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Charlie Romero is a small, exotic island just off the east coast of Echo Park, nestled in a sea of tidy bungalows in East L
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Update: Lee got six years behind bars as well as a $20,000 fine. AP.
She's sorry. So sorry.
Lisette Lee, the Beverly Hills woman who used her family's privat
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By Hillel Aron and Jill Stewart
Here's why California citizens today produced new, non-sleazy, non-trickster-y redistricting maps that starkly rejigger how comm
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The U.S.-Mexico border has been shored up with thousands of new agents in what appears to us to be the Obama administration's attempts (and Bush's before tha
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You can often hear West L.A. residents, and those on the nearby Santa Monica border, whining about the rampant homeless-veteran population in their area (which is tr
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The story of the Inland Empire grandmother allegedly caught wheeling body parts down the street in a trash can the other day only gets stranger.
As we told you, the
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You could probably argue that it's the dress that started modern fetishism (although Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover might have had something to say about that). At t
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Snakes, rough terrain and dangerous temperatures aren't the only things you have to look out for in your local federal forest this summer.
For at least the secon
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We, along with Tucson massacre survivor Gabrielle Giffords, were relieved to see NASA's shuttle Endeavor make a safe landing in Florida just after midnight. (Vid
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If you're looking for a home with history, notoriety and layers of patina (genetic patina), look no further than the infamous casa Sheen, which has been put on t
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That U.S. Supreme Court-ordered release of 33,000 California prisoners? Not so bad, says the Drug Policy Forum of California, which argues state lockups have been ov
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One of our main hos on the southeast coast recently interviewed a journalism professor who wrote a book about porn's effect on masculinity and a feminist sex edu
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