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Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti enters office amid tempered expectations
City Councilman Eric Garcetti won the first L.A. mayor's race since the Great Recession with a simple message: telling voters he'd solve their basic problems. Instead of promises to hire cops, Garcetti offered more muted goals, telling voters their phone calls to City Hall would be returned, the streets paved, and he'd make job creation a priority. A day after defeating rival ...
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Mosquitoes in Harbor Area found to be carriers of West Nile virus
Mosquitoes bearing West Nile Virus have been found in early-season samplings done at Machado Lake in Harbor Regional Park (on the border of Wilmington/Harbor City) and the Wilmington Drain (Harbor City) that connects to the lake north of PCH. Signs have been posted warning visitors of the danger. No other infected samples have been found in the county as of now. (Brittany Murray / Staff ...
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Angels Catching Fire As They Beat Royals 7-0 For 7th Straight
KANSAS CITY, MO – MAY 25: Hank Conger #16 of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Mike Trout #27 celebrate a 7-0 win over the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on May 25, 2013 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty ...
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Bynes Alleges Police Sexually Assaulted Her During Alleged Bong-Tossing Arrest
NEW YORK (AP) -- Internal Affairs officers on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was arrested for heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment Thursday night. The 27-year-old former child star first alleged during her arraignment on Friday that police ...
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Long Beach Tenant Concerns Build With Lytles Exit
Port tenants in Long Beach on Friday urged the harbor commission to immediately begin the process of finding a replacement for Executive Director J. Christopher Lytle, who 24 hours earlier announced he was resigning to become executive director of the Port of ...
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Initiative seeks Torrance foster families to care for children in need
The county Department of Children and Family Services recently removed four children from a Torrance home, believing they were abused or neglected. But there was no foster parents in the entire city who could take them in. As a result, the kids were shuffled off to a temporary shelter near USC and later shuttled back to Torrance, where social workers again tried to find somewhere to place ...
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Vocational hub SoCal ROC apparently saved for now
It's looking like the Southern California Regional Occupational Program in Torrance won't be closed after all - not for at least two more years, anyway. Supporters of the hub of vocational-ed activity serving South Bay high school students went into crisis mode earlier this year, when it appeared that the school - known as SoCal ROC, or SCROC - would be a victim of Gov. Jerry ...
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Josh Rubenstein’s Weather Forecast
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Whittier Woman Reportedly Gives Birth To 13-Pound Baby
The baby was born via C-section at Whittier Hospital Medical Center located at 9080 Colima Road. A spokesperson for the hospital says it’s the biggest baby anyone can remember being delivered there — or anywhere for that matter. The hospital said the mother and the baby (larger than some newborn twins) were both resting comfortably. The mother is expected to take her baby home on ...
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Food Calendar Cooking good in the San Fernando Valley and beyond
Sur La Table - Farmers Market: Chocolate Workshop, 2 p.m. today ($69); Thai Made Easy, 6:30 p.m. today ($69); Pies and Tarts, 10 a.m. Monday ($69); Mediterranean Supper, 6:30 p.m. Monday ($79); Macarons, 10 a.m. Tuesday ($69); Culinary Tour of New Orleans, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday ($69); Chocolate Desserts, 10 a.m. Wednesday ($69); Gnocchi Workshop, 10 a.m. Thursday ($69); Spanish Tapas, 6:30 p.m. ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 25
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: Baltimore Orioles: 1. ...
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Dodgers Capuano Has Rough Outing In 7-0 Loss to Cardinals
Jon Jay #19 of the St. Louis Cardinals reacts after a collision at the plate with A.J. Ellis #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers to score a run for a 1-0 lead during the second inning at Dodger Stadium on May 24, ...
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Elderly Man With Dementia Goes Missing In Pasadena
PASADENA (CBSLA.com) -- Pasadena police Saturday continued to search for a 73-year-old man with dementia who went missing after walking away from his care ...
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In California Gardening for Mental Health
The garden, on the scraggly outskirts of town, is one of seven in Fresno created for immigrants, refugees and residents of impoverished neighborhoods with mental health money from the state. At the Slavic Community Garden, Ukrainian refugees persecuted for their religious beliefs in the Soviet Union now grow black currants for jam, dill for pickles and soups, and medicinal calendula flowers from ...
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Feds Won’t Prosecute SoCal Wind Farm If Turbine Blades Kill Endangered Condors
MOJAVE (AP) -- Federal authorities say they won’t prosecute a Southern California wind farm if the company’s whirring turbine blades kill any endangered California condors. The Los Angeles Times reports the Tehachapi Mountain wind farm operated by Alta Windpower Development has been granted a right-of-way by land management and wildlife ...
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Covered California to offer limited choice of providers
California residents who get health insurance through the state's exchange will have limited choice of doctors and hospitals, officials say. Some insurers are offering plans through Covered California that are more restrictive than their other coverage, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. Blue Cross of California, for example, said those buying insurance through the state-run ...
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Longtime Manhattan Beach resident and local historian Wilmer Drake dies
did a lot of fishing and hunting together, a lot of surfing," Cunningham said. "He was well-liked, had a nice personality. " In a letter he wrote to a friend, Drake said he remembered gathering used soda bottles for money so he could take the Red Car down to Redondo Beach. He received a penny a bottle, and the fare was 10 cents each way, 25 cents to rent a bathing suit and enter ...
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2 SoCal Tickets Each Worth $811K Picked In Mega Millions Draw
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- California Lottery officials announced Saturday that two Mega Millions tickets sold in the Southland are worth $811,997 each. No ticket nationwide matched all six numbers in Friday night’s draw. The jackpot was an estimated $15 ...
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Turbine Plans Unnerve Fans of Condors in California
The California condor's slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world. So when the news came on Friday that developers of a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert would not face criminal charges if the blades killed a single condor, environmental groups expressed grave ...
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UFO Over Historic Barn Causes Stir In California
A picture showing a UFO near a historic barn in Santee, California is drawing a bit of attention this week. Ellen Henry was taking pictures of the Edgemoor barn when she noticed the object. Before she could get any clearer pictures, however, she says her camera stopped working. While the images leave plenty of room for discussion and speculation, Henry herself has no doubts. ...
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Westchester Rotarys annual book sale under way
Westchester Rotary has kicked off its 58th annual used book sale in the Ralphs parking lot at Sepulveda and La Tijera boulevards in Westchester. The sale runs through Saturday. Donations of books can be dropped off at the Westchester Senior Center, 8740 Lincoln Blvd.; the Westchester YMCA, 8015 S Sepulveda Blvd.; or at the book sale itself. For more about the club, link to ...
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Bill to raise Californias minimum wage goes to Assembly floor
A Democrat-supported bill to raise California's minimum wage has passed the state's Assembly Appropriations Committee on a party-line vote. Assembly Bill 10, authored by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, was pushed out of committee on a 12-5 vote Friday and now heads to the Assembly floor for consideration. If it becomes law, AB 10 will increase the hourly minimum wage from $8 to ...
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Panga loaded with pot comes ashore in Manhattan Beach two detained
Two Mexican nationals were detained for questioning Saturday after a boat carrying 1,850 pounds of marijuana came ashore at Manhattan Beach, federal authorities said. The panga, a Mexican fishing boat, was discovered about 3:30 a.m., authorities said. Investigators from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security detained the men. No other information, including how they were caught, was ...
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40 Years Later Vietnam POWs Reunite At Nixon Presidential Library In OC
YORBA LINDA (CBSLA.com) -- Hundreds of Vietnam-era POWs gathered Friday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Orange County to commemorate the 40th anniversary of a special homecoming celebration at the White ...
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1 Ton of Pot Found in Boat Off Manhattan Beach
Two Mexican nationals were questioned in connection with the discovery of nearly 2,000 pounds of marijuana aboard a boat that washed ashore in Manhattan Beach on Saturday, May 25, ...
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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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