Suspected pipe bomb found at South L.A. high school
Police evacuated a South Los Angeles high school Wednesday after an apparent pipe bomb was discovered in a school restroom. School police spotted the device in a first-floor bathroom at year-round...
View ArticleLamar Odom plays defensive role in USA's tuneup win over Greece
The U.S. easily defeated Greece, 87-59, in Athens on Wednesday in the team's last tuneup before the FIBA World Championship starts on Saturday. Lamar Odom, the only Laker on the USA squad, started and...
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It's a grind: Aybar gets a day off in wake of 'mental mistake'
Shortstop Erick Aybar was not in the Angels' lineup for Wednesday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays, in part because he lost track of the number of outs in the second inning Tuesday night, a mistake...
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Joe Miller, Alaska's GOP front-runner, inflames readers
Though Sarah Palin left Alaska at the altar when she resigned as governor, the former politician appears to still have some sway over her home state. Joe Miller, the Republican whom Palin endorsed for...
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Nazi-era Nuremberg documents moving from Huntington Library to National Archives
The Nuremberg Laws -- a set of Nazi documents from 1935 that bears the signature of Adolf Hitler -- is moving to a new home. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens said...
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Metrolink to offer $200-million settlement to victims of deadly Chatsworth...
Metrolink and its former commuter train operating contractor will offer $200 million to victims and survivors of the 2008 Chatsworth rail disaster under a plan expected to be filed in federal court as...
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Elin Nordegren breaks her silence; Tiger Woods responds
In her first (and allegedly last) on-the-record interview, Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren speaks out on the apocalyptic scandal she's suffered over the past months with the cheating golf pro....
View ArticleL.A. schools chief vows to use evaluation data to help teachers
L.A. schools chief Ramon C. Cortines talked about revamping teacher evaluations as a tool for helping teachers improve as part of his final, annual address to administrators Wednesday morning at...
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Ambient beatmaker yuk plays Low End Theory, premieres exclusive MP3
Little is known about yuk. He's one of the linchpins of the Dublab- and Low End Theory-affiliated My Hollow Drum collective. His Myspace page is private and biographical information is scarce. All that...
View ArticlePanel approves Tani Cantil-Sakauye's nomination for chief justice of...
A state commission Wednesday unanimously approved the nomination of Tani Cantil-Sakauye as the next chief justice of California, a critical step in making the appeals court justice the first nonwhite...
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Giant panda cub is born at Vienna zoo
Giant panda mother Yang Yang is nothing if not consistent. Three years to the day from the birth of Fu Long, her last cub, Yang Yang gave birth Monday at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo to a cub keepers...
View ArticleAnthem Blue Cross allowed to move ahead with rate hikes
California insurance regulators cleared the way Wednesday for Anthem Blue Cross to implement scaled-back rate hikes after a previous rate increase was canceled amid an uproar over its size. Anthem...
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Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth break up (because no one saw this coming)
Our lovely little Miley Cyrus is almost 18, and like so many her age, she's having a bit of -- how did Britney Spears so eloquently put it? -- that "not a girl, not yet a woman" thing. Which means, of...
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