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What To Do In Los Angeles The HiddenLA Way
Lynn Garrett knows that loving Los Angeles means looking beyond the stucco facades and traffic pileups, and whatever Hollywood meltdown you saw last night on TMZ. "Los Angeles has a heart that's hidden to most of the world," she says, which is why Garrett ...
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Chicago Teachers Kick Off Three-Day March Against Mass School Closings
Chicago Teachers are taking a stand once again in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to close dozens of schools in low income Chicago communities-this time with ...
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Belly-landing caught on camera at Newark airport
YouTube video shows sparks flying as a plane makes an emergency belly-landing at Newark's Liberty International Airport. Meanwhile, half way around the world in Russia, passengers of another plane had to make an emergency evacuation after the landing gear caught ...
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Analyst O.J. Simpson unlikely to prevail in retrial attempt
O.J. Simpson is arguing he deserves a new trial because his former attorney mishandled the first trial. "There's no writing, there's no smoking gun supporting O.J.'s position," said TODAY legal analyst Lisa Bloom. "He's probably more likely to win Powerball." TODAY's Lester Holt interviews Lisa ...
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Simpson’s ex-lawyer I could not have fought harder
He was once O.J. Simpson's attorney, but on Friday, it was Yale Galanter who was on the defensive, saying he could not have fought harder for his client. "I put every ounce of blood, sweat and soul I had into defending him," Galanter said, as OJ Simpson asks to be granted a retrial. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin ...
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Feds accuse two Sanford brothers of scam involving U.S. Army equipment
U.S. Army and plotted to rip off the government for military equipment, including armor-piecing ammunition, federal officials say.Husein Kermali, 37, and Sikandar Kermali, 33, are suspected of purchasing the power tools from a soldier stationed with the Army Active Guard Reserve in Orlando, Sebastian Stewart Oyegun II.In June, Oyegun signed a plea agreement admitting guilt to a count of theft of ...
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Native American actress proud to walk Cannes red carpet
Candice Glover, a soul singer from rural South Carolina, was named "American Idol", becoming the first female singer to win the television singing competition since ...
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First Rentals Native New York Style
Back to New York for Julio Gomez, 22, center, means an address not in his boyhood Bronx, but in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For Harris Meyers, 21, left, it's the old parental abode in Gramercy Park. For Floy Salembier, 22, it's Peter Cooper Village, many blocks south of her childhood ...
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Yoshitomo Nara Exhibit Surveys His Unique Brand Of Kute Kulture In New York
On the surface, [Nara's works are] pretty damn cute. But Nara has stepped outside that world in a big way, " Byrne wrote in the catalogue essay for Nara's newest exhibition in New York. "The kids and dogs in his pictures and bronzes are defiant, angry, annoyed, and pissed off. They have rebelled against their roots, and their big eyes are cold." The exhibit, on view now ...
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American Idol Who is the shows greatest discovery
"American Idol." Now new victor Candice Glover can start competing with all the contestants who came before her. Her first single, "I Am Beautiful," suggests she is off to a strong start. And the blessing of Aretha Franklin, given on national television, should encourage any young singer. Who are the show's greatest winners? I'd ...
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American engineers death suicide or cyber-espionage
(CBS News) The death of an American computer engineer, Shane Todd, in Singapore has created quite a stir. His parents contend he was murdered, but authorities say it was suicide. The mystery seems to have links to the dark world of cyber-spying and could possibly involve China. Rick and Mary Todd traveled from Montana to Singapore to prove that their son was actually the victim of a web of ...
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Judge denies defense request to photograph Tsarnaev
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to take photographs of their client. Tsarnaev's attorneys had sought permission to take "current and periodic" pictures of him and not be obligated to turn them over to U.S. prosecutors. Magistrate Marianne Bowler said in a written order Friday Tsarnaev's defense team had not proven such images are subject to attorney-client ...
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Canada uneasy about oil-sands byproduct accumulation
A member of the Canadian Parliament said he wants an investigation with the United States into a three-story mound of coke piling up at a refinery in Ontario. The coke is a by-product of the refining of oil sands and has been piling up quickly at the Marathon refinery in Windsor along the Detroit River. "Here's a little bit of Alberta," said Brian Masse, one of Windsor's ...
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Native American tale Jimmy P comes to Cannes with international pedigree
CANNES, France - It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen. The film, an English language one from French director Arnaud Desplechin, made its premiere Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it's among 20 movies competing for the prestigious ...
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Victims Marines failed to safeguard water supply
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -; A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing ...
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Cops investigating after Long Island college student killed
By Frank Eltman Associated Press UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Last Sunday Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University junior studying public relations, posted a recipe for how to prepare July 4-themed strawberries covered in sparkling sugars on her blog. Less than a week later, Nassau County police announced that Rebello, who was with her twin sister Jessica and several other college students inside ...
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The Future of American Health Care
Most Americans will soon begin to see major changes in health care delivery. The changes will likely be mostly negative for the vast majority, but not for everyone. For example, those without health care insurance or with pre-existing conditions should see improvements. But I would bet that many of the young and healthy who have previously chosen not to buy health insurance might not like ...
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Plane makes belly landing at Newark Airport no injuries reported
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News A US Airways flight made a belly landing at Newark International Airport in the early morning hours on Saturday after the plane reported a problem with its landing gear, a spokesman for the airline said.No injuries were reported after Express Flight 4560 landed just after 1 a.m. carrying 31 passengers and three crew from Philadelphia, US Airways ...
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After nearly 30 years Camp Lejeune coming clean
A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing ...
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Will Boy Scouts accept gay youth Vote is imminent
Minnesota appears poised to legalize gay marriage, as the Democratic speaker of the state House said Tuesday that a gay marriage bill endorsed by the governor and likely to pass in the state Senate also now has enough backing in his ...
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New Orleans says gunfire wont end second lines
Two brothers with a history of drug arrests and suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a Mother's Day parade in a New Orleans ...
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Marine daughter seeks dignity for `Devil Dog pups
Federal health officials have determined that water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune exceeded safe levels as far back as August 1953, four years earlier than previous ...
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A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in ...
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No peace pipe Native American tribes on warpath over Keystone XL pipeline
USA Leaders from 11 Native American tribes stormed out of a meeting with US federal officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which they say will lead to 'environmental genocide.' Native Americans are opposed to the 1,179-mile (1,897km) Keystone XL project, a system to transport tar sands oil from Canada and the northern United States to ...
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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback
Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, the Massachusetts man figured he'd dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground. It would be decades before he realized that he had unknowingly contributed to the worst drinking water contamination in the country's history -- and, perhaps, to his own premature death. "It's just a terrible thing," the 58-year-old veteran ...
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California prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
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