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Police investigate home invasion robbery in Sylmar

Three people entered a home in Sylmar and took jewelry and electronics, police said early Wednesday.

DWP Holiday Light Festival in Griffith Park starts Thursday

The 14th Annual Department of Water and Power Holiday Light Festival in Griffith Park will begin Thursday with bicyclists being invited to pedal along the festive pathway between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Supply of water for city to be cut

With assumptions California is headed toward a fourth year of drought, the state Department of Water Resources announced Tuesday that it will only supply local communities with 5 percent of the water they requested for next year.

Couple lead CHP on car chase with kids in the backseat

A man and woman were arrested Monday after leading California Highway Patrol officers on a brief chase in a car with their two children in the back seat, according to authorities and broadcast reports.

Tiger not playing at Thousand Oaks tournament, media says

Tiger not playing at Thousand Oaks tournament, media says

Tiger Woods will not play in this week's Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks in the wake of the weekend car accident outside his Florida mansion, according to published reports.

Tiger not playing at Thousand Oaks tournament, media says

City Council again tackles medical pot access

The City Council will resume talks Tuesday on a proposed medical marijuana ordinance that would let dispensaries sell pot to qualified patients -- even though the city attorney and district attorney insist such transactions would be illegal.

Riverside community mourns for three family members killed on 210 freeway last weekend

A Riverside community was in mourning Tuesday for three members of a family killed over the weekend in a fiery crash on the Foothill (210) Freeway in Sunland as they headed to Oregon to visit relatives.

Lakers to conduct book drive Sunday

The Los Angeles Lakers will hold a drive for new children's books at Sunday's game in connection with their annual Chick Hearn Night.

Parking costs at LAX economy lots increasing

Parking at Los Angeles International Airport economy lots will be a little more expensive beginning Thursday.

UC Board of Regents could help reopen Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital

The University of California Board of Regents will consider a proposal Thursday to partner with Los Angeles County to reopen Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital, the Willowbrook medical center shuttered in 2007 after failing federal inspections.

Chris Brown due before judge for progress report

Chris Brown due before judge for progress report

R&B singer Chris Brown is scheduled to appear before a judge Thursday for a progress-report hearing following his guilty plea to a charge that he assaulted his then-girlfriend, pop singer Rihanna, after a pre- Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

Chris Brown due before judge for progress report

Cops find pot just behind LAPD Topanga Station

Credit police canines, of sorts, for the arrest of three men Wednesday in connection with a warehouse crammed with 850 pot plants. Twenty-five feet behind the LAPD's Topanga Station.

L.A. County home sales up, but prices down

Home sales in Los Angeles County rose by 8.6 percent in October, compared to the same month a year ago, but prices fell by 8.5 percent, a real estate information service reported Tuesday.

Taylor Swift wins CMA entertainer of the year

Taylor Swift wins CMA entertainer of the year

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - It's been Taylor Swift's year, and Wednesday was her night as she became the youngest person and the first solo female act in a decade to win the Country Music Association's entertainer of the year award.

Taylor Swift wins CMA entertainer of the year
Sacrifice of those in battle honored

Sacrifice of those in battle honored

With his Army cap, blue work shirt and jeans, and salt-and-pepper beard, Joseph Esparza hardly stood out in the crowd of thousands that lined Laurel Canyon Boulevard for Wednesday's San Fernando Valley Veterans Day Parade.

Sacrifice of those in battle honored
The Route ends here

The Route ends here

The yellow '32 Ford rolled clunkety-clunk down the Santa Monica Pier on Wednesday, among 66 vintage cars to commemorate Route 66 and a new "End of the Trail" sign.

The Route ends here

Regulators: no proof of grave desecrations at cemetery

State regulators have found no evidence of grave desecrations at Eden Memorial Park as alleged in a class-action lawsuit against one of the nation's largest Jewish cemeteries, officials said.

Jet-age modern

Jet-age modern

The twin parabolas of the LAX Theme Building - once a symbol of a new, high-tech era and now home to the Jetsons-like Encounter Restaurant- are starting to show their age.

Jet-age modern
LAUSD blasts threat on flier

LAUSD blasts threat on flier

Community groups and Los Angeles Unified officials on Tuesday condemned an anonymous flier handed to Latino parents that threatened them with deportation if they supported plans to convert their neighborhood school to a charter.

LAUSD blasts threat on flier

Former shot-caller is now spilling gang’s secrets

08 February 2010

Showing no emotion, a former leader of the Avenues clique testifies about murder, extortion and drug deals. Ailing and in custody, he is vilified by his family, which once terrified a neighborhood. Pancho Real was at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church with his wife and daughter one Sunday in October 2006 when his cellphone rang.

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Suspect in San Diego firebombings arrested in Riverside County

08 February 2010

After allegedly tossing incendiary devices at five targets, the suspect leads authorities on a freeway chase until stopped by a spike strip. No injuries were reported in the firebombings.

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Obama official ‘very disturbed’ by Anthem Blue Cross rate hikes

08 February 2010

The insurer should give a 'detailed justification' for its plan to raise premiums on individual policies by as much as 39%, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urges. California insurance regulators asked Anthem Blue Cross to delay controversial rate increases of as much as 39% for individual policies that have triggered widespread criticism from subscribers and brokers -- and now from the federal government.

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California budget crisis’ teachable moment

08 February 2010

The budget crunch at Cal State is getting so bad, it's forcing some young people to think about a future without a college education. But some students are deciding to study the legislative process.

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For Japan’s cellphone novelists, proof of success is in the print

08 February 2010

One teenager who wrote a three-volume novel on her phone has gone on to sell more than 110,000 paperback copies, grossing more than $611,000 in sales. She likes Care Bears, doesn't wear makeup yet, and took her nom de plume from a character in the Disney classic "Bambi."

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Charlie Sheen charged with 3 felonies in alleged assault on wife in Aspen

08 February 2010

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Coroner: Michael Jackson given amount of anesthetic used in ‘major surgery’

08 February 2010

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Two L.A. firms agree to settle claims linked to ‘pay-to-play’ pension scandal

08 February 2010

Wetherly Capital and Markstone Capital will pay $19 million and adopt a reform code that bans companies from hiring lobbyists to introduce them to public officials who make investment decisions. Two Los Angeles companies that profited from private equity deals with a New York state pension fund agreed to pay a total of $19 million to settle claims arising from an ongoing "pay-to-play" corruption probe.

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Jackson doctor charged with manslaughter

08 February 2010

Prosecutors on Monday charged Michael Jackson's personal physician with involuntary manslaughter in connection with administering a combination of surgical anesthetic and sedatives blamed in the music

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Anthem Blue Cross asked to justify controversial rate hikes

08 February 2010

In a letter to the company, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius voices concern over the rates, which take effect March 1 for many of the insurer's 800,000 individual policyholders. The Obama administration called on Anthem Blue Cross on Monday to justify its controversial new rate hikes of as much as 39% for individual policyholders, saying the increases were alarming at a time when subscribers are facing skyrocketing healthcare costs.

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