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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 05:02
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Investigation into former L.A. airport commissioner finally ends

After years of being under scrutiny, no charges have been filed against Ted Stein, who served during the Hahn administration. He now wants the city to pay his legal fees. Two law enforcement agencies have closed their investigations into former Los Angeles Airport Commissioner Ted Stein, a figure in the...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 04:02
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Investigation into former L.A. airport commissioner finally ends

After years of being under scrutiny, no charges have been filed against Ted Stein, who served during the Hahn administration. He now wants the city to pay his legal fees. Two law enforcement agencies have closed their investigations into former Los Angeles Airport Commissioner Ted Stein, a figure in the...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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Investigation into former L.A. airport commissioner finally ends

After years of being under scrutiny, no charges have been filed against Ted Stein, who served during the Hahn administration. He now wants the city to pay his legal fees. Two law enforcement agencies have closed their investigations into former Los Angeles Airport Commissioner Ted Stein, a figure in the...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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L.A. tax measures could be a tough sell on Nov. 4

With so much economic uncertainty, voters are telling politicians they're unsure they can handle an additional financial burden. With rising unemployment, falling home values and a sinking stock market, four Los Angeles city and county tax increases on the Nov. 4 ballot have become a tougher sell than some...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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Outlook is dismal for L.A.'s future budgets

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says the city's shortfall could surpass $400 million next year, forcing slashes to services. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa offered a bleak financial forecast for city government over the next two years on Saturday, warning that deep cuts to services and other...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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Slaying suspect Kazuyoshi Miura returns to L.A. in custody

The Japanese businessman is being held pending arraignment on conspiracy charges in the 1981 death of his wife. Four Los Angeles police detectives returned Friday from Saipan with a Japanese businessman they had just taken into custody in connection with his wife's slaying 27 years ago in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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Leland Wong gets 5 years in 'pay to play' corruption scandal

Wong was a Los Angeles commissioner for more than a decade. He used his influence during Mayor James Hahn's administration in seeking city deals for Evergreen, a Taiwan-based shipping company. A judge on Friday sentenced onetime Los Angeles city commissioner Leland Wong to five years in state prison,...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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Mountain areas under red flag warning for high fire danger

The warning, which affects areas of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, stems from a low-pressure system moving in from the north, bringing dry winds and lower humidity. The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning of high fire danger for the mountain areas of Los Angeles, Santa...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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The Dunbar in South L.A., once a landmark, has lost its beat

The hotel that once was the pride of the black community and resting spot for jazz greats is now in decay as it houses low-income tenants. Its future is riddled with uncertainty. In 1957, Jimmy Steward graduated from high school in El Dorado, Ark., which had piney woods and pretty promenades left over from...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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Officials identify motorcyclist killed on Glendale freeway

Vincent Martin, 30, was shot early Wednesday. Detectives are still trying to determine whether the shooting or a crash is to blame for Martin's death and whether he was part of a biker gang. A motorcyclist who was fatally shot on a Glendale freeway was identified today as Manuel Vincent Martin, a...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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Baseball ratings are high in L.A.

In the Los Angeles market, Angels-Red Sox on TBS got a 9.3 rating, competitive with ABC's popular "Dancing with the Stars" (13.8). The Angels' season may have ended Monday night when they lost to the Boston Red Sox in their division series, but television's biggest loser was "Monday Night Football."
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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UCLA's basketball team is already dealing with injuries

Coach Ben Howland says freshman guard Jerime Anderson and junior forward Nicola Dragovic are ailing. He adds that swingman Michael Roll has no pain from foot injury that plagued him last season. While other local college basketball coaches were telling jokes and ribbing each other, UCLA's Ben Howland spoke seriously about his...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 03:02
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UCLA, USC draw attention in college basketball

The Bruins are ranked as high as No. 4 in the nation in some publications and are the heavy favorites to win the Pacific 10 Conference. The Trojans are considered a top 25 team. All of a sudden there it is -- the invitation to the John R. Wooden Award Tip-Off luncheon at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 02:02
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Outlook is dismal for L.A.'s future budgets

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says the city's shortfall could surpass $400 million next year, forcing slashes to services. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa offered a bleak financial forecast for city government over the next two years on Saturday, warning that deep cuts to services and other...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 02:02
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Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura is found dead in jail cell

He had just been extradited to Los Angeles to face conspiracy charges in the murder of his wife in 1981. His death is called an apparent suicide. Bringing a dramatic conclusion to a nearly three-decade-long international crime saga, a Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered 27...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 02:02
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Griffith's land gift just keeps on giving

Many Angelenos were skeptical of the colonel's motives when he donated the parkland that bears his name. Col. Griffith Jenkins Griffith insisted he wasn't trying to buy back the public's favor when he offered to donate money for an observatory nearly two decades after he gave Los Angeles the land for the...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 02:02
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L.A. FASHION WEEK: THE FANTASY EDITION

With Smashbox Studios and IMG parting ways, doesn't a major revamp of the city's big design event seem in order? Yeah, we thought so too. THE BIRTHPLACE of haute denim and home to red carpet events that beam celebrities in designer gowns into millions of homes from Burbank to Belfast, Los Angeles is unique...
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Los Angeles 13.Oct.08 02:02
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UCLA receiver Terrence Austin has strained neck, concussion

He returns home with the team this morning after being released from the hospital. EUGENE, Ore. -- UCLA receiver Terrence Austin returned to Los Angeles with the team early this morning after tests revealed he suffered a strained neck and concussion during the Bruins' 31-24 loss to Oregon on Saturday night.
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