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Man Sentenced To 32 Months After Wilshire Temple Bomb Threat
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- A man who pleaded no-contest to threatening to bomb the Wilshire Boulevard Temple and a nearby parked police car was sentenced Monday to 32 months in prison. After negotiating a plea with prosecutors, Wan Ryung Song, 46, also admitted to violating his probation, which stemmed from a previous conviction for making criminal threats. The newer offense doubled his ...
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The Newest Craze At Big Bear Lake Flyboarding
Flyboarding combines wake boarding and water jets. The wave runner forces water through a hose connected to the board and hand jets, lifting the rider as high as 15 feet into the air. Action Aqua Flights offer daily rides from 9a.m. to 5p.m. daily. The cost of a ride is $110 per person for 30 minutes. A grand opening party will be held this weekend at Big Bear Marina for the launch of ...
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Dodger Leaders Wake Up Bats Kershaw Throws Tenth Complete Game As LA Beats Milwaukee 3-1
Clayton Kershaw #22 of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches in the bottom of the first inning against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park on May 20, 2013 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (credit: Mike McGinnis/Getty ...
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In Murder Of UC Fullerton War Vet New Details On What Suspect Told Police
MODJESKA CANYON (CBSLA.com) -- As authorities prepare to charge the roommate of Iraq war vet and UC Fullerton student with her murder Tuesday, new details are emerging from the investigation. The body of 36-year-old Maribel Ramos was found Friday in a remote area in Modjeska Canyon. Her roommate, 54-year-old K.C. Joy, is charged with her murder. KCAL9′s Michele Gile spoke to the suspect ...
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Valley Fever Raises Concerns in California Arizona
LOS ANGELES -- A longstanding health problem in California's Central Valley has worsened in recent years, leading health officials to order the relocation of 3,000 prisoners from two state prisons. But the disease affects much of the population in some rural communities and, while it often goes unnoticed, it sometimes can be devastating for patients. Dale Pulde is selling his California ...
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US manufacturing drawn to Fremont California
A combination of tax breaks, agreeable infrastructure and a proximity to the technology hotspot of Silicon Valley are combining to create interest in manufacturing in Fremont, ...
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Tom Hiddleston heads new Donmar Warehouse season as Hollywood stars make way for British talent
Hollywood imports are no longer required to make a buzz on the West End stage, the head of the Donmar Warehouse said, after unveiling a new Autumn season starring Tom Hiddleston and Jessica ...
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Colletti puts onus of Dodgers woes on players not skipper
Email MILWAUKEE -- Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said his "perspective" on manager Don Mattingly "hasn't changed" and "the players still have to play." Responding to increasing speculation that Mattingly could soon be fired because the Dodgers are in last place, Colletti said on Monday he believes ownership will be patient and cited last year's ...
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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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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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