 6 and ...
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In-Flight Thefts On The Rise At LAX
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- Cases of passengers breaking into other people’s carry-on bags during flights are on the rise at Los Angeles International Airport. Since 2011, airport police have received 130 reports of theft aboard flights, which includes items taken during the flight or taken after the plane landed. Virginia Blumenthal of Riverside said the in-flight crime was something she ...
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UC Officials Patients Await Planned Strike
WESTWOOD (CBSLA.com) -- Family members of patients receiving care at UCLA Monday were among those awaiting the planned strikes scheduled to start early Tuesday morning. ';It should be about the patient and patient care,'; said Sheri Holman, whose son is a patient at UCLA Medical Center. She drove from San Bernardino to Westwood upon hearing the news of the impending strike. ';I ...
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Local Actor With Roots In Moore OK Reacts To Tornado’s Devastation
NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA.com) -- A local actor who has family and roots in Moore, Oklahoma, spent the evening watching coverage and monitoring social media after a mile-wide tornado devastated his hometown on Monday. Danny Cooksey, a voice and television actor who was made famous by his childhood role as Sam McKinney in the TV sitcom ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ is a native of Moore, a ...
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Recycling Old Clothing Lets Shoppers Go Green Save Green
WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) -- As the summer fashion season approaches, some retailers are asking shoppers to recycle the old as they make way for the new. Elan Sevko of West Hollywood is on the hunt for a new summer ensemble. As she tells it, much of the clothing hanging in her closet is ';too bulky';, ';too five years ago'; or ';too tattered';. Some stores are ...
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SoCal Ex-Cop Who Committed Suicide Could Still Be Sentenced For Kidnapping Rape Of Waitress
ONTARIO (CBSLA.com) -- A former police officer could still be sentenced for kidnapping and raping a waitress in 2010 even though he committed suicide seven months ago. Anthony Orban, 33, was working as a detective in Westminster when he stalked Erinn* at a Dave and Buster's parking lot at Ontario Mills Mall, forced her into her car and then raped her at another location. Erinn was able to ...
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Company Offers Financially Friendlier Alternative To Taxi Cabs In LA
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- Many Los Angeles residents are starting to notice cars, driving around the city with pink mustaches on the front of their hoods. The cars are part of a new car-sharing service called Lyft, which is helping people who don’t have cars of their own to get around LA for cheaper than the price of a taxi cab. The company, which started it’s service in San ...
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Governor of California congratulates people of Azerbaijan on Republic Day
The Governor of California Jerry Brown has congratulated the people of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani community in California on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. In his letter sent to the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles, Governor Brown notes that Azerbaijan has a rich history and "the Azerbaijani people in California and throughout ...
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Local Trainer Successfully Enhances Student Athletes Without Steroids
WEST LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- One personal trainer in Los Angeles is showing that the path to competitive physical prevalence is more efficiently done through hard work and technology than it is through steroids. Todd Person’s gym in West Los Angeles shows off the professional jerseys of his clients. Person says that, with today’s technology and training methods, there is no need ...
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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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