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The council is set to vote on a proposal to give a three-acre site in North Hollywood to a developer building offices and a movie theater near the Red Line station. >>
A team will study the value of adding land from the Rim of the Valley Corridor, but such a review could take years. >>
If approved, Cal State undergraduate fees could rise by 10%, and UC's would increase by 7.4%, officials said. >>
Report says most diners are left in the dark by the existing health inspection results and recommends copying L.A. County's letter-grade method. >>
ON LATIMES.COM
Last week, Out There visited the community of Montrose. There, activists gather weekly to protest the war in Iraq. Each week, before the protest begins, one local resident lowers an American flag that flies the rest of the week at the intersection -- to protest the fact that the activists choose to gather at the site of a Vietnam War memorial. Some readers argued that the flag does not belong to people with certain political beliefs, but to everyone. Others said the antiwar protesters are unpatriotic and do not deserve to gather under the flag. A sample of reader response: >>
Tom Bogard, Orange County's highway director, will be coordinating with his counterparts in neighboring counties to ease commuters' inconvenience. >>
A search is underway for solutions to the growing problem of cardboard and plastic discarded by shops. >>
The increasingly bold animals have attacked 2 toddlers, in Lake Arrowhead and Chino Hills. >>
The Senate president pro tem heeds Republican warnings that efforts to unseat Jeff Denham could result in a repeat of last year's tortured budget deliberations. >>
More than 500 lawsuits in California and 19 other states over groundwater fouled by the gasoline additive are resolved. >>
Researchers in San Diego believe advances in the material’s composition could help structures withstand powerful tremors. >>
SANTA ANA>>An examination by Washington state finds abuses in pacts signed by the port agency. She says the group had wide discretion on deals. A criminal probe is underway. >>
Wesley Albert, 78, wrote numerous illegal painkiller prescriptions that led to a 28-year-old Riverside man's death, the state attorney general's office says. >>
An investigation of sheriff's officers at the Theo Lacy jail is inconclusive. >>
Road Sage
The average commuting times there and in the Inland Empire are some of the longest in Southern California, which helps makes sense of the carpool toll plan for the 10 and 210 freeways. >>
REAL ESTATE
A Lake Elsinore man is arrested on suspicion of assaulting the deaf 16-year-old hitchhiker after offering her a ride to San Diego. >>
The chart lists median prices in thousands of dollars for sales of existing single-family homes and condominiums by ZIP Code. Community names are included for convenience. Some ZIP Codes include multiple cities that, due to space limitations, cannot all be listed by name. >>
The governor says globe-trotting is how he got his education and says it is especially important for legislators from small towns. >>
Thieves disguise themselves as Caltrans workers. CHP asks the public for help. >>
A homeless man looking for cans discovers the newborn stuffed in a bag full of discarded mail. The mother is in custody. >>
A federal judge Monday ruled that 20 critical changes, including infrastructure overhauls, must be made at the site. Most see the ruling as a 'happy ending.' >>
COLUMN ONE
The desert trailer park is an outpost of the Purépechas, indigenous people from Mexico. 'They are the poorest of the poor,' says a nun who works with them. >>
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