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Hollywood stars join Ultimate Champions Match
Actor Will Smith and son Jaden will line up alongside an array of football greats for Saturday's Ultimate Champions Match in London, free to attend and streamed live on ...
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Google Fiber wont help Netflix bandwidth issues
Many had been pinning hopes on Google's fiber optic network speeding up the subscription video-on-demand service, but due to cost it doesn't seem like it will be a solution for the near future. It doesn't look like Google is going to solve bandwidth issues for Netflix. Many had been pinning hopes on Google's fiber optic network speeding up the subscription video-on-demand ...
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CBS takes 18-49 crown to sweep season ratings
"NCIS" was the most-watched show during the 2012-13 broadcast television season. With the May sweeps period wrapping up tonight, CBS is calling it, claiming first place in all key ratings for the 2012-13 broadcast television season. The Eyes win among adults 18-49 with a 2.9 rating average is its first in 21 years, and the network has topped total viewership for the 10th time in 11 ...
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Lionsgate rakes in $250 million in Cannes
While Lionsgate isn't showing the next installments of the "Hunger Games" franchise in Cannes, the studio is making lots of deals at the festival. Lionsgate is raking in the cash in Cannes. The film fest on the French Riviera is underway and the studio that recently merged with Summit Entertainment has sold more than $250 million in territorial rights to nine titles. Lionsgate has ...
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Sony to consider Loeb proposal of entertainment IPO
Sony is now formally considering the proposal of hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, who wants the company spin off part of its entertainment business. Wall Street speaks and corporations act. Sony Corp. is now evaluating a spinoff of its entertainment arm after Third Point hedge fund founder Daniel Loeb wrote the company a hand-delivered letter urging the action. The announcement comes a day before ...
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Auto Club of Southern California cuts car insurance rates
About 1 million customers of the Automobile Club of Southern California will get an average $65 reduction in their annual car insurance premiums, the company and the state insurance department announced ...
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El Segundo mayor pushed aside by City Council colleagues
With roughly a year left in his El Segundo mayoral term, Carl Jacobson was forced from the post this week when a divided City Council opted to hand the job instead to Councilman Bill Fisher. It was Fisher who initiated the switch, which he said was prompted by his desire to get more involved in economic development efforts and do more to promote El Segundo as a business-friendly city. But in a ...
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Authorities Seek Rare Bicycle Stolen In Lancaster Burglary
LANCASTER (CBSLA.com) -- Authorities are asking for the public's help in locating a rare stolen bike that was taken during a burglary at an Antelope Valley ...
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$70M Reduction For Auto Club’s Southern California Drivers
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and Robert Bouttier, CEO of the Automobile Club of Southern California, announced a rate reduction for Auto Club policyholders in California totaling $70 million. The reduction represents a decrease of 4.1 percent. It is effective for new or renewed policies after July 1. "With the economy still recovering, this significant decrease delivers ...
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Video Garcetti trumps Geruel in Los Angeles mayoral election
Los Angeles has elected its next mayor: City Councilman Eric Garcetti, a Latino who will also become the city's first Jewish leader when he takes ...
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Bear strolls through California neighborhood
A bear wandered through a community outside of Los Angeles this morning for more than an hour before being tranquilized by officers. TODAY.com's Dara Brown ...
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Two Killed in Pomona Freeway Crash
A rescue helicopter crew landed on the freeway to transported a third victim. Details regarding the victim's injuries were not immediately ...
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US Air Force test-launches Minuteman 3 missile in California delayed by North Korea tensions
An image provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base shows an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile being launched during an operational test Wednesday May 22, 2013, from Launch Facility-4 on Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The U.S. Air Force launched this unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with ...
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Los Angeles voters limit number of medical marijuana clinics
In this photo taken Tuesday, May 14, 2013, Medical marijuana vials are displayed at the Venice Beach Care Center medical marijuana dispensary in Venice, Calif. Los Angeles politicians have tried and failed for so long to regulate medical marijuana that it was only a matter of time before voters got a chance to control shops that have ...
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15 arrested in connection with marijuana smuggling ring tied to California
Harford County Task Force into a marijuana smuggling ring based in Harford with ties to California. The investigation, which began in 2010 and ended in October 2012, resulted in the seizure of 140 pounds of marijuana, 20 guns, 14 vehicles and more than $140,000 in cash, according to a press release from the Harford County Sheriff's Office. "Drug operations know no boundaries," ...
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Simi Valley Man Arrested For Allegedly Shooting Gun To Open Door
SIMI VALLEY (CBSLA.com) -- A Simi Valley man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly using a firearm to open a door at his residence. Dustin Helm, 27, was taken into custody after police received reports of ';shots fired'; on May 21 at approximately 10:40 p.m. at his home in the 5900 block of Fasley Avenue, according to Simi Valley Police. Officers were told that Helm had shot at his ...
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Public’s Help Sought In Identifying Hotel Theft Suspects
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- Police asked for the public’s help Wednesday in identifying three commercial thefts suspects who have been caught on tape hitting area hotels. At least six burglaries have taken place in recent weeks at downtown and Los Angeles airport hotels, Det. Carlos Lamas ...
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Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for Figaro opera
By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES | Wed May 22, 2013 1:01pm EDT LOS ANGELES May 22 (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines. It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." But unlike ...
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Heat Set For Game 1 Of Eastern Conference Finals
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – It’s becoming almost an annual occurrence, the Miami Heat are in the Eastern Conference Finals again. Since 2005, the Heat have played in five of the nine Eastern Conference Finals and won two championships. ';I know I’m blessed to be going to the Eastern Conference finals for my fifth time,'; Wade said. ';But I would like a lot more in my ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 22
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: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...
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Netflixs Ted Sarandos Reveals His Phase 2 for Hollywood
Algorithms, deep pockets and a disdain for the existing TV model as the chief content officer reveals why the agent who talked about their budgets was "remarkably ill-informed," and countering "the managed dissatisfaction of the entire entertainment ...
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LA County To Study Jail Renovation For Mental Health Center
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- A proposal to tear down part of Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles to build a treatment center for mentally ill inmates has gained the approval of county officials. KNX 1070′s Bill Polish reports the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to study a plan to replace at least one tower of the jail with a mental health and ...
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Edison CPUC Reach $37M Settlement on Southern California Fire
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 Fire. Santa Ana winds knocked three jointly owned utility poles to the ground, sparking the fire that burned 6 square miles, destroyed dozens of structures and burned 36 vehicles. The agreement deals ...
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CBS Extends Tony Awards Through 2018
CBS has reached a new broadcast agreement with the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing to keep the Tony Awards on the network through 2018. CBS has aired the annual kudoscast, which honors achievement on Broadway, for the past 35 years. This year the show moves back to Radio City Music Hall after two years at the Beacon Theatre. "We're pleased to renew our commitment to ...
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Lawmakers Re-Introduce Bill To Limit Overnight Airport Noise
BURBANK (CBSLA.com) -- Two San Fernando Valley lawmakers want to bring residents some relief from noise by limiting the number of flights into and out of local airports. Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) first introduced ...
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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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