| 17 Dic 2008 |
Sheriff slashes number of deputies going to Obama inauguration
Los Angeles Times -
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies will be on hand to police President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration -- although in much smaller numbers than initially hoped. The county's Board of Supervisors narrowly voted today to send 112 sheriff's deputies to carry out...
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| 17 Dic 2008 |
Suspected Avenues gang members charged with murder
Los Angeles Times -
Two suspected Avenues gang members were charged today with capital murder in the shooting of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Juan Abel Escalante outside his parents’ home. Carlos Javier Velasquez, 24, the alleged gunman, and Guillermo Hernandez, 20, were charged...
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| 17 Dic 2008 |
Final numbers on Proposition 8 show a solid win
Los Angeles Times -
The final numbers are in on Proposition 8, and they show the ballot measure than banned gay marriage in California won in 43 of California's 58 counties. AP has more numbers and details: Final election results show that 599,602 more...
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| 17 Dic 2008 |
L.A. freeway projects in jeopardy because of state fiscal mess
Los Angeles Times -
Some prized Southern California freeway projects -- including the long-awaited widening of the 405 Freeway through the Sepulveda Pass -- are in jeopardy along with other state projects funded by bonds. The Times' Evan Halper and Jordan Rau have details:...
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| 17 Dic 2008 |
LACMA proposes merging with troubled MOCA
Los Angeles Times -
Confirming weeks of rumors, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced that the Board of Museum Associates, the nonprofit that operates the county museum, has presented a plan to the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art for...
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| 17 Dic 2008 |
Ramon Cortines is named LAUSD superintendent*
Los Angeles Times -
*Updated at 5:04 p.m. The Los Angeles Board of Education today named Senior Deputy Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, one of the country’s most experienced and respected educators, head of the nation’s second-largest school system. Cortines replaces retired Navy Vice Admiral...
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| 17 Dic 2008 |
Mourners -- including some lookalikes -- say farewell to Bettie Page
Los Angeles Times -
Legendary pinup model Bettie Page was remembered at a private memorial service Tuesday as someone who, according to her agent, "was well aware that she was by some standards the most beautiful woman on the planet -- she was proud...
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| 17 Dic 2008 |
Most clicked-on stories sometimes hard to figure
Los Angeles Times -
How much significance can we really read into the most clicked-on latimes.com stories in 2008? Hard to say, but it's interesting fun. Do we love David Foster Wallace more than, say, George Putnam? Sarah Palin fashion over Barack Obama fashion?...
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| 17 Dic 2008 |
Audit finds improvements at L.A. airports
Los Angeles Times -
A new audit of Los Angeles World Airports found that its management and operations have improved during the past decade, but significant challenges remain related to emergency preparedness, spreading the future growth in air travel from busy LAX to regional...
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| 17 Dic 2008 |
Brentwood parents worry about guns, anger and a neighbor
Los Angeles Times -
Residents of Brentwood rarely see a phalanx of police cars, a swarm of officers and one of their schools on lockdown. But earlier this month, a man allegedly brandished a loaded pistol near Kenter Canyon Elementary School, leaving residents and...
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| 10 Dic 2008 |
Judges differ as Troy Davis seeks new trial
Atlanta Journal Constitution -
Federal judges weighed Tuesday whether condemned inmate Troy Davis has presented enough evidence to stop his execution. Last month, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta halted Davis's scheduled execution the third time his life was spared shortly before he was to
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