• Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich released the following statement on the death of former State Senator Newt Russell:

    The northbound San Diego (405) Freeway will be closed tonight and tomorrow night at Santa Monica Boulevard as crews conduct concrete repairs.

     

    “Terminator 2″ actor Edward Furlong was in custody today following his arrest on suspicion of violating a court order involving his former girlfriend, authorities said.

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    An angry President Barack Obama sacked the acting head of the US Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday over a fast moving scandal sparked when officials unfairly targeted conservative groups.

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    Angelina Jolie told the world today she underwent a double mastectomy to stave off breast cancer, the disease that killed her mother at the age of 56.

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    More than 470 dignitaries, residents and friends gathered together from not just the United States but also three continents to pay tribute to Dr. Michael John Patzakis’s 21 years as USC’s Chairman of the Dept. of Orthopaedics. He has been a member of the USC Keck School of Medicine’s Orthopaedic Department for 43 years.

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    The S&P 500 reached a new all-time high Thursday, boosted by an expected European Central Bank interest rate cut and a surprisingly good US jobless claims report.

    Much of Southern California was under a red flag warning today — signifying what the National Weather Service calls “an extremely high fire danger” — as strong Santa Ana winds swept the region, temperatures soared and humidity levels dipped down to single-digit territory.

    A Los Angeles police detective who investigated the 2009 death of Michael Jackson told a jury today that he and other LAPD personnel could not find the singer’s personal physician in the hours after the pop star’s death.

    Gusty Santa Ana winds blew across the Southland today amid rising heat and falling humidity, creating an “elevated fire danger” in the region expected to last until Friday, National Weather Service forecasters said.

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    LOS ANGELES COUNTY – Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich released the following statement on the death of former State Senator Newt Russell: “Newt Russell... 
     
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