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Entry3:35 PM on September 17, 2013"Los Angeles is home to more Olympians than anywhere in the world, and has twice hosted the summer Olympic Games," said Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.
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Entry12:45 PM on September 16, 2013If more timber is harvested in Oregon, it puts a greater burden on California and other neighboring states to meet the federal conservation requirements to keep endangered species alive, says a group opposing the bill.
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Entry5:10 PM on September 11, 2013L.A.'s Mayor announced the overhaul of the board last month amid heated talks over a labor contract covering 90 percent of employees at the city-owned utility.
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Entry4:30 PM on September 10, 2013Photo: waltarrrrr/Flickr/Creative Commons License A Los Angeles City Council committee cleared four mayoral nominees on Monday to join the Board of Water and Power Commissioners. The Energy and Environment Committee signed off on Mayor Eric Garcetti's slate of appointees to...
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Entry4:05 PM on September 10, 2013"It's hard for us to encourage people to bike and walk, when our streets are treated like the Wild West," said Eric Bruins, planning and policy director for the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition.
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Entry7:00 PM on September 4, 2013Photo: Duffernutter/Flickr/Creative Commons License Two Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion today calling for a citywide halt to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking -- a process that uses a pressurized water mixture to release oil or natural gas from...
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Entry12:05 AM on August 15, 2013More than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex weddings to resume in California, the state's highest court today rejected the last remaining legal challenge to the unions.
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Entry11:50 AM on August 6, 2013Daily mosquito monitoring by the Los Angeles County West Vector Control District suggested the need for closing the preserve.
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Entry10:32 AM on July 29, 2013The company has only three products, all of them red, hot and inside bottles with the distinctive rooster trademark.
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Entry4:43 PM on July 26, 2013After months of drought, Los Angeles is now experiencing what the National Weather Service calls the fourth-wettest July since records began being kept in 1877.
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Entry1:39 AM on July 24, 2013Former Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education member Nury Martinez defeated former Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez in Tuesday's special election to fill L.A.'s Sixth District City Council seat.
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Entry2:55 PM on July 23, 2013"I think it's an issue of letting people know that even though we are 3,000 miles away, this incident has affected the city of L.A.," said Bernard Parks.
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Entry10:32 AM on July 23, 2013Residents who have gone without a voice on the L.A. City Council for six months will choose between a school board member and a former assemblywoman in a special runoff election today.
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Entry5:17 PM on July 16, 2013The First Unitarian Church of L.A. was the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit filed today challenging the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' communication records.
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Entry9:15 AM on July 16, 2013On Monday evening, a mob of around 150 split from a Leimert Park prayer vigil and rally and went on a rampage, damaging a few businesses, assaulting people, vandalizing cars, and blocking traffic, police said.
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EntryPosted Trayvon Martin: Local Leaders Call for Peaceful Protests, U.S. Attorney Mulls Federal Charges
in News1:33 PM on July 15, 2013"Violence does nothing to help Trayvon and the Martin family get the justice they deserve and only distracts from the thousands of Americans who have signed petitions urging that the Justice Department pursue federal charges." -
Entry1:10 PM on July 15, 2013Eric Garcetti decided Sunday, "out of an abundance of caution," to head back to Los Angeles.
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Entry8:47 AM on July 15, 2013Community leaders plan to lead a "prayer rally" at Leimert Park tonight in the aftermath of George Zimmerman's acquittal at his murder trial for the slaying of Trayvon Martin.
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Entry11:05 AM on July 14, 2013An estimated 300 to 400 demonstrators marched onto the 10 Freeway and stopped traffic for about an hour in protest of the George Zimmerman verdict.
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Entry2:12 PM on July 12, 2013The restrictions require fire pits to be kept at least 700 feet away from the nearest residence.
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Entry1:18 PM on July 12, 2013The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced today it has settled a two-year fight over water rights with the Mammoth Community Water District of Mammoth Lakes.
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Entry2:30 PM on July 11, 2013The $6 million suspension bridge would link equestrians and bicyclists in Atwater Village to 56 miles of horse trails in Griffith Park and the Los Angeles River Bikeway.
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Entry6:03 PM on June 28, 2013A federal appeals court lifted a stay it had placed on the unions while the battle over Proposition 8 was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Entry2:48 PM on June 28, 2013The Justice Department today announced preliminary agreements with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department to make broad changes to policing in the Antelope Valley and enforcement of Section 8 housing.
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Entry10:48 AM on June 10, 2013The death toll from Friday's shootings went up to five Sunday morning as a young woman who was shot with her father died at a Westwood hospital.
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Entry9:45 PM on June 7, 2013They were killed in a rolling wave of violence that began late this morning in Santa Monica. Police shot and killed the suspect at Santa Monica College. Police originally said seven people died.
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Entry5:32 PM on June 7, 2013They were killed in a rolling wave of violence that began late this morning in Santa Monica. Police shot and killed the suspect at Santa Monica College.
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Entry2:46 PM on June 7, 2013Garcetti can solicit up to $250,000 in gifts, and each donor can give a maximum of $10,000.
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Entry5:30 PM on June 4, 2013The declaration by county officials will waive regulations that might otherwise hinder recovery efforts.
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Entry12:12 PM on May 22, 2013Galperin, 49, is an attorney who sits on two volunteer city commissions, one focused on revenue efficiency and the other on quality and productivity.
No recommendations yet.
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Entry3:35 PM on September 17, 2013"Los Angeles is home to more Olympians than anywhere in the world, and has twice hosted the summer Olympic Games," said Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.
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Entry12:45 PM on September 16, 2013If more timber is harvested in Oregon, it puts a greater burden on California and other neighboring states to meet the federal conservation requirements to keep endangered species alive, says a group opposing the bill.
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Entry5:10 PM on September 11, 2013L.A.'s Mayor announced the overhaul of the board last month amid heated talks over a labor contract covering 90 percent of employees at the city-owned utility.
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Entry4:30 PM on September 10, 2013Photo: waltarrrrr/Flickr/Creative Commons License A Los Angeles City Council committee cleared four mayoral nominees on Monday to join the Board of Water and Power Commissioners. The Energy and Environment Committee signed off on Mayor Eric Garcetti's slate of appointees to...
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Entry4:05 PM on September 10, 2013"It's hard for us to encourage people to bike and walk, when our streets are treated like the Wild West," said Eric Bruins, planning and policy director for the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition.
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Entry7:00 PM on September 4, 2013Photo: Duffernutter/Flickr/Creative Commons License Two Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion today calling for a citywide halt to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking -- a process that uses a pressurized water mixture to release oil or natural gas from...
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Entry12:05 AM on August 15, 2013More than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex weddings to resume in California, the state's highest court today rejected the last remaining legal challenge to the unions.
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Entry11:50 AM on August 6, 2013Daily mosquito monitoring by the Los Angeles County West Vector Control District suggested the need for closing the preserve.
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Entry10:32 AM on July 29, 2013The company has only three products, all of them red, hot and inside bottles with the distinctive rooster trademark.
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Entry4:43 PM on July 26, 2013After months of drought, Los Angeles is now experiencing what the National Weather Service calls the fourth-wettest July since records began being kept in 1877.
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