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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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Conan O'Brien.
Rumors are circulating in Hollywood that NBC is scrambling to find a guest host to fill in for Conan O'Brien on Tuesday's Tonight Show. Earlier today O'Brien issued a statement rejecting NBC's proposal to move his show to 12:05 a.m....
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Conan O'Brien.
Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien rejected NBC's proposal to have his Tonight Show start a half hour later as a result of the resurrection of a Jay Leno late-night program to start at 11:35 p.m., calling the the proposed move "destruc...
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It's nice to know where the anti-same-sex-marriage-law backers are coming from in the challenge to Prop. 8 being heard in San Francisco this week. Indeed, on Tuesday they seemed to put their cards on the table by invoking Christianity, Jesus Christ, ...
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Carnac the Magnificent, as played by Johnny Carson.
If you're a perennial, SoCal, top-down kind of driver, you might want to plan to go hard-top for this one: NASA confirmed last fall that a good-sized asteroid, called Apophis, is on a collision c...
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A young woman was fatally shot as she was sitting in a parked car with friends. Grecia Del Real, 19, was one of four occupants in the car. According to police reports, suspects pulled up alongside the vehicle in the 3000 block of East Olympic Boulev...
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A man who was assaulted in Hollywood on New Year's Eve died of his injuries. According to police reports, Jesus Cruz, 36, was partying at the Club Temple bar when he left around 12:50 am to get something to eat at a nearby taco stand at 1075 North W...
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The Los Angeles Police Department and its historic struggles to transform its relationship with the city's ethnic communities is the focus of an ABC documentary to air Sunday.
The one-hour doc by Pierre Bagley, called LAPD ... Transforming the Dream...
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The first day of the federal trial to overturn Proposition 8 started in San Francisco yesterday, with attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, who want to end the gay marriage ban in California, first pulling on the heartstrings and then following it up...
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As blogdowntown's Eric Richardson illustrates, the grass in front of the HQ is brown and Palm trees are limper than Hugh Hefner at a brunette convention. The blog reports that the grass got trampled during a Nov. 7 fundraising gala for the Los Angele...
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Facing a near $20 billion state deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is holding health-care and programs for needy children hostage in an effort to get the federal government to kick in nearly $7 billion.
Of course, don't call it a bailout. Under Sch...
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Federal authorities say sometime Los Angeles-area resident James Murphy, 44, was linked to the 2006 crime last year via DNA evidence and that he was nabbed in Texas. The U.S. Attorney's office states that Murphy tried to blow up a multi-million dolla...
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Does New Jersey really want to give these people legal pot?
We can hear the taunting from clear across the country already: "Hey California -- we got your medical marijuana right here!" That's right, they do. While the city of Los Angeles is grapp...
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On Thursday KCET's SoCal Connected (8 p.m.) will air an investigation of the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA) that found ultra-low fines for on-the-job worker deaths ($350 in once case) and an organization so unders...
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As the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked streaming video of the district court challenge to California's gay marriage ban (Prop. 8) from appearing on YouTube, the Times' respected Supreme Court reporter David Savage put the term "traditional mar...
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Defenders of the law, Prop. 8, argue that such a video presence could scare its witnesses and notes that a few had already dropped out of the trial under the threat of having their faces and anti-gay sentiments spread throughout the internet. They re...
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Controller Wendy Greuel and Councilwoman Janice Hahn joined the fight to get the state to stop raiding local taxes to help solve its budget mess, with the pair endorsing a California ballot initiative that would outlaw the practice.
Organizers are g...
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