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11 января, 2011 02:05
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Mammoth Lakes fears financial ruin after legal judgment
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A sculpture of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area founder Dave McCoy looks out over The Village in Mammoth Lakes. The area is enjoying record snowfall, but civic leaders are concerned about staying afloat in the face of a $30-million judgment against the town that must be paid to a developer. Reporting from Mammoth Lakes, Calif. — An appellate court...
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08 января, 2011 02:11
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Authorities seek identity of men videotaped sexually assaulting disabled women
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One of at least eight men seen in the videos of sexual assaults on at least 10 women who appear to be severely disabled. The Sheriff's Department acquired a computer hard drive from an anonymous source. It contains over 100 hours of video of the women being attacked. There are several locations depicted, but at least one appears to be a residential...
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08 января, 2011 02:11
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L.A. school board expected to appoint John Deasy as next superintendent on Tuesday
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John Deasy, 50, joined Los Angeles Unified School District in August as Supt. Ramon C. Cortines’ top deputy. He's expected to be appointed superintendent in a board session Tuesday. The Los Angeles Board of Education is expected to vote Tuesday to appoint John Deasy as the next superintendent of the nation's second-largest school district,...
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08 января, 2011 02:10
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Most convictions thrown out in Anna Nicole Smith drug trial
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Anna Nicole Smith's manager and companion Howard K. Stern, left, was cleared of all convictions. A judge Thursday threw out all guilty verdicts except one misdemeanor conviction in the drug trial surrounding the death of model Anna Nicole Smith — criticizing a case authorities once heralded as a cautionary tale to doctors too liberal with...
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05 января, 2011 02:26
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From illiterate to role model
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1 2 3 next | single page The metamorphosis is as quick as the turn of a page: John Zickefoose is a hyperactive goose, a laid-back bear, a monkey, a tiger. The children at the Corona Public Library squeal with laughter as the man whose name rhymes with Seuss becomes louder and more animated. There was a time when reading the simple words of...
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02 января, 2011 02:40
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Charter choices: good food, free food, no food
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1 2 next | single page Para Los Niños, a charter elementary and middle school in downtown Los Angeles provides free breakfasts, lunches and snacks, largely thanks to federal government funding. On the menu one recent day: 1% milk, chicken salad, corn and beans, a banana and a whole-wheat roll. At Larchmont Charter School in Los Angeles,...
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02 января, 2011 02:40
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Loving Elvis tender and true
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1 2 next | single page To Koji Yama, there is no icon as American as Elvis. The slicked-back hair. The rock 'n' roll. That swaggering confidence.It's an obsession that has carried this Japanese native 5,500 miles from his homeland and family, and landed him here in California.And starting this year, it's become his livelihood.Stroll into his...
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02 января, 2011 02:40
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Wild predictions way off the mark
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1 2 next | single page The arrival of the new year is traditionally an occasion for making predictions —- often faulty ones, if an expert is doing the crystal-ball gazing.In 1931, for instance, The Times asked several prominent individuals to guess what life would be like in 1981.Sir Oliver Lodge, a British physicist, declared that "science...
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02 января, 2011 02:40
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Mountain bikers are still unwelcome on many L.A. trails
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Not long after mountain bikers spun onto the scene in California in the early 1980s, dustups erupted with hikers and equestrians who found dodging hell-bent-for-leather cyclists on narrow trails unpleasant and at times dangerous.Heeding those complaints, the city of Los Angeles prohibited bicycling of any kind on trails designated for hikers and equestrians....
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02 января, 2011 02:40
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A rocky start to a life of goodness
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1 2 next | single page Danny Brizendine was 2 months and 3 days old when his mother traded him for a cigarette."It was for a whole pack of cigarettes," says Brizendine, now 47.No, it was for a single smoke, corrects Annie Brizendine, the woman who made the trade, took the infant in and later adopted and raised him.It was Oct. 17, 1963, when...
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02 января, 2011 02:39
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Laguna Beach artists struggle to recover from mudslide and flooding
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Laguna Beach artist Marsh Scott, who paints in mixed media and sculpts in stainless steel, says mud and water ruined most of her supplies and works. She says the 1,500-square-foot studio she rents on Laguna Canyon Road was full of mud, 2 feet deep in places. Olivia Batchelder went to sleep listening to the rain crash on her roof, but at a some...
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02 января, 2011 02:39
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Schwarzenegger looks back on his seven years in Sacramento
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1 2 next | single page Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the state Capitol in Sacramento, is about to finish his second and final term as California governor. Reporting from Sacramento — State government was failing at every level. There was an electricity crisis, a water crisis, a prison crisis. Car taxes had tripled. State contracts were...
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02 января, 2011 02:39
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More rain and snow are expected
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The blast of cold air that brought in Southern California's New Year will be followed by a "wet Santa Anas" storm Sunday and Monday that is expected to bring scattered rain showers and more snow in the mountains and heavily traveled passes, weather officials said. A frosty 39-degree morning greeted the thousands of spectators lining Pasadena streets...
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02 января, 2011 02:39
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Rose Parade wows its crowds under clear skies
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1 2 next | single page A color guard leads the way for Honda's entry, "A World of Dreams," in the 122nd Rose Parade in Pasadena. Pasadena's ode to whimsy and imagination unfurled its petals under cold, clear skies, with floral floats featuring a skim-boarding bulldog, a girl and her teddy bear riding a rocket into space and a little pig...
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01 января, 2011 01:44
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Housing authority ends plans to evict protesters
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Activists at the L.A. Housing Authority chief’s Rancho Cucamonga home object to proposed changes in how rental subsidies are classified. Seeking to end a long-simmering dispute with tenant advocacy groups, officials with the Los Angeles housing authority said Thursday that they had agreed to rescind eviction notices sent to a group of renters...
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01 января, 2011 01:44
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DNA links killer to 1974 slaying of Pomona woman
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Barbara Hall was 29 when she was strangled in 1974. DNA links Robert E. Stansbury to her killing. When Robert Edward Stansbury died seven years ago while awaiting execution on San Quentin's death row, some worried that he would take the full extent of his crimes to his grave. Stansbury, an ice cream truck driver, was serving time for raping and...
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01 января, 2011 01:44
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Goodwill store in downtown L.A. to close
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Joyce Jones stands in front of the Goodwill store on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. Jones says everything she is wearing and holding, other than her shoes, was bought at the store. Its prices were low. But in the end, the downtown Los Angeles used-goods shop simply wasn't used enough. That's the reasoning behind the planned closure Friday of...
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01 января, 2011 01:44
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Mexican exiles in El Paso can see their pasts across the river
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1 2 3 next | single page From a viewpoint in El Paso, Ricardo Chavez Aldana looks at his former home across the border in Ciudad Juarez. He was once a radio investigative reporter for Radio Canon in Ciudad Juarez. After gunmen killed his young nephew he fled to El Paso and is unemployed. Reporting from El Paso — They go about their...
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01 января, 2011 01:44
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Price of a traffic ticket going up $4
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California motorists, already in sticker shock over rising fines for parking and traffic tickets, should prepare for more beginning Saturday. The state is adding $4 to the price of every traffic ticket. The fee will pay for emergency air transport services because of a revenue shortfall in Medi-Cal funding. It is set to generate an estimated $34...
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31 декабря, 2010 02:41
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Snow brings a shiver of joy for skiers
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1 2 next | single page With snowy peaks in the background, Chris Martin of Aliso Viejo jogs the trails of Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. A blast of cold air from the North Pole has been a late Christmas gift for Southern California skiers and snowboarders — at least for those hardy enough to brave it. At the 8,200- foot...
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