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Must be nice to have so much cash that you can pair up with a buddy and donate $70 million to a private, rich kids' school like USC.

Of course, the headphone-endorsement business has been good to Dr. Dre, a.k.a. Andre Young. The same endeavor has been good to Jimmy Iovine, not to mention American Idol and Interscope Records. And the cash the two are ponying up is for a good cause:

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Would you feel comforted if a robot came to your hospital bed to help examine you?

That's what you might have in store if you ever end up at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center's neurological intensive-care unit. Meet "EVA," all 5 feet, 5 inches and 176 pounds of her. This hefty techno-girl marks a milestone for UCLA:

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There are some bad immigrants out there, from ecstasy dealers to robbers to murderers, and deporting them is probably the least we could do.

But being booted out of the country for barking dogs? That's what Southern California resident Ruth Montano was facing. At least until the ACLU stepped in:

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It's not everyday you turn 103.

And so the county government of Los Angeles this week threw a birthday party for Lillian Thompson yesterday right where she lives, at the Marina Manor Public Housing Development in Marina Del Rey. It did not get out of hand, we were told.

Wait: There's public housing in Marina Del Rey?

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California Sen. Ricardo Lara is introducing the "Youth Equality Act" to try to remove the Boy Scouts of America's tax-exempt status because it discriminates against gays.

Lara aims to pass bill SB 323, which would end 501(c)3 status for all youth groups that continue to discriminate against homosexual youth in California. This bill would force organizations with discriminatory policies to pay corporate taxes on all donations and other forms of income.

The senator's office explains the bill in a statement:

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It's February. It'll be 24 degrees and might snow tonight in New York City as frigid Canadian wind sweeps the East. It's 30 degrees in Boston, Chicago is dropping soon to 14 degrees (sweet Jesus), and even in San Francisco it's 50 degrees and oppressively gray -- naturally. In Los Angeles, it's 73 degrees and it feels like perfect -- the air is silky cool and the sunshine is like a wet kiss.

Some people say Los Angeles has no seasons. They're wrong. We have seasons. We just have perfect effing weather 300 days out of the year. Suck it, rest of the world. The weather is Reason No. 10 to Love Los Angeles and never, ever leave. Here are the nine others:

9. Parades

Los Angeles is famous for many things, but one stands high above all others: It's the world capital of moving large objects slowly through the streets.

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The Boy Scouts of America marching in the Rose Parade.

The Boy Scouts of America's decision to let local chapters in Los Angeles and nationwide decide whether or not to continue a controversial ban on openly homosexual members is generating near-silence in Scouting in L.A., which has one of the nation's largest population of gay young people.

The national board recently decided that its longtime gay ban conflicts with the Boy Scout mission "to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetime." Yet in Los Angeles, few Scout officials or leaders seem willing to talk about it:

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Commissioned Officer Diana Zschaschel, Paul Garcia, and their baby

Commissioned U.S. Army Reserve Officer Diana Elizabeth Zschaschel and her family are facing a cold winter eviction set for today in Los Angeles, after they say the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., or Freddie Mac, wrongfully evicted them -- while she was on duty in San Diego.

On May 14, 2011, Zschaschel, an active-duty officer, was part of "Operation Ready Warrior," in San Diego, which helped military personnel with dental needs, a field in which she specializes. While deployed out of town, her husband was trying work out a repayment plan with Bank of America because they were behind on their mortgage in Los Angeles. Instead, she and the family's attorney allege, B of A illegally foreclosed:

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Updated at the bottom: Locals weren't going to stand for it! Headline has changed. First posted at 7:09 a.m. Friday.

So you bought a $4 million Malibu beach house for the private coastal access and the amazing view ...

Except that your alleged private beach has a 35 foot, 40,000-pound invader really stinking up the place.

And it's so big and rotting that there's no good way to get rid of it. Welcome to paradise:

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California is the state with more billionaires than any place in America except America itself. SoCal coastal property is gold. And Hollywood generates billions.

But, according to a new U.S. Census measure of poverty, we're also tops in poor people.

Yep, the bureau's "Supplemental Poverty Measure" numbers, culled from 2011 stats, say that ...

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You will never be attacked by a shark. We guarantee it.

The odds are 1 in 11.5 million. In 2010, in fact, you were 16 more times likely to have been killed by a dog than by a shark. And you haven't been killed by a dog lately, have you?

And still, as we bake in summer heat, the allure of the Pacific is tempered only by that nagging feeling that something is lurking beneath the surface, ready to snack on your leg as if it's human sushi. It does happen, and this proves it:

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The San Diego Fireworks Fail of 2012 will go down in history as an epic dud that blew six-figures worth of fireworks and aborted a planned, 15-minute showcase the likes of which the town has never seen (and still hasn't). It all went down in less than 30 seconds.

After the 4th of July mishap on San Diego Bay -- a story that echoed around the world -- disappointment was rampant. Finger-pointing went viral.

But a funny thing happened:

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The shark.

In a scene reminiscent of Jaws, fishermen 15 miles off the coast had to tow in an estimated 900-pound shark Tuesday: It was too heavy to get on the boat.

And it broke the scale.

It all culminated Tuesday when the fishing boat docked at Del Rey Landing, according to Marina Del Rey Patch:

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Girl fight!

About a half-dozen patrons of a downtown Redlands Denny's were cited on suspicion of assault after a girl fight that was caught on tape (video after the jump) broke out over the weekend, police said today.

The brawl involving women in short skirts and minidresses was reported early Sunday morning -- apparently after Saturday night's last call -- at 9 West Redlands Boulevard, police spokesman Carl Baker confirmed to the Weekly.

It's unclear what sparked the fracas:

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