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The good news is that there were fewer hate crimes in Los Angeles County last year, according to just-released figures from the L.A. Hall of Administration. In fact, the number of such crimes was the second-lowest in 23 years.
The bad news:
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Best Adult Store
The Pleasure Chest
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Father's Office
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The L.A. City Council has created a new law in search of a problem. In this case, the problem is valet parking. You know, the scourge of a town with fewer and fewer spaces and plenty of high rollers who don't mind having Mexicans find them one.
Yest...
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Joe Moller has been a controversial head of downtown L.A.'s monthly Art Walk. Earlier this year he appeared as a contestant on Bravo's Millionaire Matchmaker and said, "I would expect to get a blowjob" on the first date. That ruffled a few feathers.
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An El Segundo cop was being called a hero this week after he jumped into a burning car to rescue the woman inside.
It was such a dangerous move that Officer Armando Rodriguez was still in the hospital after he suffered from minor burns and smoke inh...
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Don Mattingly, Davey Lopes at Tuesday's workout
I attended the team workout at Dodger Stadium this morning, primarily to photograph the players going through their paces in preparation for Thursday's National League Division Series opener in Atla...
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The DWP building
Mayor Eric Garcetti said he was shocked last week after learning that the L.A. Department of Water and Power cannot account for $40 million it has spent on two labor-management training institutes.
Though Garcetti voted to fun...
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Santa Monica Airport wasn't really built for jets. But the airport's location on the moneyed Westside has made it a hub for billionaires and Hollywood elites who rock multimillion-dollar private aircraft.
See also: Fiery Crash at Santa Monica Airpor...
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That buzz about a possible Banksy show in Los Angeles this month turned out to be false, it would seem.
The British street art superstar says on his website that he will conduct an "an artist's residency on the streets of New York." And a tweet toda...
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Sheriff Lee Baca has always been a little strange, but he's 71 now, and his eccentricities are becoming more pronounced with age. Among his more out-there ideas is his fixation on living to be 100 years old.
How's he going to do that? So glad you ...
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The L.A.-area offices of the U.S. Geological Survey, the primary folks responsible for earthquake information in Southern California, have cleared out.
Literally.
The federal government's shutdown has forced the workers to head home, a USGS repres...
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If we told you there was a strip mall in L.A. where guys could spend the day actually, really, truly enjoying the retail environment without moping around, pretending to shop, and checking their smartphones while sitting on the nearest bench, you'd p...
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The American war on drugs has cost taxpayers at least a trillion dollars. For decades, it has put away mothers and fathers, husbands and daughters, giving the United States one of the highest incarceration rates in the world.
Then-President Richard ...
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A Beverly Hills-adjacent compound that once belonged to Dawn Steel, who is considered the first female studio head in Hollywood, could be yours for just $34.5 million.
Sounds like a lot, but it was once listed for $55 mil. And it's zoned as an "eque...
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Palmdale's city election in November cannot go forward, a judge ruled today.
A statement from the plaintiff's legal firm said the election was blocked because the municipality has failed to comply with the California Voting Rights Act: The plaintiff...
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City Hall last week lost a court battle over the LAPD's decision to generally avoid imposing a law requiring 30-day impounds on cars belonging to unlicensed drivers.
See also: LAPD's Impound Policy For The Undocumented Overturned.
A judge said the ...
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A 22-year-old transgender woman is the latest fatality in L.A.'s hit-and-run epidemic.
See also: L.A.'s Bloody Hit-and-Run Epidemic.
Pedestrian Keymontae Mackenzie was killed in an early-morning collision over the weekend on Santa Monica Boulevard ...
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Andre Ethier
With their original center fielder out for the year -- and the "Matt Kemp is made of glass" bashing having already commenced -- the Dodgers need understudy Andre Ethier to play now more than ever. And he will play. Ethier will play b...
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Updated at the bottom with a federal official saying the fuselage probably won't be accessed until later today, tonight even.
A Santa Monica development company said today that its president and his son were indeed believed to have been aboard the p...
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You people approved the publicly funded high-speed rail line that's slated to take us from Southern California to the Bay Area ... some day.
See also: $100 Billion Bullet Train.
But following a comedy of run-ups, including a more than doubling of p...
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