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Lake Perris Is Perfect For A Sunny Drive And A Family Picnic
Pack that picnic basket, it’s time to reconnect with nature and enjoy the amazing beauty of the great state of California. Why not go for a scenic drive and head to a great park or picnic spot with your closest friends and family? Is there any better way to spend a sunny summer day? Try heading ...
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Complaints Filed Against 4 Colleges Including USC Over Rapes
NEW YORK (AP) -- Women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred joined students from four U.S. colleges and universities on Wednesday to announce the filing of federal complaints over how the higher-education institutions handle rape allegations. Students who attended the New York news conference said the colleges and universities had not taken their rape complaints ...
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Feds Take Over California High-Risk Insurance Program
About 17,000 Californians with serious medical problems will be moved from a state-run stopgap health insurance program to a federal plan starting in July, ensuring they will have no break in medical coverage until the national health care reforms kick in next year, state officials announced this week. The state board that oversees the California Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan said ...
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Illegal street racing can lead to California auto accidents
Munoz vs. Confidential Auto Dealership Negligence; Delivery driver rendered paraplegic when fork lift operator allowed lift to topple over onto while plaintiff was making delivery at auto ...
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Cops California Woman Bit Her Husbands Scrotum During Dispute Over Rodeo Departure
For the second time in recent days, a woman has been arrested for biting the genitals of her male partner during a domestic dispute. Christina Salinas, 37, was arrested early Sunday following a violent confrontation with her husband at the couple's home in Rough and Ready, California. According to investigators, Salinas was upset that her husband made her leave the Penn Valley Rodeo ...
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The Hollywood Reporters best stories of the week
From Ben Affleck's dealmaker to Keith Olbermann's (Republican) pit bull, The Hollywood Reporter's definitive list of the best in the ...
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Challenges Mount for Southern California International Gateway
When the Los Angeles City Council on May 8 approved the final environmental impact report for construction of BNSF Railway's $500 million near-dock intermodal yard in Southern California, the approval proved to be the beginning of a journey rather than the end of a ...
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Tough Season for Dodgers Mattingly
Manager Don Mattingly of the Los Angeles Dodgers looks on from the dugout during the game with the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium on May 6, 2013 in Los Angeles, ...
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California police arrest man for alleged Disneyland scam
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – Authorities say a man has been arrested after claiming to be a member of the Walt Disney family and giving away invalid Disneyland passes. Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say the man called himself "Stephen Disney" and had a fake driver's license and tax forms that falsely claimed income from the Walt Disney Corp. The statement says he ...
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Joe Francis Apologizes for Appalling Interview With The Hollywood Reporter
I deeply regret the remarks attributed to me in the interview with the Hollywood Reporter. They were hurtful and do not reflect my true feelings. While I disagree with the jury's verdict as I am completely innocent of the charges and intend to appeal, I was afforded a fair trial, and if I lose at the appellate level, I will reluctantly but fully accept the jury's verdict. This was a 6 ...
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Pacers Couldn’t Stop The Perfect Play
MIAMI, FL – MAY 22: LeBron James #6 of the Miami Heat drives and makes the game winning basket in overtime against the Indiana Pacers during Game One of the Eastern Conference Finals at AmericanAirlines Arena on May 22, 2013 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty ...
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Blackhawks Look To Break Howard In Game 4
DETROIT (AP) Jimmy Howard’s cat-quick reflexes in net and easygoing nature out of it are big reasons the Detroit Red Wings are on a roll. Howard has held top-seeded Chicago to only one goal in two straight games, lifting seventh-seeded Detroit to a 2-1 series lead. He was the star of the end-to-end, high-paced Game 3 the Red Wings won 4-1 on Monday night, when he became their first goalie ...
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London Underwriter Becomes First to Insure California Carbon Credits
Parhelion Underwriting Ltd. became the first insurer to offer a policy to protect companies from the invalidation of carbon offset credits sold as part of California's cap-and-trade program. Parhelion, based in London, will sell insurance for permits originally issued by the Climate Action Reserve, an independent registry in Los Angeles, the companies said in an e-mailed statement today. ...
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One Win Away Bruins Not Looking At Past
The Bruins celebrate their 2-1 win over the New York Rangers in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty ...
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California jobless claims shoot up by 15000
California reported the largest jump in new jobless claims of 15,060. It attributed the change to layoffs in the service industry. The number of people making new jobless claims across the country dropped by 23,000 to 340,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. California saw a huge increase in new claims. The four-week moving average was 339,500, or a drop of 500 from the previous ...
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Roadshow Drivers with their own Breathalyzers say .08 is pretty darn drunk
Los Altos A I like it and here's why: Although any change is a long shot and at best many years away, it raises awareness that you don't need to be legally drunk to be an impaired driver. State officials say there has been no push to lower the blood alcohol level either in the Legislature or Congress. Maybe that will change over time, but there seems to be no urgency to tackle this ...
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Sheriff Coroner To Resume Digging In Glendora Yard In 1978 Cold Case Disappearance
GLENDORA (CBSLA.com) -- Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives and the Coroner will resume digging in the backyard of a Glendora home Thursday in connection to a 35-year-old cold case disappearance. Authorities began searching the yard in the 500 block of Essex Street Wednesday afternoon for any evidence related to the disappearance of 24-year-old Wendy Byron. Byron was living at the ...
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Heal The Bay To Release Annual Beach Report Card
HERMOSA BEACH (CBSLA.com) -- Heal the Bay will release its annual Beach Report Card Thursday morning. The report card, scheduled to be publicized at 11 a.m., grades 445 beaches on an A through F scale throughout California based on water pollution levels. The better the grade a beach receives, the lower the risk of illness to ocean ...
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First-time jobless claims drop by 23000
The U.S. Labor Department said first-time jobless benefits claims dropped by 23,000 to 340,000 in the week that ended Saturday. The department revised last week's estimate from 360,000 to 363,000, meaning the prior week's gain in initial claims filed came to 35,000, not 32,000. The four-week rolling average for the week fell by 500 to 339,500. The largest increases in initial claims ...
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Gamers get opportunity to become master at University of California
Video game masters will soon have the chance to be validated as the University of California rolls out a new one-year program, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports. A new master's of science degree program in games and playable media will be offered in the fall, the university announced Wednesday. "They will learn to be independent game makers, and they can go on to work in the ...
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Northern California landslide stabilizes
LAKEPORT, Calif. -; Officials say a Northern California subdivision that partly sank into a hilltop has stabilized after several homes, roads and sections of a sewer system were ...
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Hi Its Ari $ing Emanuel and I plan to shake up Hollywood
Sean Parker, the billionaire technology investor and onetime president of Facebook, will never forget being on the receiving end of an Ari Emanuel onslaught. It was 2009. Emanuel, the famous Hollywood agent, had been e-mailing Parker because a friend had suggested they connect. "I knew who he was," says Parker, who, like so many others, conflated Emanuel with Ari Gold, his alter ego on ...
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When Hollywood Wants Good Clean Fun It Goes to Mormon Country
The film's premise sounded fun and wry and a little hokey. It was aiming for that Pixar-ish sweet spot, which is typical of the animated shorts that B.Y.U. students have made every year since the program started in 2000. (See, for example, ...
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UnitedHealth Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange
Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California are all expected to participate in the state-run market for individual health ...
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Distraction burglars who hit Torrance victims arrested in Orange case
Erika Ephraim, 19 Two suspected gang members have been charged with committing a distraction burglary in the city of Orange just months after they were convicted of victimizing elderly victims in Torrance, police said Wednesday. Mickey Christian Mitchell and Erika Ephraim, both 19-year-old Anaheim residents, were arrested by Torrance police officers earlier this month in connection with the ...
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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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