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Naked Man Climbs Radio Tower in Downtown L.A., Threatens to Jump (NSFW Photo)

2012-02-09 13:40:12

Updated below with more insane photos of the naked tower climber -- and the bait used by LAPD rescuers to lure him down. Originally posted February 8 at 5:15 p.m. The L.A. City Fire Department...

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Kamala Harris' $12 Billion Deal With Big Banks: Cop Out or Solid Settlement For California Homeowners?

2012-02-09 13:26:48

So did she cave in to the Big Banks, or secure a good deal for the people of California? After holding out for a year, Attorney General Kamala Harris today announced that the Golden State is si...

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Man on Westwood Rooftop in Standoff With Cops After Short Car Chase

2012-02-09 13:10:08

Updated at the bottom: It's over. First posted at 11:46 a.m. Another day, another crazy guy perched high in the sky. Following yesterday's fun with a naked man who climbed atop a radio tower b...

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L.A. Sheriff's Department Shakeup? Rumors That Sheriff Lee Baca Has Demoted Paul Tanaka, Sketchy Undersheriff

2012-02-09 12:45:18

Could L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca finally be turning the Sheriff's Department on its head, in an effort to save whatever scraps of reputation he has left after a year of beaten inmates, ACLU l...

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Miramonte Staff Will Never Return to Scandal-Plagued Campus, Teachers' Union Says

2012-02-09 12:37:38

As was sure to happen, the sex-abuse scandal at Miramonte Elementary is turning into a battle between the powerful teacher's union and the bureaucratically stifling L.A. Unified School District....

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Carmen Trutanich Announces Campaign For D.A., Highlights Lawsuit Against Deutsche Bank

2012-02-09 11:01:53

L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich made it official this morning, announcing his candidacy for district attorney. Trutanich has been raising money for the campaign for a year, and has amassed ...

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LAUSD's Adult Schools May Be Cut From Budget Entirely: Protesters Rally in Defense of 350,000 Endangered Students

2012-02-09 10:15:36

By far the most concerning cut on the Los Angeles Unified School District's most recent budget proposal: The entire Division of Adult and Career Education. If all the adult schools and career ...

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Oscars Shmoskers: You'll Pick The Winners Thanks to Twitter Analysis

2012-02-09 08:05:21

If you're a Monday morning quarterback who talks back to the television during the Oscars telecast (What were they thinking!?), then researchers at USC might just have a relief valve for you. U...

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Ball-Throwing, Sand-Digging at L.A. Beaches Could Cost You $1,000, Jail Time

2012-02-09 08:00:13

Guess what? If you've ever thrown any object over 10 inches in diameter at an L.A. beach -- frisbees and footballs included -- you were breaking the law. But a few amendments to L.A. County's b...

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'Flash Occupation' of Los Angeles Banks Planned Today

2012-02-09 07:00:38

And you thought the occupation of Los Angeles was over with the raid on Occupy L.A.'s City Hall lawn encampment at the end of November. Oh no. The occupy nation is getting ready to confront a...

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Robert Butyka Hacked Into JPL Computer System, Called Himself 'The Iceman,' Feds Say

2012-02-08 16:19:28

He called himself The Iceman, and he hacked into some of the more sensitive computers in the realm of U.S. space and defense systems -- those at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. So...

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SeaWorld Whales Are Slaves Protected by U.S. Constitution? Federal Judge in SoCal Actually Considers It

2012-02-08 16:04:18

Updated at the bottom: Case dismissed. First posted at 11:51 a.m. on Monday. You might have blown off PETA's claim that whales under the care of SeaWorld San Diego were deserving of constitutio...

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Pomona College Caught in 'Wave of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria,' Says Professor

2012-02-08 16:00:49

The illegal-immigration debate is on fire at Pomona College in far-east L.A. County. "You'd think that if any place was going to be a safe haven for immigrants, it would be at colleges and uni...

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LAPD's Abandoned Rampart Station, Center of B.I.G. Scandal, Is Now Blight Capital of the Eastside

2012-02-08 14:30:12

A new kind of scandal has overtaken the LAPD's old, boarded-up Rampart Station in Historic Filipinotown. It's a lot less hip-hop than the last one, but infuriating all the same: "This old stat...

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Marijuana Sold For Profit at California Dispensaries? Guy Who Wrote The Law on This, John Vasconcellos, Says it's Legit

2012-02-08 13:55:38

One of the rallying cries of those opposed to the proliferation of pot shops in places like Los Angeles is that medical marijuana was never meant to be for-profit in the state of California. Ye...

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New Galaxy Discovered by UCLA Researchers (Really), But It's A 'Dwarf'

2012-02-08 12:31:58

UCLA researchers today announced that they've discovered a new galaxy. And not just any galaxy, but a "dwarf galaxy." Despite its relatively Manny Pacquiao-like dimensions, the new-to-us baby k...

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Areceli Luisjuan, Former Miramonte Aide: Did She Write 'Love Letters' to 11-Year-Old, or Has Media Witch Hunt Gone Too Far?

2012-02-08 12:30:27

Every L.A. media outlet from KNX news radio to HuffPost has picked up the Los Angeles Times' latest Miramonte Elementary reveal this morning, in which one mother claims that a former teacher's a...

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Kardashian Sisters' Fur Peddling at Their DASH Stores Draws Ire of Animal Rights Activisists

2012-02-08 12:05:28

The Kardashian sisters can't escape the sour taste of haterade these days. First there was a movement to get Kim to pay more taxes (she saw a California rate of 10.3 percent in 2010 even though...

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L.A. Redistricting: Bernard Parks' District 8 Looks Like a U.S. Army Tank

2012-02-08 11:10:47

This is the second chapter in a (badly Photoshopped) series on the L.A. Redistricting Commission's gerrymandered new voting districts. Previously: "Eric Garcetti's District 13 Looks Like an Evil...

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Million-Dollar City Yacht Is Really More of a Boat, Insists L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

2012-02-08 09:10:49

Awww! L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says the darndest things when he's caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Dogged CBS LA investigator David Goldstein asked the mayor why, so deep in a bu...

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