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Glendale Unified, police settle suit over racial profiling
L.A. NOWThe ACLU of Southern California announced Wednesday that it had reached settlements with the city of Glendale and the Glendale Unified School District on behalf of eight Latino students who alleged officials engaged in racial profiling and illegal... -
Fullerton coach, fiance died of multiple gunshot wounds
L.A. NOWA college basketball coach and her fiance who were found shot to death in the parking garage of their Irvine condominium complex Sunday night each died of multiple gunshot wounds, the Orange County coroner's office reported Wednesday. Autopsies have been.... -
Review: Up close with Dirty Projectors at the Troubadour
A restlessly experimental art-rock band from hipster-choked Brooklyn, Dirty Projectors wouldn’t seem to be the type of act likely to engage in the music-industry showboating that defines the week-long run-up to the Grammy Awards. And yet there was...
Tags: Music, Emmylou Harris, Axl Rose, Dirty Projectors (music group), Mariah Carey
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Taft classroom shooting: Heroic effort prevents further violence
L.A. NOWAuthorities praised the heroic actions of school officials that prevented further bloodshed after a 16-year-old student at Taft Union High School near Bakersfield burst into a classroom Thursday. He allegedly shot a boy in the chest and attempted to fire.... -
91-year-old home burns in Hancock Park
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles Fire Department was battling a blaze at 200 S. Muirfield Road in Hancock Park, where fire had fully engulfed the attic of a 91-year-old home, according to authorities. The home's occupants escaped the two-story, 5,000-square-foot home... -
Santa Monica trailer park lawsuits seeks $50 million from city
L.A. NOWOwners of Santa Monica’s Village Trailer park have filed a lawsuit against the city after the City Council reversed course on plans to replace the park with a massive mixed-use development. In court papers filed this week, owners of the...... -
Former legislator Sheila Kuehl to run for Westside supervisor seat
L.A. NOWFormer state lawmaker Sheila Kuehl has announced plans to run for the Westside Los Angeles County Supervisor seat held by Zev Yaroslavsky when he leaves office in 2014.... -
Garcia leads in fundraising for L.A. school board
L.A. NOWThe early money leader in the race for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education is school board president Monica Garcia. Financial data released Thursday show that Garcia raised $174,288 last year, far outdistancing the combined total of four...... -
Jessica Chastain -- queen of the box office
Liz Smith"LOOK, IT works best if you just make me the hero!" said the great Gary Cooper to a screenwriter struggling with his plot. This is from a wonderful book, "The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood" by David Thomson. SPEAKING OF heroic figures on film,...Tags: Jane Leeves, Movies, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Rita Moreno, Helen Mirren
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In the Kindle era, a bookstore hangs on
A long time ago, some poor writer took on the task of novelizing the screenplay of the Burt Reynolds-Dyan Cannon private eye movie "Shamus," filmed in a Hollywood age when leading men had chest hair and big mustaches instead of sallow vampire skin and...
Tags: Authors, Books and Magazines, Vampires (supernatural entitiess), Arts and Culture, Books
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‘Amazing Spider-Man’: Dan Slott talks Peter Parker’s fate
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comPeter Parker's never had the best of luck — last year, the little he had finally ran out when Brian ...... -
Maurice Herzog dies at 93; French mountaineer
Maurice Herzog, a French mountaineer who became a hero to his country in 1950 when he and a fellow climber became the first men to successfully scale a peak of more than 26,000 feet, has died. He was 93. Herzog, who wrote a best-selling account of his...
Tags: Authors, Frostbite, Francois Hollande, International Olympic Committee, France
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