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The adult industry's health services arm last night lifted a voluntary work stoppage for porn, saying all of those who had "worked" with a performer who tested positive for HIV have come up negative.
See also: Porn Star Cameron Bay's HIV+ Status Con...
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Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Venetian and Palazzo hotel-casinos in Las Vegas, has been a bitter political enemy of President Obama, sinking millions into efforts to unseat him.
But when Obama's Department of Justice had Adelson's casino...
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Kids, you think you're slick, but you're not. Those same social networks you use to tell your faithful about the upcoming party are the same ones being monitored by L.A. County sheriff's deputies.
And they're not coming to twerk. They're coming to b...
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Rick Monday, Steve Rogers in 1981 NLCS
With the national media revisiting last year's Dodgers-Red Sox blockbuster trade ad nauseam this past weekend -- and with the club honoring Rick Monday with a flag-saving bobblehead tonight at Chavez Ravine ...
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The man who had repeatedly been accused of assaulting women either got away with it or was a frequent target of false reports.
See also: Joe Francis Convicted of Assaulting Woman After Hollywood Club Outing.
This time, however, Joe Francis of the G...
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There's a scene in the movie Drive where Ryan Gosling's character takes Carey Mulligan's character for a leisurely lift down a half-pike of concrete. Dried up and ugly, it's the bed of the L.A. River, where--in theory--copious amounts of flowing wate...
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We received a lot of hate mail after San Pedro topped our recent list of "L.A.'s 5 Surliest Neighborhoods."
Let's get a few things straight. It was all in jest! We love San Pedro, from your Fish Market to your Lobster Festival, from Ports O' Call Vi...
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Sure, California has its share of globally recognized universities, including Stanford, Caltech and UC Berkeley. But do we have schools that offer reasonable tuition rates (or at least some help paying for school) and a sense of social consciousness?...
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If you ever wondered why Lindsay Lohan repeatedly returned to her nightlife haunts despite warnings from judges and others to tone it down, this might explain it. Allegedly.
New research from UC Berkeley and UCSF for the first time documents immedia...
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Pitting the OGs against the gentrified, the brown girls against the white, the Eastside and the Westside, the cholos versus the hipsters, it's the lawsuit you've all been waiting for.
See also: Eastside vs. Westside: 5 Ways of Looking At It.
Lawyer...
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See also: Marijuana Dispensary Crackdown by Feds in Echo Park, Westlake, Long Beach.
Except that it's congress that makes the law. And now Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on the Judiciary, wants Obama's Attorney General...
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The end-of-summer Labor Day holiday DUI crackdown across Los Angeles county is still in its early days, but already there has been an increase in arrests, sheriff's officials said over the weekend.
See also: DUI Hit-&-Run Takes Life of Covina's Arma...
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The June 18 crash of Michael Hastings took the life of a talented but troubled journalist. As Gene Maddaus' excellent feature in the latest issue of LA Weekly demonstrates, people around the L.A.-based writer were truly concerned about his state of m...
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So, without further ado, please put your hands together for...Rico Gagliano co-created and co-hosts American Public Media's The Dinner Party Download, the public radio arts-and-culture show broadcast on stations around the country -- and produced her...
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A suspected drunk driver rammed into a car at an estimated 90-plus miles-per-hour, killing a man, police said.
See also: L.A.'s Hit-and-Run Epidemic Gets National Coverage From ABC's 20/20.
The motorist and a passenger fled but two others stayed pu...
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The author in high school.
After the jailer took custody of my shoestrings, I found myself locked inside the "gay cell" at the Hollywood Division station on Wilcox Avenue. It was around 3 a.m., and I had just blown way past the legal limit on a br...
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Updated at the bottom with a lengthy response from Davis, including his disagreement with a few of the assertions presented in our piece. First posted at 4:32 p.m.
Bill Davis, president and CEO of Southern California Public Radio, which includes pub...
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The DWP building
Brian D'Arcy is the worst political strategist in Los Angeles. D'Arcy is the head of IBEW Local 18, the once-formidable union that represents 90 percent of the employees at the L.A. Department of Water and Power. Those employees ...
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The conservative Kansas brothers who sunk billions into the effort to defeat President Barack Obama's reelection run have apparently pulled out of the running to own the Los Angeles Times.
For many in ultra-liberal L.A., ownership of the paper by Ch...
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Sydney Leathers today vehemently denied that she could have been exposed to HIV as part of her porn debut.
See also: Sydney Leathers Could Have Been Exposed to HIV in Porn Debut.
The website Gawker yesterday surmised it was possible because Leather...
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