Football: Four sites under consideration to host City Section finals

City Section Commissioner John Aguirre said he was finally able to make contact with USC officials in trying to see if the Coliseum might be available to host the City Section football finals on Dec. 6. The Coliseum, Valley College, Southwest College...

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Erotica publisher Ellora's Cave sues Dear Author book blog

Erotica publisher Ellora's Cave has sued the Dear Author book blog and its proprietor Jane Little, alleging defamation. The publisher is seeking injunctive relief, monetary damages of $25,000 or more and the identity of the blog's commenters. ...

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Erotica publisher Ellora's Cave sues Dear Author book blog

Erotica publisher Ellora's Cave has sued the Dear Author book blog and its proprietor Jane Little, alleging defamation. The publisher is seeking injunctive relief, monetary damages of $25,000 or more and the identity of the blog's commenters. ...

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Football: Four sites under consideration to host City Section finals

City Section Commissioner John Aguirre said he was finally able to make contact with USC officials in trying to see if the Coliseum might be available to host the City Section football finals on Dec. 6. The Coliseum, Valley College, Southwest College...

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U.S. troops to stay in Afghanistan after historic transfer of power

Afghanistan's new government plans to sign a strategic agreement Tuesday with the United States that would allow for approximately 10,000 U.S. troops to remain in the country after the U.S.-led NATO coalition's mandate expires in December. U.S. officials...

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31 hikers presumed dead after Japanese volcano erupts

Four hikers were confirmed dead Sunday and another 27 were presumed to have perished after their lifeless bodies were found on Japan's volcanic Mt. Ontake, which erupted Saturday morning without warning. At least 30 more people were injured, and a search...

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Paris Fashion Week: At Kenzo, a skate park but no skaters

Kenzo designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon coaxed the fashion crowd to a skateboard park in the 17th arrondissement bright and early Sunday during Paris Fashion Week. But curiously, the collection they sent down the ramps wasn't worn by skaters and...

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Five things we learned in USC's victory over Oregon State

Eighteenth-ranked USC defeated Oregon State, 35-10, on Saturday at the Coliseum. USC improved to 3-1 overall and 2-0 in the Pac-12 Conference. Here are five things we learned about the Trojans: Ability to bounce back USC proved in its 35-10 victory...

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Members of Congress agree on this: No cellphone calls on planes

If passengers can divert a commercial plane by feuding over reclining seats, imagine the squabbles that will erupt if fliers are allowed to make loud telephone calls while crammed together in an airline cabin. That was one of the arguments more than...

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31 hikers presumed dead after Japanese volcano erupts

Four hikers were confirmed dead Sunday and another 27 were presumed to have perished after their lifeless bodies were found on Japan's volcanic Mt. Ontake, which erupted Saturday morning without warning. At least 30 more people were injured, and a search...

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How did UnitedHealth let so many questionable claims slip past?

Here's how the nation's largest health insurance company aided and abetted what it says was a $43-million healthcare fraud. In a lawsuit filed recently in federal court in Los Angeles, UnitedHealth Group says it paid out the $43 million to an interconnected...

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How did UnitedHealth let so many questionable claims slip past?

Here's how the nation's largest health insurance company aided and abetted what it says was a $43-million healthcare fraud. In a lawsuit filed recently in federal court in Los Angeles, UnitedHealth Group says it paid out the $43 million to an interconnected...

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Marine held in Mexican jail losing hope he'll be freed, mother says

A Marine held in a Mexican prison for six months is set for a court hearing Monday amid concern by his mother that he has become "highly despondent." "He's definitely losing hope and confidence he will be able to get out of jail," Jill Tahmooressi told...

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How did UnitedHealth let so many questionable claims slip past?

Here's how the nation's largest health insurance company aided and abetted what it says was a $43-million healthcare fraud. In a lawsuit filed recently in federal court in Los Angeles, UnitedHealth Group says it paid out the $43 million to an interconnected...

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How did UnitedHealth let so many questionable claims slip past?

Here's how the nation's largest health insurance company aided and abetted what it says was a $43-million healthcare fraud. In a lawsuit filed recently in federal court in Los Angeles, UnitedHealth Group says it paid out the $43 million to an interconnected...

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Meg Wolitzer's 'Belzhar' nurses its teens back to emotional health

Meg Wolitzer's fiction has attracted a great many superlatives over the last three decades. "The Interestings," published last year, prompted a reviewer for the Guardian to declare Wolitzer a "writer of prodigious energy and detail." The New York Times'...

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Meg Wolitzer's 'Belzhar' nurses its teens back to emotional health

Meg Wolitzer's fiction has attracted a great many superlatives over the last three decades. "The Interestings," published last year, prompted a reviewer for the Guardian to declare Wolitzer a "writer of prodigious energy and detail." The New York Times'...

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Lodrick M. Cook Rotunda a gem of the Los Angeles Central Library

The Central Library in downtown Los Angeles might not have the historical gravitas of the New York Public Library's lion-flanked headquarters. Or the architectural edge of Seattle's angular Central Library (completed 2004). Or the rooftop splendor of...

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Lodrick M. Cook Rotunda a gem of the Los Angeles Central Library

The Central Library in downtown Los Angeles might not have the historical gravitas of the New York Public Library's lion-flanked headquarters. Or the architectural edge of Seattle's angular Central Library (completed 2004). Or the rooftop splendor of...

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Meg Wolitzer's 'Belzhar' nurses its teens back to emotional health

Meg Wolitzer's fiction has attracted a great many superlatives over the last three decades. "The Interestings," published last year, prompted a reviewer for the Guardian to declare Wolitzer a "writer of prodigious energy and detail." The New York Times'...

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Late-night text may have landed Webb Simpson on Ryder Cup team

Now the story can be told -- Webb Simpson may have talked his way onto the U.S. Ryder Cup team by way of a post-midnight text to captain Tom Watson. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Simpson discussed failing to qualify for one of the first...

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Woman beaten by CHP officer settles, but activists 'want him in prison'

Civil rights activists plan to launch a new campaign Thursday for the criminal prosecution of a California Highway Patrol officer caught on video repeatedly punching a woman on the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles, saying the officer's resignation and a $1.5-million...

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Woman beaten by CHP officer settles, but activists 'want him in prison'

Civil rights activists plan to launch a new campaign Thursday for the criminal prosecution of a California Highway Patrol officer caught on video repeatedly punching a woman on the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles, saying the officer's resignation and a $1.5-million...

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Woman beaten by CHP officer settles, but activists 'want him in prison'

Civil rights activists plan to launch a new campaign Thursday for the criminal prosecution of a California Highway Patrol officer caught on video repeatedly punching a woman on the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles, saying the officer's resignation and a $1.5-million...

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Baseball: If it's Thursday, it's time for a Ping Pong tournament at JSerra

They've played Bubble Soccer, dressed up as medieval warriors for larping and engaged in Slip-N-Slide, rolling around in water. If it's Thursday, it's time for a new off-season activitiy for the JSerra baseball team. A 64-team table tennis bracket...

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Wild architecture makes German cinema come alive at LACMA

Movies can be great. Art can be great. But put them together in a museum exhibition, and the combination can be not-so-great. In fact, it can be downright tedious: acres of wall space jammed with photos and film posters, all punctuated by dim projection...

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Renewed vandalism, arrests mar the night in Ferguson, Mo.

Tensions again boiled over in Ferguson, Mo., as a crowd of people smashed the windows of at least one store and three people were arrested in the suburb that has become the latest symbol of the continuing racial woes in the United States. Tuesday's...

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