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 Winona Ryder’s spokeswoman said that the 37-year-old actress was taken to the Hillingdon Hospital in west London after she had fallen ill during a flight from Los Angeles to London. The spokeswoman added that it was a "precautionary measure" and Ryder was discharged after a short time.The spokeswoman also confirmed the fact...
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China has deported all 10 of the pro-Tibet activists it arrested for protesting or helping to organize protests during the Beijing Olympics, releasing them before the end of their 10-day detention following pressure from the US embassy in Beijing, a US-based Tibet rights group said Monday.
"All 10 have been deported. They were...
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The glamour of Yelena Isinbayeva brought a smile back to China's face when the Russian competed in the Olympic pole vault just hours after local icon Liu Xiang limped out of the Games with an Achilles tendon injury.
Isinbayeva was the star on a night in which Kenya retained its 3,000m steeplechase domination from world champion Brimin...
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Compared to the two earlier editions - at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 - the beach volleyball tournament at the Beijing Olympics will have to settle for bronze.
But it will not be for lack of effort from Chinese organizers, who set up a 14,150-square-metre temporary site for competition with all comfort for players, media and sponsors...
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This day in Olympic history: August 12.
1984 - Carlos Lopes wins the marathon for Portugal at the Los Angeles Games. It was his country's first-ever Olympic gold medal and he won it in an Olympic record time of two hours nine minutes and 21 seconds.
Lopes had originally wanted to become a footballer, but his father did not like the...
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On Sunday, an unfortunate crash
killed four people and blocked a few traffic lanes of Interstate 10 for several
hours. The California Highway Patrol reopened those about 12.30.
Heather Hoglund, CHP spokesperson
Officer, states access slopes on the westbound Santa Monica Freeway at Western Avenue carry
on being closed but the...
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The American actor Will Smith,
39, and his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, 37, are establishing a new Los Angeles school whose
teaching method is scientology.
Some of the New Village
Academy professors are church
members and the teaching methods developed by the religion's initiator will be
used. Despite this, religion will...
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 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it has established a rules change that could affect who gets nominated in the Best Original Song and Best Foreign Language Film Oscar categories. This could result in the foreign-language film category becoming more inclusive and the original song category becoming more...
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the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include economist Adam Smith in 1723; Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1878; English economist John Maynard...
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the 120th day of 2008 with 246 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863; bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke"...
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 Attacks and violence have been reported in rural areas
between activists for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and
militant supporters of President Robert Mugabe.
Robert Mugabe, who was the leader of Zimbawe for 28 years,
is accused by the Zimbawe’s opposition that he has led a campaign of violence
since the...
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 In order to preserve Tibetan culture, the only thing that China has to do
is to apply existing laws on cultural autonomy. Formally, China’s
constitution guarantees minorities the freedom of thought, expression, assembly
and religion. All 55 of China’s
minoriy groups should have the same rights. Even though more than 150...
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 Maria Shriver, wife of the
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and member of the Kennedy family,
endorsed on Sunday Illinois Senator Barack Obama for US president, in a rally
that took place in the Pauley Pavilion at the University of California, Los
Angeles. Her decision comes a few days after her husband,...
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 According to a government report released this morning the
rate of close calls between aircraft on the ground approached record highs in
recent years at Los Angeles International and airports around the nation. LAX
also recorded one of the largest total numbers of serious runway incursions.
The findings come despite much-touted...
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Hollywood star Nicole Kidman said Tuesday her acting career may be over as her focus shifts to family and a second child with fellow Australian Keith Urban.
"I'm in a place in my life where I've had some great opportunities, but there are many things I want to do besides act," the 41-year-old Oscar winner said. "In...
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 More and more studies have shown that the main product contained in fast-food meals is corn. The studies went deeper into the problem and found, by searching some products, that the food items in McDonald’s and Burger King contain corn. A. Hope Jahren, a professor of geography and geophysics at the University of Hawaii, the author of the...
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 The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to ban for at least one year new fast-food restaurants in one of the town's poorest areas, this way taking measures against increasing obesity rates.If approved by Mayor Antonia Villaraigosa, the ordinance would put a one-year moratorium on construction of new fast-food eateries in a...
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 Southern California stores began
to take serious measures on Tuesday and started pulling jalapeno peppers from
their shelves, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.
The vendors’ actions came one day after maintaining the
peppers on market in spite of the fact that the Food and Drug Administration declared
on Monday that the...
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The California Supreme Court prepares to decree that physicians
have no constitutional right to refuse medical care to gay people, as violation
of religious beliefs has nothing to do with their profession. The Court’s
initiative came on Wednesday, as a consequence of a prior event. Some doctors
refused to provide artificial...
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 Almost seven years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. emergency rooms are allegedly not prepared to deal with a dire situation like a suicidal bomb, as a report from the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee brings out.
The survey included seven major cities (New York, Los Angeles, Washington,...
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After a few tragic cases in which people died after being
treated with heparin, the Food and Drug Administration requires the American
Congress to extend the sum it assigns to the activities necessary for
inspecting foreign drug shipments in the U.S., the Los Angeles Times reports.
Heparin is frequently used during kidney...
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 A new study has highlighted huge differences in Medicare spending, as well as in the care it funds, when it comes to chronically ill patients, mostly seniors, and the disabled. Three states spend much more to take care of their elderly: New York, New Jersey and California.However, the outcome, at least in terms of survivability, is not...
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 A U.S.
new study found that combined hormone therapy is likely to increase the risk of
abnormal mammograms and breast biopsies.
The combined
hormone therapy involves a combination of estrogen and progesterone (the main
female hormones) and it is used very often by post-menopausal women.
Unfortunately, in more than one in 10...
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 A new study
conducted by a team of researchers at the University
of California, Los Angeles, showed that men need a really
helpful Internet tool in order to take the appropriate decisions when it comes
to prostate cancer. The web tool, developed by the study’s main author Dominick
L. Frosch and his team, proved to be a helpful...
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 Just a few days
after the Los Angeles city attorney had sued Health Net over illegally canceled
policies, the Californian health care company was ordered to pay no less than
$9.4 million in damages and expenses for what the judge described as “reprehensible”
conduct in canceling the policy of a patient after she was diagnosed...
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 Los Angeles city attorney Rocky Delgadillo has sued Health Net Inc on behalf of the entire state of California. He alleges that the insurer is illegally canceling policies to avoid paying large claims and uses false advertising regarding "individual and family" policies held by about 135,000 Californians."This lawsuit is...
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 According to a news study
released Sunday, the scientists from Purdue University in West Lafayette,
Indiana, found that food containing calorie-free artificial sweeteners may be
fattening instead of sliming, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The research, performed on rats,
was published in the February issue of Behavioral...
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 A new research study found that baby shampoos,
lotions and powders contain chemicals that might cause reproductive and
endocrine abnormalities to infants. The chemicals, called phthalates, are found
in baby cosmetics, as well as in toys, vinyl flooring, shower curtains and
medical supplies. They are used by the manufacturers for...
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 US scientists claim a drug can reverse some of the early
symptoms of Alzheimer's disease - with the first effects seen within 10
minutes.
The Journal of Neuroinflammation reports how the memory of
an 81-year-old man improved sharply after etanercept was injected into his
spine.
His wife described it as her husband being...
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 According to Danish reports, drinking in moderation and
keeping physically active is the formula for keeping heart disease at bay.
In fact, people who didn't drink and weren't physically
active had a 30 percent to 49 percent higher risk of developing heart disease
than people who drank, exercised or did both.
"This study...
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 U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday that heart attacks may
not be reserved for the hostile and driven among us -- anxious, but fearful
people also have a higher risk.
They found men who scored the highest on tests of anxiety
were 30 to 40 percent more likely than the others to have a heart attack.
The findings held even when...
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 A new US study using laboratory mice found the spinal cord is not hard wired and when injured it reorganizes the way messages are routed, using alternate pathways that circumvent the damaged ones.The study is published in the advanced online issue of Nature Medicine and is the work of researchers at the University of California, Los...
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 U.S. researchers reported on Monday that circumcision may
reduce a man's risk of infection with the AIDS virus by up to 60 percent if he
is an African, but it does not appear to help American men of color.
Black and Latino men were just as likely to become infected
with the AIDS virus whether they were circumcised or not, Greg...
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 For the past few years, California officials have been distributing
lunchboxes in a healthy eating campaign promotion. 300,000 of these lunchboxes
were sold and according to health representatives, each and every one of the lunchboxes
present a heath hazard in itself by containing high levels of lead.
The study was conducted on...
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 The American Academy of Dermatology has released a ranking of “sun smart” cities and states in the US, i.e. with residents knowledgeable in sun exposure and protection and skin cancer.
Over 3,300 adults completed the AAD’s online survey, titled “Rays: Your Grade,” in February 2007. The questions covered topics such as sun exposure, sun...
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 A new study made for the health system in California discovered that because of the state’s high pollution rate, more than $28 billion are spent each year for the 20 million people who live by breathing the worst air in the country. Deaths, chronic illness, hospitalizations and missing days from school and work led the health system and...
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 California health officials urged residents
to take precautions, including avoiding mosquito-infested areas, eliminating
standing water that attracts the insects, using mosquito repellent, maintaining
clean swimming pools and paying careful attention to window screens. The
repellents should be applied routinely before going outside,...
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 You don’t need a license to perform an
abortion. Having this in her mind, Bertha Pinedo Bugarin, 48, performed abortions
and prescribed drugs while pretending to be a doctor at Clinica Medica de la
Mujer in Chula Vista.
According to prosecutors, the woman performed abortions at the clinic on in Chula Vista during
February and March...
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 Rates of heart attacks, strokes and potentially
fatal blood clots in the leg increase after exposure to air pollution from
traffic fumes. It alters the blood’s coagulation properties and heightens the
risk of deep vein trombosis.
As many as 24,000 deaths annually in California are linked to
chronic exposure to fine particulate...
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 Countries close to the Great
Salt Lake reported the highest numbers of human West Nile virus
infections last year.
The abandoned swimming pools have become
breeding grounds for mosquitoes that can carry the West
Nile virus, Orange County Vector Control officials reported
Tuesday.
13 birds collected from all over Orange...
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 US
hospitals are not prepared to deal with a big event, such as a disaster or a
terrorist attack, according to findings released Monday from a House oversight
committee. The survey included seven major cities and the hospitals were
inspected on Tuesday, March 25 at 4:30 p.m., local time.
The 34 hospitals surveyed in New York...
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The American Lung Association’s State of
the Air reported yesterday the rates of air pollution in different cities of
the U.S. between 2004 and 2006, according to Atlanta Journal Constitution.
The researchers have based their study on
three categories of air quality: short-term and year round particle pollution,
the last one...
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 Utility officials reported on Friday that two main drinking water supply reservoirs that connect to parts of eastern and central Los Angeles have been shut down and will be drained because a rare sunlight-fueled chemical reaction tainted them with high levels of a chemical that can lead to cancer.The Los Angeles Department of Water and...
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 In recent events, the Port of Los Angeles Harbor
Commission adopted a port plan that would begin
in October 2008 by banning trucks with engines manufactured before 1989. Trucks
with model year engines from 1989 through 2003 would have to be retrofitted
with devices that catch 85 percent of diesel particulate matter and 25...
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 Latest satellite images have shown out-of-control wildfires
that have been polluting Southern
California skies with acrid smoke and falling ash for a third
straight day,as public health officials urge the elderly and people with
breathing problems to stay indoors.
The images showed thick smoke from more than a...
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 National environmental groups leaded by Attorney General Jerry Brown have taken into consideration the amount of pollution resulted from cargo ships and the significant contributing they bring to global warming thus demanding that the Bush administration address greenhouse-gas emissions and find a way to stop the pollution.Brown and the...
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 Heal the Bay released this year’s Beach Report Card, revealing Los Angeles County with 7 of the 10 most polluted beaches in California and the Long Beach area as the one most affected by pollution. Help the Bay (www.healthebay.org) is a non-profit organization based in Santa Monica that releases a study each year assessing California’s...
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 Two important studies published today showed that the supplements taken by millions of Americans as vitamins don’t reduce the risk for many important diseases. The vitamins that people think it could help them fight the diseases don’t reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes or breast cancer.In one of the studies, 14,641 male physicians...
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 A new study that can change the treatment for cardiovascular disease showed that statin drugs can really lower the risk of heart attacks and even strokes in patients who apparently feel well. The researchers tracked 18,000 people who had normal cholesterol and found out that the drugs also helped for lowering the risk of heart diseases...
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 Since the American
Academy of Pediatrics
issued a recommendation on Monday regarding treating children over the age of 8
with cholesterol drugs, a new debate has been triggered on whether there exists
sufficient scientific proof to rationalize such a move.
Known for their efficacy in decreasing the risk of heart
disease in...
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 The second-largest group of doctors in the United States
has approved Friday the use of marijuana for medical purposes, issuing a policy
statement on medical marijuana this week.
The American College of Physicians, with 124,000 members,
asked the U.S. government to cancel the ban on using marijuana for treating
some patients or...
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AC Milan and lawyers for David Beckham were set to begin negotiations Thursday for the loan of the English star to the Serie A powerhouse.
The ANSA news agency quoted Milan vice president Adriano Galliani as saying that representatives of the 33-year-old midfielder advanced the date of a meeting originally scheduled for next...
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 William Ernest "Bill" Walsh, the former head-coach of the San Francisco 49ers, who led them to three Super Bowl victories in the 1980s, died on Monday.The 75-year-old nicknamed “the Genius” had suffered from leukemia and he died at 10:45 am on July 30, 2007 at his Woodside, California home with his family by his side according...
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 A scientist and former U.S. Army man was named a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax deadly attack. He was later cleared of all charges, but a federal judge wanted to make public the court records which have been sealed for so many years. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth released the information for The New York Times...
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 The fire from California has reached its fourth day of spreading all around the area and destroying more than 800 homes. Firefighters are desperately trying to stop it while evacuating thousands of residents. Since Thursday, when the blaze began, 800 houses, most of them million-dollar mansions, were erased in the county of Montecito....
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 Officials from Santa Barbara County, California, announced that a wildfire which started on late Thursday destroyed a big part of the canyon and obliged the residents from Montecito to flee away. The flames burnt down nearly 70 multimillion dollars homes and ranch-style houses.Because of the strong winds the blaze started to spread...
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 The Great Southern California Shake Out is a weeklong event that is meant to teach people how to act during a big earthquake. The education program starts today at 10 a.m. when 5.2 million residents of California will have to roll under the tables and spend two minutes holding its leg tightly. The organizers of the events say that it’s...
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Landon Donovan was elected United States Footballer of the Year for the fifth time in his career on Tuesday.
The 105-times capped Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder won the US media poll with 297 votes from Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard (249) and Fulham forward Clint Dempsey (176).
Donovan, 26, scored 20 goals for the Galaxy in the...
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Four Marines were arrested after they had told investigators they were the ones who robbed and killed a fellow Marine and his wife last month. The four broke into the couple’s home, sexually assaulted the woman and searched for valuable objects. They were charged on Wednesday with the execution-style slayings of Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24,...
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Microsoft released key details Tuesday of the next generation of software that it hopes will run the world's computers.
The software giant, whose dominance is under threat, said Windows 7 will replace the disappointing Windows Vista in January 2010.
Microsoft said the new operating system was designed to function like a tighter...
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 Northern Los Angeles has been attacked by big flames on Tuesday. The gusty Santa Ana winds have sent the biggest wildfires from southern California. Many homes in the area were threatened by the big blazes. Special crews and helicopters tried to fight the fire which was spread on more than 20-sqaure miles above the San Fernando Valley...
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 Firefighters received the alarm call on Sunday night as a wildfire was spreading quickly over 20 miles north of Los Angeles. Officials announced that strong winds and dry weather was expected during the night. Ron Haralson, spokesman for Los Angeles County Fire Department, stated that "There's been no open flames for hours. It's...
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The enigma of the disappearance of adventurer Steve Fossett moved closer to resolution Thursday as federal transportation officials were set to examine the wreckage of a light plane found near the site where objects apparently belonging to Fossett were discovered earlier in the week.
Searchers discovered the wreckage late Wednesday...
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The Abbot Kinney Street Festival in Venice was the witness of a terrible murder on Sunday night. A man was shot to dead and pronounced dead at a hospital, while a woman was critically wounded by another bullet. According to Los Angeles police Officer Karen Smith of the Media Relations Section, the shooting occurred at about 9:20 p.m. on...
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An 18-year-old is suspected to have killed a mother and three daughters. Corey King of Lancaster was taken into police custody this morning after the four bodies were found in their burning Lancaster home. He was questioned by the authorities on Tuesday night and taken into police custody this morning.Lt. Patrick Nelson of the Los...
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City crime rates have decreased this summer in Los Angeles. This is the first time in four decades when the fewest number of homicides have been recorded. 84 homicides were committed since June to the end of August. The summer of 1967, for example, left Los Angeles without 79 residents because of an increased crime rate.Still, the...
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Edwin O. Guthman was 89 when he died on Sunday. The Seattle Times journalist had won the Pulitzer Prize back in 1950 for his articles which cleared a professor who was accused of communist sympathies. After this important step in his career, Guthman held top editing list at the Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The...
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Authorities are looking for a serial killer from Los Angeles, California. They believe that the murderer killed at least 11 people in 23 years after DNA and ballistics tests have confirmed that the same killer committed all the 11 crimes in Los Angeles and Inglewood. Many of the people slew were prostitutes or drug users. The...
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 Three people died in a car crash last night in Los Angeles. Among the dead there were a pregnant woman and a little girl of only 12 years. Two other people were seriously injured as their car ran into a tree. Authorities believe that the car was participating in a possible drag race in northeast Los Angeles, in Eagle Rock community.The...
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 A small aircraft which was participating to an experimental flight on Friday crashed into a house of Los Angeles. The plane exploded after it took off and killed the pilot inside together with two people inside the house. The plane was home-built and its pilot tried to announce the officials from the North Las Vegas Airport that he might...
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A SWAT team killed a man who wounded the mother of a 2-year-old daughter and then held the little girl hostage for two hours at his house in Lynwood, California, but he didn’t harm the baby during this time, on Sunday, when the incident took place.People who responded to an emergency call in Monday found the wounded woman outside their...
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Homeless people use a new method to get food and to have a place to stay. Hospitals take them in and offer them these facilities. This means a full-patient load and a paycheck from the government. Due to this, a hospital CEO was arrested on Wednesday.Federal agents checked three medical centers and they found out that the hospitals were...
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Matthew O’Sullivan, 37, of Los Angeles, California, was charged with first-degree criminal sexual act on Wednesday. O’Sullivan is an employee at the company that produces the video series of “Girls Gone Wild.” His accusations came after he had groped a woman aboard a bus outside a New York bar called Nubar. On Tuesday night, the “Girls...
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 Two people were taken to hospital in order to be treated for critical burn injuries Sunday night after their rental truck upturned and burst into flames on a main freeway interchange in downtown Los Angeles. Brian Ballton, spokesperson for Los Angeles Fire Department, stated that a Ryder truck caught fire Sunday on southbound Interstate...
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The Los Angeles Times reported that a top government scientist who helped law enforcement analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks had died Tuesday in Maryland. The man apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to charge him for the anthrax attacks, being a leading suspect in the act that frightened...
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A top government scientist who helped law enforcement analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks had passed away in Maryland. Apparently, he committed suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times reported.62-year-old Bruce Ivins, who for the past 18 years worked for the U.S....
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A brief earthquake rattled Los Angeles on
Tuesday, causing downtown buildings to sway, sending a jolt to outlying
areas and causing parents to rush to schools to check on their
children.
The US Geological Survey said the quake was a magnitude 5.4 on the
Richter scale, after earlier saying it had been as strong as 5.8.
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