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Expo Line Opening Date Is April 28: Two Years Behind Schedule And $292 Million Over Budget

Juan Ocampo/ Metro The La Cienega station on the Expo Line ​At long last, we have an opening date for the Expo Line, the $ 932 million project that will connect the Westside to the city’s light-rail network. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced this morning that the line will open to La Cienega Boulevard on Saturday, [...]

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Some Southern California Beaches Could be 4 Feet Underwater in 18 Years

imagebysp ​Pull back, David Geffen, pull back! Whoever thought it was a good idea to build houses on the edge of the crashing surf in Malibu wasn’t thinking long-term. (He was thinking hot tubs and bikinis, obviously. Or, in Geffen’s case, infinity pools and man-thongs). A new report from Climate Central says Southern California can [...]

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Home Video Of Challenger Explosion Surfaces After 26 Years

While the 1986 explosion of the Challenger space shuttle happened more than a quarter of a century ago that hasn’t stopped new footage from surfacing. In 1986 Jeffrey Ault, a NASA enthusiast filmed the shuttles disastrous launch from the Kennedy Space Center viewing site just 10 miles from the point of launch. While two other [...]

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LAUSD Principals Furious at Superintendent Deasy for Demanding They Dig Up Years of Teacher-Misconduct Complaints

Ready, set — find the sex offenders! ​LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy, who oversees nearly 670,000 campuses as head of the nation’s second largest school district, got some more great press today from the Los Angeles Times. Despite the overall horrificness of the Miramonte sex scandal (turned districtwide sex scandal) of 2012, the Times has been [...]

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Academy Award Winners Haven’t Included Latino Actors, Nonwhite Actresses in 10 Years

Halle Berry in ‘X-Men: The Last Stand.’ ​Only days after the voters behind the Academy Awards were revealed as extremely white (94 percent), male (77 percent) and old (media age, 62), the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center issued a report indicating that Oscar winners seem to reflect the body. The brief, “Not Quite a Breakthrough: [...]

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New Hampshire Republicans Trying To Stab Obama In Back With Law They Supported 12 Years Ago

Category: Politics Author : James Johnson Posted: February 24, 2012Tags : Barack Obama, new hampshire, President Obama New Hampshire’s Republican party are attempting to divide the country against President Obama by attacking him over a bill that gained bipartisan support in the state 12 years ago. In 2012 a law was passed in the state [...]

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‘Downton Abbey’ Season 2 Finale Scores Highest PBS Ratings In Years

While it may not have been the Granthams strongest season , the Season 2 finale of ” Downton Abbey ” earned PBS its highest overnight ratings since 2009′s “Ken Burns National Parks,” as 5.4 million people tuned in to find out whether star-crossed lovers Mary and Matthew would actually end up together. “Downton’s” ratings were [...]

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Nestle Earnings Call Q4 2011: Last Year’s Sales Beat Hopes, But 2012 Will Be Tough

GENEVA — Nestle SA, the world’s biggest food and drinks maker, managed to brush aside the impact of a soaring domestic currency to post a solid increase in profits in 2011 as sales rose strongly, particularly in developing countries. However, the maker of Nescafe, Perrier, Jenny Craig and Haagen Dazs accompanied its full-year statement on [...]

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Extreme Weather Affected Four in Five Americans in Recent Years, Report Finds

Category: Health, Science Author : Kim LaCapria Posted: February 16, 2012Tags : climate change, extreme weather, extreme weather climate change, extreme weather global warming, global warming In recent years, extreme weather has become both a topic of discussion as well as a major concern- and it seems the likelihood of tornadoes, floods and other catastrophic [...]

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Bobby Brown invited to Whitney Houston’s funeral; Adele isn’t taking five years off (The Sleuth)

Bobby Brown has been contacted about attending Whitney Houston’s funeral Saturday , sources tell ABC News. TMZ reported that members of Houston’s family had objected to Brown attending the service, which will be by invitation only, but ABC’s source called this “inaccurate.” Brown is in California with his daughter, Bobbi Kristina , who has been [...]

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Anna Nicole Smith’s Death Five Years On: Timeline of a Tragedy

Scott Suchman/Getty Image Hard to believe it’s been five years since the death of Anna Nicole Smith. And not just because every year since has been chock-full of headlines—both good and bad—that keep the memory of the infamous Playmate, reality star and, lest we forget, mother alive. In honor of the anniversary of the tragic [...]

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Barefooot Bandit Sentenced to Six Years in Prison [Video]

Category: News Author : Dan Evon Posted: January 27, 2012Tags : barefoot bandit, colton harris moore, the barefoot bandit The Barefoot Bandit is heading to prison. Colton Harris-Moore was sentenced today to six-and-a-half years in prison for a string of thefts and burglaries that spanned the United States. The Barefoot Bandit gained international fame when he [...]

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