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Teachers removed for calling OJ Simpson, Rodman and RuPaul black heroes
9:25 AM on 03/04/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three Los Angeles elementary school teachers accused of giving children portraits of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul...
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Gary Coleman hospitalized after another seizure
3:38 PM on 02/26/2010
Gary Coleman is being treated at a Los Angeles area hospital after suffering a seizure on the set of TV's The Insider on Friday, the show reports...
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Lawyer: Michael Jackson's doctor to surrender Friday
10:15 AM on 02/05/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - After waiting all week to face a likely charge of manslaughter, Dr. Conrad Murray and his frustrated legal team plan to surrender at a Los Angeles courthouse...
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Exhibit celebrates indelible imprint of blacks on history
9:45 AM on 02/01/2010
From The LA Times - History depends on who's doing the telling. When I was her age, people of color were asterisks, not narrators. Tomorrow's version will depend on today's storytellers...
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Latinos and blacks in Calif. more likely to die of H1N1 than whites
11:16 AM on 01/15/2010
From the LA Times - Latinos, blacks and Native Americans in California have been more likely to die from swine flu than whites. Other states are studying the trend as well...
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94-year-old Los Angeles barber can still cut it
10:03 AM on 01/11/2010
Past the iron-mesh security door and the empty, 20-foot-long vinyl waiting bench, Elvie Lewis gives his ancient barber's chair a slap...
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Four California teens team up to succeed at college
5:28 AM on 01/06/2010
From LATimes.com When Keymarian Washington was in eighth grade, he was shot at while hanging out with gang members on a Pasadena street. By Bruce Palmore's sophomore year, his father feared that his son's poor grades and lack of motivation meant he would never finish high school, much less make...
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Snoop Dogg is off-field savior for high school football team
8:38 AM on 12/18/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Snoop Dogg is more than a rapper -- he's a football inspiration. Crenshaw High School's team is undefeated this season...
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Caught on tape: Double car crash
4:24 PM on 12/11/2009
VIDEO - A news camera was rolling when a speeding car plowed into a wreck already blocking part of a busy Los Angeles freeway early this morning...
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Ice Cube directs L.A. Raider documentary for ESPN
10:00 AM on 11/30/2009
The same man that said the infamous line, "Stop giving juice to the Raiders...cause Al Davis ain't never paid us" on "Wrong N*gga To F*ck With" is doing just that...
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Los Angeles seeks $3.2 million reimbursement for Michael Jackon memorial
1:22 PM on 11/16/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Los Angeles city attorney plans to seek reimbursement of the $3 million the city spent for the Michael Jackson memorial...
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Police: Mike Tyson charged with battery in scuffle at LA airport
8:07 AM on 11/12/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police are investigating conflicting accounts of an airport scuffle between Mike Tyson and a photographer that resulted in both men being booked...
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One-stop barbershop offers health care with haircuts
7:42 AM on 11/10/2009
VIDEO - Most of us would rather get a haircut than go to the doctors, which is exactly why those worried about the health of African-American men brought the action here...
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LA Clippers owner pays millions in discrimination suit
3:28 PM on 11/03/2009
Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald Sterling has agreed to pay a record $2.725 million to settle allegations by the government that he refused to rent apartments to Hispanics, blacks and to families with children...
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FBI conducts gang sweep in southern LA
3:40 PM on 10/22/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- More than 1,100 FBI agents and police officers spread out through South Los Angeles, banging on doors before dawn Thursday...
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UCLA student pleads not guilty to slashing classmate
8:35 AM on 10/14/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A UCLA student charged with slashing a classmate's neck during a chemistry lab brought a concealed, six-inch kitchen knife into the class and stabbed...
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Young woman's disappearance baffles police, family
11:57 AM on 09/25/2009
VIDEO - Last week, Mitrice Richardson entered an exclusive Malibu restaurant alone and was later arrested after she couldn't pay her $89 bill...
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NFL linebacker Shawne Merriman accused of beating Tila Tequila
5:13 PM on 09/09/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Merriman was arrested early Sunday after Tequila accused him of choking and throwing her while she was at his suburban San Diego home...
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Coroner: Drugs killed Jackson
5:05 PM on 08/28/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Jackson's death was a homicide caused primarily by the powerful anesthetic propofol and another sedative, the coroner announced Friday
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Mother-in-law humor is no joke for L.A. comedian
1:50 PM on 08/25/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Take my mother-in-law -- please," isn't a joke you're likely to hear often these days from Sunda Croonquist.
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Lesbian sgt. discharged after police outed her to Air Force
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