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Homeless woman's love of animals saves lost North Hollywood dog
Jay Hofstadter was in a panic as he taped his missing-dog posters on streetlight poles in North Hollywood. His 8-year-old beagle Snoopy had escaped out the front door of his Ben Avenue house and disappeared. Though he didn't know it at the time,...
Tags: Pets, Heart Attack, California Department of Transportation
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Have a ticket to ride? Metro starts locking subway turnstiles
Sorry subway riders, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is no longer operating on the honor system. The turnstile gates for the Purple and Red lines at Union Station will be latched today and riders will need a TAP card...
Tags: Subway Transportation, Travel, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Transportation
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Officials demand FAA regulate helicopter noise in L.A. County
Asserting that voluntary guidelines won't work, elected officials on Monday night urged the Federal Aviation Administration to adopt regulations to reduce the noise and safety risks of helicopter flights over neighborhoods across Los Angeles County....
Tags: Government, Tony Cardenas, Public Officials, Adam B. Schiff, Air Transportation Industry
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Natural History Museum's Otis Booth Pavilion finally revealed
The 100-year-old Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County knows how to make an entrance. On Saturday night, following a black-tie dinner to celebrate its centennial, the museum lifted the curtain on its brand-new entrance, the Otis Booth Pavilion....
Tags: Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, History (tv network), Fabian, Museums
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Starving artists? Not among the leaders of L.A. arts institutions
L.A. added two new million-dollar-a-year executives to the ranks of its top-paid arts leaders during 2011, although two existing members of the seven-person club had to get by with less than they'd made in 2010. Increases for Music Center President...
Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Getty, Arts and Culture, Govans, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
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Coliseum negotiations kept confidential, stadium official says
Government overseers of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum entered into a sweeping secrecy agreement requested by USC to keep under wraps their negotiations to surrender control of the taxpayer-owned venue to the private university, a top stadium...
Tags: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Laws, California Public Records Act, Colleges and Universities, Justice System
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Coliseum deal: USC to cash in on turnover
About five years ago, County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky denounced USC's proposal to take control of the taxpayer-owned Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and its revenue. "Some people on the board of trustees of the University of Southern California...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Science, National Football League, Services and Shopping, Investments
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Signs of boy's abuse missed by L.A. County social workers
When paramedics arrived at his Palmdale home last week, 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez's skull was cracked, three ribs were broken and his skin was bruised and burned. He had BB pellets embedded in his lung and groin. Two teeth were knocked out of his...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Social Services, Child Abuse, Abusive Behavior, Career and Workplace
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L.A. County to try again to cut troubled foster care contractor
Los Angeles County Supervisors Gloria Molina and Michael D. Antonovich will make another attempt to cut a troubled foster care contractor with a history of misused money and child abuse. Under the supervisors' proposal, the county board has once again...
Tags: Mark Ridley-Thomas, Juvenile Delinquency, Theft, Abusive Behavior, Gloria Molina
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Boy's death prompts outrage, red flags of child abuse 'ignored'
The death of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy has sparked outrage from his family and prompted questions from county officials, as documents showed the boy's mother -- charged with murder in his death -- was previously investigated six times for abuse...
Tags: Michael Jackson, Prosecution, Child Abuse, Abusive Behavior, AEG
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A welcome revenue boost for L.A. County
Local government coffers are beginning to feel the effect of the region's slowly improving economy, led by the significant increase in property tax valuation in Los Angeles County. The total value of taxable parcels in the county is expected to rise...
Tags: FBI, Values, Michael Antonovich , Layoffs and Downsizing, Law Enforcement
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L.A. Philharmonic concerned about potential subway noise
Nothing in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's repertoire calls for 135-ton trains. The orchestra aims to keep it that way when Metro light rail cars start rumbling through a subway tunnel near Walt Disney Concert Hall. Experts who know the hall's...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture, Entertainment, Arts, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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