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City of Santa Clarita gets AAA credit rating
L.A. NOWSanta Clarita gets credit rating upgrade: At a time when many California cities are facing major fiscal shortfalls, and even bankruptcy, Santa Clarita’s credit rating has been upgraded to AAA status--the highest score a municipality can receive&#... -
'Lola Versus' team turns their romantic baggage into films
24 FramesDaryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones, the twentysomethings behind the new offbeat romantic comedy “Lola Versus,” endured a yearlong, real-life breakup whose spirit they funneled into the movie. For the film, which opens in Los Angeles Friday and... -
Jacob E. Goldman dies at 90; creator of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center
Jacob E. Goldman, the former Xerox chief scientist who created the company's famed Palo Alto Research Center, whose scientists and engineers invented the modern personal computer in the 1970s and developed an array of other pioneering computing...Tags: Applied Physics, Stamford, Science, Computer Science, Ford Motor Co.
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J. Lynn Helms dies at 86; FAA chief fired striking air controllers
J. Lynn Helms, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration who carried out President Reagan's order to fire more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers and oversaw efforts to keep airlines flying during the crisis, has died. He was 86.
He...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Corporate Crime, Strikes, Air Transportation Industry, Aerospace Manufacturing
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Sundance 2012: Melanie Lynskey looking for love in 'Hello'
24 Frames"Hello I Must Be Going" is a romantic comedy in the Sundance style, a little bit dark in places but sprinkled with plenty of caustic wit. The movie played well, but there were a smattering of early departures from some buyers from the Thursday evening... -
St. Louis restaurant drops Albert Pujols' name, but statue stays
Sports NowThe owners of the Pujols 5 Westport Grill in St. Louis, named after former Cardinals star and new Angels first baseman Albert Pujols, are dropping the slugger's name from the restaurant, but a larger-than-life-sized bronze statue of Pujols pointing to....... -
Peter Falk dies at 83; actor found acclaim as 'Columbo'
Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had "just one more thing" to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83.
Falk,...Tags: High School Sports, Witnesses, Television, John Garfield, Clinton (Middlesex, Connecticut)
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Nobel winner dies before receiving prize
Dr. Ralph M. Steinman was a creative and dogged researcher who spent years convincing a doubting scientific community that he had found cells that were key to the working of the immune system.
Diagnosed in 2007 with pancreatic cancer, which usually kills...Tags: Immune System, Health and Safety at School, Awards and Prizes, Human Body, Chemotherapy
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Recording Academy, which awards Grammys, sells former headquarters
Money & CompanyDeveloper Trammell Crow Co. and investment firm Westport Capital Partners bought the unoccupied three-story office building at 3402 Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica... -
Stocks: How often does a 'correction' become a bear market?
Money & CompanyStocks’ brutal sell-off on Thursday pushed most major market indexes into “correction” territory -- meaning, a drop of more than 10% from their recent highs. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index (charted below) plunged 4.8% for the... -
Missouri's bloody Civil War battles
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Split state" used to sound simple to me, as though it were 50-50, North versus South, nice tidy halves. But Missouri wasn't just split in the Civil War. It was shattered. Rifts ran through every level of society all over the state — through...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, High School Sports, Bodies of Water, Manassas (Manassas, Virginia), Slavery
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Isolated and angry amid Fukushima nuclear crisis
An awful realization is setting in for those trapped in the vicinity of the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex: People are afraid to help them.
Residents describe spooky scenes of municipal cars driving down near-empty streets telling people to stay...Tags: National Government, Tsunamis, Social Issues, Tokyo (Japan), Natural Disasters
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