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Today's Local News for Los Angeles CA :

As of 7:30 PM EDT

Los Angeles Times

Riverside bomb scare prompts evacuation of 8 homes

May 13 8:45 AM EDT

A man was arrested for investigation of planting fake pipe bombs and booby-trapping his former house in Riverside, forcing the evacuation of nine nearby homes, police said today.

Lottery results

May 13 3:09 AM EDT

Let L.A. Times Food Editor Russ Parsons serve as your guide to the freshest produce of the season.

Law students help free three-strikes offenders

May 13 1:54 AM EDT

A Stanford clinic focuses on mostly nonviolent inmates whose third strike they see as relatively minor. Four have had sentences cut; three of them are out. The law's author calls the effort misguided. Norman Williams feared he would be an old man if he was ever allowed to leave the granite walls of Folsom State Prison. The Long Beach native was serving a possible life sentence under California's ...

As parting gift, USC seniors will help restore school's silent carillon

May 13 1:15 AM EDT

The graduating class is on track to raise $11,000 to add harmony and color to the carillon's music. Officials at universities say that seniors who donate early on are also likely to be generous later. Brian Barker wants to hear the long-silent carillon at USC's bell tower once again sound the hour and play the school's fight song. So Barker, an accounting major who graduates from USC on Friday, ...

Political aspirations of Latinos and Asians clash in congressional race

May 13 1:00 AM EDT

Analysts are watching to see how ethnicity will play in the campaign of Judy Chu and Gil Cedillo, the best known of the candidates battling in the heavily Latino district once represented by Hilda Sol A ferociously contested congressional race in the San Gabriel Valley has emerged as a classic test of the power of ethnic politics in the aftermath of Barack Obama's racial breakthrough in the ...


Los Angeles Daily News

LAUSD teachers not striking Friday, will protest against budget cuts

May 13 6:41 PM EDT

Los Angeles teachers will refrain from a one-day strike Friday, union officials announced today, but are planning to picket before school and engage in civil disobedience and a downtown march after school.

Possible murder suspect spotted in San Fernando Valley leads cops on chase

May 13 5:11 PM EDT

A possible attempted murder suspect spotted by Los Angeles police in the San Fernando Valley led authorities on chase across the region today.

State Supreme Court won't review Lancaster man's conviction in fatal DUI case

May 13 5:11 PM EDT

The California Supreme Court declined today to review the case against a Lancaster man convicted of second-degree murder for driving drunk and causing a crash that killed a woman and injured two of his friends.

City Council resolution urges federal action aimed at protecting Iraqi gays

May 13 5:11 PM EDT

A call to end the persecution of gays and lesbians in Iraq, which one Los Angeles lawmaker said is vastly underreported, was backed today by members of the Los Angeles City Council.

Anna Nicole Smith's companion, 2 doctors plead to drug charges

May 13 2:11 PM EDT

Anna Nicole Smith's longtime companion and two psychiatrists pleaded not guilty today to charges of funneling drugs to the one- time Playboy Playmate in the years leading up to her death from an accidental prescription medication overdose.


CBS 2 Los Angeles

Calif. Hospital Fined For Deadly Blood Transfusion

May 13 7:18 PM EDT

A Hollywood hospital has been fined $25,000 by the state of California after nurses failed to follow blood transfusion protocol and a patient died as a result.

Ex-Laker Corie Blount To Be Sentenced In Drug Case

May 13 7:14 PM EDT

Former NBA player and University of Cincinnati basketball star Corie Blount will be sentenced on marijuana charges that could put him in prison up to 10 years. Wednesday's sentencing in Ohio's Butler County comes more than a month after the 40-year-old Blount pleaded guilty to two felony possession counts. As part of a plea bargain, prosecutors dropped two trafficking charges.

More Charges Filed In Deadly La Canada Crash

May 13 7:04 PM EDT

Three new felony charges were added today against a trucker accused of causing a multi-vehicle wreck on Angeles Crest Highway that killed a 12-year-old Palmdale girl and her father. Marcos Barbosa Costa, now 44, pleaded not guilty to three counts of reckless driving causing specified injury involving three people who were injured in the crash. He had previously pleaded not guilty to two felony ...

Torre Picked By Manuel To Coach In All-Star Game

May 13 6:46 PM EDT

Joe Torre is going back to the All-Star game. Torre said Wednesday that Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel asked him to be part of the National League coaching staff for the Midsummer Classic in St. Louis on July 14. "It's a privilege and an honor," Torre said before his Los Angeles Dodgers played the Phillies in the second game of their three-game series. "I'm definitely going."

San Diego Agents Arrest 60 In Bank Scam

May 13 6:31 PM EDT

Authorities in San Diego have announced the arrest of 60 people, including gang members and active duty military personnel, in an alleged fraud that netted more than $500,000. The San Diego County district attorney's office said Wednesday that the 10-month investigation ended a day earlier when federal and local investigators made the arrests.


NBC Los Angeles

Olbermann Calls Out Miss California on Photos, Boob Job, Satan

May 13 7:17 PM EDT

Keith Olbermann takes on the Miss California drama about her comments about God, Satan and the semi-nude photos.

Pickup Driver in Custody After Pursuit in Corona

May 13 6:17 PM EDT

A driver in a red pickup led about 20 California Highway Patrol units on a nearly hour-long chase Wednesday afternoon in Corona.

More Miss CA Drama; Moakler Out

May 13 5:02 PM EDT

Former Miss USA and current Miss CA pageant director told US weekly she is out of there... resigning from the Miss Universe oirganization because she "does not believe in it."

Olbermann Calls Out Miss California on photos, boob job, and satan

May 13 5:02 PM EDT

Keith Olbermann takes on the Miss California drama. He takes her on about her comments about God and Satan and the semi-nude photos.

Cop Punts Suspect's Head

May 13 4:47 PM EDT

VIDEO ADDED: A police pursuit ends with an officer using a suspect's head as a football. Ouch.


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