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"I initially made the decision to run for governor because I believe that my level of record of public service -- especially on the state budget -- and my willingness to present specific, pragmatic solutions to our most pressing problems would enable...
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Gretchen and Slade from OC.
There have been Real Housewives in Orange County, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. But come-on now, how real can they be if the Bravo reality show hasn't been to housewife heaven -- Beverly Hills?
Af...
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Yesterday, betting on Hollywood hits and misses was just a fake-money game you played. But now putting actual money down on box office winners and losers is not so far away. At least according to the website Hollywood Stock Exchange, which has announ...
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On the third day of the Proposition 8 federal trial in San Francisco, it was tough going for both sides of the big stakes lawsuit over California's gay marriage ban.
For the plaintiffs, who want to overturn Proposition 8, the U.S. Supreme Court's d...
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Woodlawn Cemetery.
Four men accused of murdering a popular man in Santa Monica's Pico neighborhood are headed to trial later this month after a judge deemed there was enough evidence to try them.
The May 11, 2008 discovery of Preston Brumfield's...
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[See our original post about the lawsuit against China here].
Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, which is representing Santa Barbara-based CYBERsitter, LLC in a $2.2 billion lawsuit against China that was announced last week, states that malicious emails th...
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If you've had any doubt about the true reasons for the City Council's multi-year reluctance to rein in the city's burgeoning but largely unregulated (and sometimes shady) medical marijuana trade, all you you had to do was witness Wednesday's City Cou...
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An L.A. Times editorial just says no to a proposal in the legislature that would legalize pot outright, pushing it beyond the charade of getting a doctor's recommendation and allowing healthy people to light up as well. The paper states that the law ...
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Jeff Zucker.
There was a time when publications, mostly of the dead-tree variety, would call for heads of leaders, mostly of the political kind. But in this info-stream era, everyone's an armchair studio chief, and every public figure -- not just ...
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The council remained undecided on what will be perhaps the most-contentious part of the proposed law -- whether 1,000 or even 500 foot buffer zones between the stores and schools, churches and other sensitive community locations should be included in...
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Alex Sanchez, the Los Angeles anti-gang activist accused by federal authorities of diving back into street life and conspiring to commit serious crimes, was granted bail Wednesday, according to Celeste Fremon's WitnessLA.
After two hearings on the m...
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The judge in the trial had proposed allowing streaming the proceedings via YouTube, but the backers of the marriage ban, Prop. 8, argued that having their testimony and likenesses spread all over the web could make them targets of extremists.The tria...
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The Chetwood Hotel.
Police say the 39-year-old suspect arrested in the murder of a 74-year-old Little Tokyo hotel manager was found walking nearby and taken into custody.
Los Angeles police allege Jian Hong Li fatally stabbed 74-year-old resident...
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With the national spotlight on it, the Beverly Hills Board of Education decided to phase out students from outside city limits to attend its schools, with all high schoolers being allowed to complete their educations in the city, but with the rest be...
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The ACLU and an alliance of organizations are suing the county over its administration of the Challenger Memorial Youth Center for youths on probation, where education mandates are ignored and kids are neglected, the groups allege.
The suit contends...
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We're not big fans of victimhood politics, but the testimony of Yale professor George Chauncey at yesterday's Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco showed exactly why a courthouse video feed is so important -- ordinary Americans would have watched Ch...
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The $400-million schools complex at the site of the defunct Ambassador Hotel where Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 will be named in his honor. The Los Angeles Unified School District made no promises about the naming, but it was long ...
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The report, for example, finds that the difference between legal and illegal wages for the state's 1.8 million undocumented amounts to $2.2 billion alone. The wage improvements, the center argues, would result in $1.4 billion in extra income taxes. O...
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The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles Police Department cops, was livid after the ruling, and it has urged Attorney General Jerry Brown to challenge it at the state Supreme Court level, a move he h...
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After some eight months of discussion, Thompson and Madson decided to sell the property to a local business owner who leases space to several other nearby retailers. The Bodhi Tree opened in 1970. Land values in the area have risen dramatically since...
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