Outside cash prominent in L.A. school board races

Outside spending is dominating campaigns for three seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education, surpassing $4.4 million through...

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Chinatown landmark named for pioneering jurist

He was the first Chinese American graduate of Stanford Law School and the first Chinese American judge to be appointed to the...

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Las Vegas Strip shooting suspect is arrested in L.A.

A man suspected in a deadly car-to-car shooting in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip was arrested Thursday at a Studio City apartment...

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Eric Garcetti showed political savvy during busy student years

Fourth in a series of articles focusing on key periods in the lives of the mayoral hopefuls.Ben Jealous still recalls walking...

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Cost of San Onofre nuclear plant outage exceeds $400 million

The parent company of Southern California Edison, operator of the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant, reported that the costs...

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Mahony answers questions under oath about clergy sex abuse cases

A "relatively unflappable" Cardinal Roger Mahony answered questions under oath for more than 3 1/2 hours Saturday about his...

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Paroled sex offenders disarming tracking devices

SACRAMENTO — Thousands of paroled child molesters, rapists and other high-risk sex offenders in California are removing or disarming...

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Bell jury is handed the fates of six onetime civic leaders

Before jurors left the courtroom to deliberate, the prosecutor took a final shot at the six former City Council members accused...

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Eric Garcetti's role in L.A. budget fixes is in dispute

Pressed in the race for mayor of Los Angeles to say how he would fix a persistent budget gap that has led to the gutting of...

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Bulgari shows off Liz Taylor's gems

It isn't easy sometimes to be an ordinary person in Los Angeles, so near to and yet so far from the city's glamorous events.You...

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Woman's body found in water tank of skid row hotel

For days, residents of the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles believed something was amiss. At least one said there was flooding...

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UC Irvine professor stops teaching online course in dispute

A UC Irvine professor has stopped teaching midway through a massive online course in microeconomics offered through the Coursera...

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Major donor to GOP helping L.A. mayoral candidate Kevin James

Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Kevin James crossed paths just once.It was an intimate cocktail...

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Hollywood directs its star power toward a campaign closer to home

A stylish crowd waited beneath a flashing marquee outside the Fonda Theatre. "Appearing tonight!" the sign read. "Eric Garcetti...

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San Bernardino County sheriff details final shootout with Dorner

Fugitive Christopher Dorner spent his final hours barricaded inside a mountain cabin armed with a high-powered sniper rifle,...

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Deputy killed in Dorner standoff was 'fun,' 'boisterous' new dad

Jeremiah MacKay was a regular at Liam's Irish Pub in Colton.He always had a pint of Guinness and a smile, said Yara Alves, the...

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Couple recounts harrowing Dorner ordeal

Fugitive former police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner was apparently holed up inside a Big Bear area condo for as many as...

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Dorner manhunt leads to deadly standoff

When authorities hemmed in the man they suspected of killing three people in a campaign of revenge that has gripped Southern...

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Metrolink executive quits after report cites accounting problems

A high-ranking Metrolink executive resigned over the weekend following a scathing report that revealed accounting irregularities,...

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