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AAA Customers To Receive Average 4.1 Rate Reduction
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com)-- Auto Club of Southern California customers will receive an average 4.1 percent rate reduction on policies starting July 1, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced Wednesday. The company agreed to lower its rates by $70 million, or an average of $35 per policyholder, following discussions with the California Department of Insurance and the nonprofit Consumer ...
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Look Picture Perfect On Your Wedding Day With Tips From Raychel Wade
Raychel Wade from TLC's wedding show "Randy to the Rescue" visited the KCAL0 studios Wednesday to show viewers this year's wedding season ...
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Audit Finds Bell Faces ‘Fiscal Crisis’ After Corruption Scandal
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) -- An audit by the California state controller’s office reveals that the city of Bell is still reeling financially three years after it was discovered the working-class suburb’s municipal leaders had looted millions of dollars from its treasury. State Controller John Chiang released the audit ...
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Big 5 CBS EcoMedia Join Forces To Donate To Compton Baseball Academy
COMPTON (CBSLA.com) -- Hundreds of high school and collegiate ballplayers are getting new uniforms and equipment thanks to Big 5′s participation ...
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Philanthropist Author Linda Daly Discusses Latest Book ‘The Last Pilgrimage’
STUDIO CITY (CBSLA.com)-- Philanthropist and author, Linda Daly, stopped by KCAL9 Wednesday to tell viewers about her book, "The Last Pilgrimage: My Mother's Life and Our Journey to Saying ...
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Want to one-up your neighbor Put an IMAX in your home
"Family Guy" creator Seth McFarlane is rumored to be in line to install an IMAX theater in his home. You get a 43'' TV, your neighbor gets a 55'' TV. You get a digital projection screening room, your neighbor gets -- an IMAX Private Theater? For people who want the next status symbol in home entertainment, for $2 million dollars consumers can install their own giant ...
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Governor talks regulatory reform budget at Host breakfast
California Gov. Jerry Brown, seen here projected on a screen at the annual Sacramento Host Breakfast, tells the crowd about building up the state's budget surplus, rather than spending it. He also talked water supply, business climate and CEQA reform. California Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Chamber of Commerce shared some of the same opinions during addresses to the 88th annual ...
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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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Los Angeles voters approve limiting medical marijuana shops
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles, which has more storefront medical marijuana shops than any other U.S. city, will close hundreds of the dispensaries and hike taxes on those that will be allowed to remain under a ballot measure approved by a wide margin of ...
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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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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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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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