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VIDEO: Laurel Canyon Residents ‘Mad as Hell’ at Hillside House-Flipper, Department of Building and Safety

The fuming neighbors along Grand View Drive should really give the rest of L.A.’s neighborhood activists a lesson in how to sway the city to your cause. They just put together this super-impressive YouTube saga, titled “We’re Mad As Hell,” to demonstrate what they consider to be an egregious lack of oversight by Department of [...]

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Betsy Butler, Assembly Candidate for L.A.’s Westside, Spams 8,000 Residents With Weirdest Campaign Paraphernalia Ever

Venice for Change Wait, what? Betsy Butler’s bright idea to attach her campaign flyers to plastic baby bottles must have seemed cute in theory. The current assemblywoman for much of L.A. County’s South Bay area is shooting for finer pastures this November: She wishes to reign over the new citizen-drawn District 50, quite possibly the [...]

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Whitney Houston Funeral: New Jersey Residents Outraged by Cost to Taxpayers

Richard Young/startraksphoto.com Whitney Houston‘s funeral was pretty pricey, much to the chagrin of some taxpayers. It seems the late singer’s hometown, Newark, N.J., spent more than $ 187,000 in police overtime as friends and family gathered in the city to pay their respects to the pop icon back in February. MORE: Rihanna Expresses Interest in [...]

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Dallas Tornadoes 2012: Residents Begin Assessing Damage From Series Of Twisters

ARLINGTON, Texas — The tornado hurtled toward the nursing home. Physical therapist Patti Gilroy said she saw the swirling mass barreling down through the back door, after herding patients into the hallway in the order trained: walkers, wheelchairs, then beds. “It wasn’t like a freight train like everybody says it is,” said Gilroy, who rounded [...]

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Cellphone Tree in Glassell Park Rejected by Some Residents as Not Artsy Enough

CathrynDC ​It’s a data-hungry world, and now we want it wherever we are. Thus cellphone companies have been on a quest to find new locations for its data towers. Not only that, but they’ve had to get creative with how the towers appear. And so the “cellphone tree” — towers made to look more incognito [...]

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SoCal Residents Sue L.A. Sheriff for Seizing Their Cars, Jewelry in $7M Raid of ‘Criminal Ring’

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station via The Signal From a video of the “crime” scene. ​It was one of the finest raids in the history of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. In January 2010, the sheriff’s LoJack vehicle-recovery system located a Bobcat that had been stolen from a cemetery in the Valley. The alert [...]

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SoCal Residents Sue L.A. Sheriff for Seizing Their Cars, Jewelry in $7M Raid of ‘Criminal Ring’

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station via The Signal From a video of the “crime” scene. ​It was one of the finest raids in the history of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. In January 2010, the sheriff’s LoJack vehicle-recovery system located a Bobcat that had been stolen from a cemetery in the Valley. The alert [...]

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Occupy L.A. Sees Homeless Invasion: Skid Row Residents Look For Food

Occupy this tent. ​Occupy L.A. might resemble a homeless encampment outside City Hall, but some are complaining that the real homeless are moving in on the anti-Wall Streeters in order to take advantage of the relatively plentiful food. Lt. Paul Vernon of the LAPD’s Central Division stated over the weekend (via Twitter) that, “Yes, homeless [...]

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Lawrence de-talks 5.0: Residents get to spout off next about drug center

Lawrence de-talks 5.0: Residents get to spout off next about drug center LAWRENCE — The last two expert witnesses testifying in favor of the proposed 38-bed Sunrise Detox Center elicited groans from 50 affected residents by asserting the plan is “an inherently beneficial use” of a vacant medical office building at 100 Federal City Road. [...]

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Texas Wildfires: Last Of Fire-Weary Central Texas Residents Allowed To Return Home

BASTROP, Texas — Officials say the last of thousands of central Texas residents forced to flee a massive and devastating wildfire have been allowed to return to their homes. Bastrop County Judge Ronnie McDonald said Thursday that the wildfire that burned about 50,000 square miles and killed two people is about 75 percent contained. The [...]

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‘L.A. Noire’ Glitch Plays Out Modern-Day Fantasy of Hollywood Hills Residents (VIDEO)

Sightsee if you dare. ​Tension has been building for years between tourists scrambling up narrow streets and trails to pay homage to the iconic Hollywood sign, and angry residents who thought they’d moved to the surrounding Hills to escape the neon signs and exhaust fumes (and, ironically, tourists) below. “This neighborhood just wasn’t built for [...]

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Deportations Halted for DREAM Act Students, Moms With Babies, Crime Victims, Longtime Residents (and Pretty Much Everyone Else)

OK, fine. You can stay. ​Coming out of the closet party, anyone? After three years of insisting he had no power to do so, Obama (or, more specifically, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano) has ordered the courts to sift through over 300,000 pending deportation cases and throw out the low-priority ones. This basically [...]

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