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Officer Pleads Not Guilty To 12 Sex-Related Counts Involving 14-Year-Old Girl
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- A police officer assigned to Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk was charged Thursday with 12 sex-related counts involving a 14-year-old girl. Mario Uribe Estrada, 41, pleaded not guilty to four counts each of lewd act on a child and sending harmful matter to a minor, three counts of sodomy of a person under 16 and one count of oral copulation of a person under ...
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LAPD officers widow speaks at police memorial ceremony in Ventura
About 40 white doves are released at the end of the annual Ventura County Peace Officers Memorial ceremony Thursday at the Government Center in Ventura. The event honors Ventura County peace officers killed in the line of ...
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Art Laffers tax fix for California
Economist Arthur Laffer, known for advocating supply-side economics while advising former President Ronald Reagan, discusses Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's income tax plan with reporters, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Laffer, of Nashville, Tenn., also advised the Brownback administration and calls its tax plan "beautiful." (AP Photo/John ...
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Lakers Statement On Passing Of Flynn Robison
Submitted by jmckendry on Thu, 2013-05-23 16:07 EL SEGUNDO - The following statement was issued today by the Los Angeles Lakers regarding the death of former Laker Flynn Robinson: "We are very sad to hear of the passing of Flynn Robinson," said Lakers Executive Vice President of Business Operations Jeanie Buss. "Flynn played an important role on the 1971-72 Lakers team that ...
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Tesoro expected to take over BP Los Angeles refinery June 1 - sources
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Independent refiner Tesoro Corp (TSO.N) is expected to take control of BP Plc's (BP.L) 240,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Los Angeles-area refinery in Carson, California, on June 1 as part of a $2.5-million purchase of the ...
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Sen. Ted Lieu bill would protect news organizations
A South Bay lawmaker is moving to protect California reporters and news organizations against secret investigations from law enforcement. State Sen. Ted Lieu announced Thursday that he is adding language to Senate Bill 558 that would require California law enforcement to give news organizations five days notice before issuing a subpoena to a third-party vendor, like an Internet service provider ...
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Torrance police seek men who shoplifted whisky
Surveillance photo of the suspects. (Submitted) Two men entered Albertsons at Torrance and Hawthorne boulevards in Torrance, took $414 worth of Johnnie Walker and Crown Royal whisky and left without paying. Anyone who can identify them should call ...
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Sobriety checkpoints in El Segundo Hermosa Beach
Police will conduct sobriety and driver's license checkpoints tonight at an undisclosed location in El Segundo, and from 9 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday in the eastbound lanes of Artesia Boulevard at Prospect Avenue in Hermosa ...
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South Bay Harbor area restaurant closures
20828 S. Vermont Ave., unincorporated county area Close date: May 15 Reopen date: May 17 Reason for closure: " Sewage Sun California Enterprise 20828 S. Vermont Ave., unincorporated county area Close date: May 15 Reopen date: May 17 Reason for closure: - Liquid waste and ...
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LAPD analyzes Manson disciple Tex Watsons taped conversations with attorney for evidence
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney. Detective David Holmes says the department has had the tapes for a couple of weeks and Robbery-Homicide Division and the Los Angeles County district attorney's office are analyzing them. A federal judge ruled in March that Charles "Tex" ...
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Bill Would Protect California Reporters’ Phone Records
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — State agencies would be required to give journalists five days’ notice before they issue subpoenas to a third-party company for telephone records under legislation announced Thursday by a state senator. Democratic state Sen. Ted Lieu, of Torrance, said he would seek the measure to give greater protection for newsgathering operations. He acted after it was ...
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Man 30 Convicted In Deadly Lake Forest Stabbings
Justin Alvin Masao Tombleson is convicted of stabbing Elvis Kechechian (above) and Hossein Saidan during an argument in Lake Forest on June 11, 2011. (credit: ...
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Manson Disciple’s Tapes Being Analyzed By LAPD
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed ...
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Manson disciples tapes being analyzed by LAPD
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed ...
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For Dodgers in-season managerial change is rare
Don Mattingly has a 187-181 career record as Dodgers manager, including 19-26 this season. (AP) LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers have changed managers in midseason because of poor team play just once in the past 111 years. That was 1998, when the News Corp. ownership group that had traded Mike Piazza a month earlier swept out manager Bill Russell and general manager Fred Claire. Russell, who had ...
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California health exchange includes 13 insurers
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Policyholders will pay anywhere from nothing to $687 a month in insurance premiums under California's health exchange, a program that will involve the participation of 13 carriers who will compete to offer coverage for the nation's most populous ...
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2-day worker walkout ends at UC hospitals
The strike formally ended at 4 a.m. after thousands of hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room assistants and other health care workers joined the walkout organized by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal ...
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View from the sidelines Why Aetna aint in Covered California exchange
Covered California health benefit exchange, and that met the requirements of the exchange, were "selected" to be in Covered California, according to its statement today and the ones they provided afterward. But what about the health plans that chose not to participate? It's not that they weren't "selected," at least in some notable cases, it's that they ...
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California awards $36 million for stem cell research leaders
California's stem cell agency has awarded $36 million from the Research Leadership Awards to attract six top stem cell scientists. The stem cell agency, called ...
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Why $1 billion doesnt mean what it used to in Hollywood
Four films from last year joined the billion-dollar club, including "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." What does that really mean in today's Hollywood? Hint: A lot less than it used ...
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NASA Chief Gets Update On JPL Mission To Capture Asteroid
PASADENA (CBSLA.com) -- An ambitious plan to capture a potentially dangerous asteroid and safely relocate it to an orbit around the Moon was the focus of a Southland visit by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Thursday. KNX 1070′s Pete Demetriou reports the stop was part of Bolden’s tour this week of three separate NASA centers located throughout ...
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True Account Of World War II Told Through Eyes Of Writer Civil Rights Activist As A Child
Marione Ingram, writer, artist and civil rights activist stopped by KCAL9 Thursday to discuss her new book "The Hands of War: A Tale of Endurance and Hope, from a Survivor of the Holocaust". Ingram survived the Holocaust, the fire-bombing of Hamburg, Germany and the incendiary efforts of Mississippi's Ku Klux Klan. She came to the United States and became engaged in the civil ...
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California car sales jump in the first quarter
California new-car sales jumped nearly 13 percent in the first quarter of this year, reaching the highest first-quarter total since 2008.The California New Car Dealers Association said vehicle sales hit 403,658 in the first quarter, a 12.6 percent improvement from a year earlier."The recession that hit California's new vehicle market so drastically is finally disappearing from our ...
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Obamacare in California cheaper than predicted
Health insurers in California will charge an average of $304 a month for the cheapest silver-level plan in state-based exchanges next year, according to rates released Thursday by Covered California, which is implementing the Affordable Care Act there. But many residents will pay a lot less than that for ...
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SoCal Rattlesnake Season Begins
Southern California is at the beginning of rattlesnake season, experts said, which means residents of suburban areas, canyons and deserts will need to tread carefully to avoid the slithering members of four dangerous ...
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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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