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Funding OKd for light-rail station in Leimert Park
After years spent fighting for a light-rail station in Leimert Park, South Los Angeles community members got their wish Thursday with the approval of full funding for a stop in the heart of L.A.'s African American community. To cheering and applause...
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Arts, Arts and Culture, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Mark Ridley-Thomas
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Metro board approves Crenshaw Line's Leimert Park Village station
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved $80 million for an underground train station in Leimert Park Village along the Crenshaw Line, ending two years of uncertainty over the station's future. The motion, sponsored by L.A....
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Eric Garcetti, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Mark Ridley-Thomas
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GODSMACK: Sully Gets Own Guitar
Godsmack frontman Sully Erna is the latest musician to get his own signature guitar.
Gibson's Sully Erna Les Paul Studio model is ebony black with a Godsmack sun emblem on the body...Tags: Robyn, Little Richard, Apollo Theater, Rise Against (music group), Guy Fieri
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L.A. Now Live: Can Garcetti's grand goals match reality?
Despite Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti's lofty rhetoric during the campaign, Los Angeles City Hall could quickly bring him crashing back to earth, with real-life struggles about to unfold over employee salaries, overtime pay and city spending overall. Join...Tags: Eric Garcetti, Local Elections
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Eric Garcetti faces tough tests when he takes office as mayor
In the campaign for mayor, Eric Garcetti spoke grandly about a city with plentiful summer jobs for low-income teens, a tunnel under the traffic-clogged Sepulveda Pass and even an end to homelessness. But a day after winning office, the mayor-elect faced...
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles Police Department, Career and Workplace, Paul Koretz, Wendy Greuel
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Overlooked by politicians, low-wage workers barely scrape by
Last week, I visited a South Los Angeles woman whose story should embarrass us. It's a story that's not uncommon, and deserves the full attention of the next mayor of the city. Alicia, whose full name I'm withholding because she's afraid her boss...Tags: Politics, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Los Angeles Hotels, Elections, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Centerpiece of remodeled LAX terminal named for Villaraigosa
The centerpiece of the modernized Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles Airport will be named in honor of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa because of his contributions to airport development. The city's Board of Airport Commissioners...
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Rentals
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Turnout appears small as L.A. votes for new mayor
Though turnout numbers were not yet available from election officials Tuesday afternoon, voters were few and far between at many polling places across the city. Tuesday's contest -- where L.A. will determine its next mayor, city controller and city...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Voting, Politics, Elections, Polls
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Oceanside man sentenced to six months for stealing Marine gear
SAN DIEGO -- A former civilian contractor at Camp Pendleton was sentenced Monday to six months in prison followed by six months' house arrest after pleading guilty to stealing medical equipment meant to be shipped to forward-deployed Marines, including...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Theft, Broken Bones, Justice System
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Michael Jackson paranoid, anxious, obsessive, director says
Five days before he died, Michael Jackson was in such a sorry mental state that the director of his ill-fated “This Is It” concert series said he needed a psychiatric evaluation. Kenny Ortega sent the June 20, 2009, email to Randy Phillips,...
Tags: Psychiatrists, Michael Jackson, Conrad Murray, AEG, Health and Medical Professionals
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Dead monkey, elephant meat and reptile purses seized at LAX
In what even U.S. Customs officials are describing as a “weird” week of sorts, border protection officers seized nearly half a pound of exotic meat, a dead primate and hundreds of handbags made with reptile skin coming in from Nigeria....
Tags: Wildlife, Nigeria, Conservation, Endangered Species, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Letters: Election billboard ads may backfire
Re "Billboard firms play big role," May 16 The big billboard companies are at it again. These major uglifiers of Los Angeles are demanding the right to install new digital billboards. Presumably to help them with their suit against the city, they have...Tags: Politics, Elections
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