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  KPCC's Bill Davis Not Reelected to NPR Board of Directors

  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...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 23, 2013 @ 7:26 pm

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  Brian D'Arcy Is the Worst Political Strategist In Los Angeles

  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 ...

  @ The Informer by Gene Maddaus on August 23, 2013 @ 4:51 pm

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  Koch Brothers Don't Want The Los Angeles Times

  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...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 23, 2013 @ 3:30 pm

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  Sydney Leathers: "I Do Not Have HIV"

  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...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 23, 2013 @ 2:34 pm

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  Stick a Fork in the NL West, It's Done

  Clayton Kershaw Let's get something straight right now. You cannot jinx a pennant. You can't jinx a division either. You cannot jinx a no-hitter by sharing it with your audience it in a broadcast, and you most certainly can't jinx a no-no by talk...

  @ The Informer by Howard Cole on August 23, 2013 @ 2:18 pm

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  Marijuana: DEA Bans Armored Cars From Picking up Pot Shop Cash

  Medical marijuana is legal in California, but the combination of valuable drugs and what is often a cash-only business can attract some rough characters. That's why some dispensaries use armored car companies to get their money to and from their fav...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 23, 2013 @ 1:56 pm

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  Summer DUI Crackdown: Checkpoints in Hollywood, South L.A., More

  An end-of-summer drunk-driving crackdown is in full swing. The LAPD, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, and nearly 100 other local police are on the hunt for motorists under the influence. And they'll be on it until the end of the Labor Day holid...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 23, 2013 @ 10:02 am

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  Sick of Street Closures? DTLA Flea Market Battles LAPD Over Road Rights

  Tired of seeing street closures, from film shoots to neighborhood fairs to farmers markets, around every other corner? A lot of businesses and residents in downtown Los Angeles are too, at least according to what police say. So there's been some pus...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 23, 2013 @ 9:04 am

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  Sydney Leathers Could Have Been Exposed to HIV in Porn Debut

  See our latest: Sydney Leathers: "I Do Not Have HIV." The woman at the center of the latest Anthony Weiner sexting scandal might have been exposed to HIV on-set as part of her foray into porn. Sydney Leathers' debut adult video, "Weiner and Me," wh...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 23, 2013 @ 8:06 am

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  'We the Parents' Premieres in Beverly Hills

  Panelists at last night's "We the Parents" premiere. We the Parents, the new documentary about California's cutting-edge Parent Trigger law, premiered in Beverly Hills last night, with an expert panel discussing the ups and downs of Parent Trigger...

  @ The Informer by Patrick Range McDonald on August 23, 2013 @ 7:00 am

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  Porn Star Cameron Bay's HIV+ Status Confirmed by Additional Tests

  The porn star who initially turned up positive for HIV took "confirmatory tests" that prove she has the virus, the adult industry's lobbying group, the Free Speech Coalition, said tonight. See also: Porn Production Likely to Shut Down as a Result of...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 22, 2013 @ 9:06 pm

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  Mayor Eric Garcetti Trumpets Victory on New Contract With DWP Workers

  Eric Garcetti and city officials announce a new DWP contract. Mayor Eric Garcetti today announced the first significant accomplishment of his young administration, a new contract with the Department of Water and Power union. The deal, which was l...

  @ The Informer by Gene Maddaus on August 22, 2013 @ 7:17 pm

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  Teen Wooed on Facebook Was Pimped by Mother-Son Team, Feds Say

  In a first for us, prosecutors say they busted a pimping operation that involved a mother and son working together. An indictment handed down by a federal grand jury today alleges that Long Beach's Joshua Jerome Davis, 22, and his mom, Sharilyn Kae ...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 22, 2013 @ 4:54 pm

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  Stromberg's Fake Banksy Mural Goes Viral

  L.A. gets so giddy over street art these days that the possibility of a new Banksy mural gracing our fair city went positively viral in recent days. Of course, in Hollywood, everything is not as it seems. This Banksy is a fraud! The New York Times g...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 22, 2013 @ 11:09 am

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  L.A.'s Hit-and-Run Epidemic Gets National Coverage From ABC's 20/20

  See also "L.A.'s Bloody Hit-and-Run Epidemic." Los Angeles' hit-and-run crisis, which L.A. Weekly's Simone Wilson first exposed last year, has now gotten national attention. On Friday night, the ABC news show 20/20 will air a segment about L.A.'s h...

  @ The Informer by Patrick Range McDonald on August 22, 2013 @ 10:53 am

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  L.A. Guard Dog Trainer Accused of Starving Canines

  He's the one guy you'd expect to love and care for dogs. But prosecutors allege that Charles Ferguson, owner of J.R. Ewing Guard Dogs, abused his pooches. Ferguson, who denies the allegations, goes on trial today, and the Society for the Prevention ...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 22, 2013 @ 10:08 am

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  NIMBYs and Hitler: Readers Respond

  Paul Teetor's critique of Ben Urwand's new book taking on Hollywood's supposed pact with Hitler, The Collaboration, drew raves last week ("Hindsight in Hollywood," Sept. 13). Scottzwartz writes, "Urwand's book is actually worse than no book, as it...

  by L.A. Weekly readers on September 19, 2013

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  How the Hollywood Fault Made Millennium's Future Uncertain, and L.A. a Laughingstock

  Note: An unedited version of this story was inadvertently published online on Sept. 18. This is the edited version. See factual correction at end. The Los Angeles City Council rushed through its approval of the Millennium skyscrapers in Hollywood ...

  by Gracie Zheng on September 19, 2013

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  What's With the Attitude? L.A.'s 5 Surliest Neighborhoods

  We all know you think your neighborhood is the best, especially if you live in one of the hipster zones such as Venice's Abbot Kinney area. Yes, your grocery store is full-on organic, the local dog park is to die for, and Yelp lists a dozen hot food...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 22, 2013 @ 9:09 am

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  Porn's HIV Case Didn't Originate On-Set

  The porn industry's lobbying group said last night that a performer who has initially turned up positive for HIV did not contract the virus on-set. As the Free Speech Coalition set out to ease fears of an STD outbreak, its leader, CEO Diane Duke, sa...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on August 22, 2013 @ 8:03 am