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posted on
July 14th, 2012
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Willis Edwards, LA civil rights leader was 66

Willis Edwards, part of the Robert F. Kennedy for president campaign in Los Angeles in 1968 and later a key member of the Tom Bradley adminsitration at City Hall, died today of cancer. He was the l ...

posted on
July 7th, 2012
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Eli Broad gives Deitch a vote of confidence, says MOCA is fine

In an op-ed in the Sunday L.A. Times aimed at defusing the controversy over curator Paul Schimmel's departure, museum patron Eli Broad expresses his support for the direction the Museum of Contempo ...

posted on
July 7th, 2012
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Anze Kopitar brings the Stanley Cup home to Slovenia

Anze Kopitar's privilege to spend 24 hours with the Stanley Cup might be a tad more meaningful for him than for some of the other Los Angeles Kings. He left Slovenia as a teenager to live in Canada ...

posted on
July 7th, 2012
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Uh-oh: restraining orders for San Fernando's dating pols

The small but curiously interesting city of San Fernando has slid one more step into the bizarro world. Both of the City Council members who last year were reveled to be dating sought and received ...

posted on
July 6th, 2012
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Lakers acquire Steve Nash from the Suns

Even though Nash is 38, the basketball media is calling the longtime star with Phoenix the point guard the Lakers need to stay competitive the next few years. Nash says he got Kobe Bryant's blessin ...

posted on
July 6th, 2012
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Journo jumps from Daily Journal to Warren Olney

David Houston, editor of the Los Angeles Daily Journal, sends Evan George off to "Which Way, LA" and "To the Point." Plus a promotion at the legal daily.

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posted on
July 5th, 2012
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Protester who smacked LAPD cop sentenced to jail

It's a plea deal for Brian Mendoza, the May Day demonstrator who was caught on video

whacking LAPD officer Mandee Duyanen on the back of her helmet with a snare drum. ...

posted on
July 5th, 2012
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Michael J. Ybarra, journalist was 45

Michael J. Ybarra, a freelance writer from Los Angeles who had a regular gig writing about extreme sports for the Wall Street Journal, died in a fall while mountain climbing in the Sierra Nevada. read more about "Michael J. Ybarra, journalist was..."

posted on
July 3rd, 2012
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Andy Griffith, actor was 86

Griffith died Tuesday morning back home in Manteo, North Carolina. He received a Tony acting nomination for "No Time for Sergeants" on Broadway in 1955, before going into movies and on TV ...

posted on
July 3rd, 2012
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Felix to run 100m in London; Dara Torres retires

Los Angeles sprinter Allyson Felix got the last spot in the 100 meters race at the London Olympics when her training partner, Jereba Tarmoh, decided not to take part in a special runoff race arrang ...