Missing Actor Stahl Checks Into Rehab
(Los Angeles, CA) -- Missing "Terminator 3" actor Nick Stahl has resurfaced -- in rehab. The actor's wife, Rose Murphy, tells E! News her husband checked in to a treatment facility Saturday night, a day after Stahl reportedly reached out to friends via e-mail to say he was okay ...Read More
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Suspects Held In Student Murders Near SC
(Los Angeles, CA) -- An AV resident and a Los Angeles man are being held in connection with the April 11th murders of two Chinese graduate students near the USC campus. The LAPD says police detectives, FBI agents and federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives officials surrounded a home in south Los Angeles early Friday and arrested 20-year-old Bryan Barnes ...Read More
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Amazon Cashes In On Sales Tax Deal
(San Bernardino, CA) -- After years of fighting it, Amazon.com will start collecting sales taxes from California customers this fall and will cash in at the same time. The giant online retailer is opening order fulfillment centers in San Bernardino and Patterson that will each employ one-thousand people ...Read More
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Disney Co. Now Biggest Employer In OC
(Anaheim, CA) -- With the nearly-completed five-year expansion of Disney's California Adventure, the Walt Disney Company has hired 23-hundred additional employees at the theme park plus another seven-hundred elsewhere around the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim ...Read More
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Cash-Strapped Crystal Cathedral Ministries May Move Into Nearby Catholic Church
(Garden Grove, CA) -- The Crystal Cathedral is short of money and just barely managing to pay its bills. However, the "Orange County Register" reports the church has seen an uptick in attendance now that it has returned to traditonal services following the exit of Pastor Sheila Schuler Coleman ...Read More
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LAO Says Deficit May Be Bigger Than 16-Billion
(Sacramento, CA) -- California's budget deficit might actually be almost one-billion dollars bigger than Governor Jerry Brown's updated estimate of 15-point-seven-billion dollars. The state Legislative Analyst's Office said Friday that Brown underestimates incoming revenues by 900-million dollars ...Read More
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Audit Shows Increase In LAFD Response Times
(Los Angeles, CA) -- An audit of 9-1-1 response times by the L.A. City Fire Department found an increase of 12-seconds after budget cuts took hold in 2009. L.A. City Controller Wendy Greuel says her audit also showed the area most impacted by slower response times was the San Fernando Valley which had a 20-second increase ...Read More
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Mayor Seeks To Hire 50 More Part-Time Parking Enforcement Officers
(Los Angeles, CA) -- More parking enforcement officers are wanted in Los Angeles. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is asking for 50 additional part-timers to write parking tickets. In his budget proposal, Villaraigosa says the additional officers would bring in an additional 40 million dollars to the city's coffers ...Read More
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Mila Kunis' Alleged Stalker Charged With Violating Restraining Order
(Los Angeles, CA) -- A 27-year-old man accused of stalking actress Mila Kunis is facing more charges for allegedly violating the terms of a restraining order. Stuart Lynn Dunn is scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom today following his latest arrest ...Read More
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Four Accused Of Robbing Third Street Promenade Apple Store
(Los Angeles, CA) -- Police arrested four people in connection with a break in a the Apple store at Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade. The four are accused of ripping off about 31-thousand dollars worth of merchandise in the May 9th burglary ...Read More
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Seven Deputies Suspected Of Membership In Secret Clique On Leave
(Los Angeles, CA) -- Seven Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies suspected of membership in a secret clique have been placed on leave with pay. A source tells the "Los Angeles Times" that members of the so-called "Jump Out Boys" allegedly celebrate shootings, promote a hyper-aggresive policing style and sport matching, gang-style tattoos ...Read More
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Downtown L.A. Rail Junction Has "Serious Design Flaw"
(Los Angeles, CA) -- A rail junction in downtown Los Angeles linking the Blue Line route to Long Beach with the Expo Line to the Westside has a serious design flaw that could cause trains to derail. ...Read More
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