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60 People Treated for Skin Irritation After a Plane Dumps Fuel Over School Near LAX
Some 60 people were treated for skin irritation Tuesday after a plane dumped jet fuel over an elementary school east of Los Angeles International Airport. Seventeen children and nine adults at Park Avenue Elementary School in the 8000 block of Park Avenue in Cudahy complained of skin irritation, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Students and staff members…
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Founded in 1983 to Serve LAX, SuperShuttle is Going Out of Business
The seemingly ever-present blue and yellow vans have been part of the blur of activity at LAX for nearly four decades. SuperShuttle, the shared ride service founded in 1983 to serve the airport, is coming to a stop — for good. The service will cease operations by the end of the year, according to a letter from the company to…
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Hiker Haunted by Last Images of Man Who Vanished on Mt. Baldy
The search for a 52-year-old Irvine man who went missing while hiking with three other people in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles was set to resume Thursday morning, a day after a candlelight vigil was held in the man’s honor.
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Fourth Attacker Sentenced in the Beating Death of USC Grad Student
A 22-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for a brutal baseball bat attack that killed a USC electrical engineering graduate student.
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Colorado Man Arrested in 1973 Killing of 11-Year-Old Girl Featured in Police Twitter Campaign
A man has been arrested in a 1973 murder of an 11-year-old in Newport Beach girl whose mysterious disappearance was featured by police in a Twitter campaign.
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Fugitive Wanted in LA Sex Assault is Shot and Killed at North Carolina Motel
The cross-country search for a fugitive wanted in an armed sexual assault of a woman in her West Los Angeles home and other assaults in Southern California came to an end when he was shot and killed by federal agents at a North Carolina motel.
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Survival of the Wettest: Mountain Lion Chases Deer Into a Backyard Pool
When a Glendale couple noticed water around the edges of their backyard pool, they suspected something fell in overnight. They were surprised by the wild scene captured at 4 a.m. by their security camera. A determined mountain lion and the deer it was hunting can be seen bolting from the brush behind the Wongs’ home, splashing into the pool in...
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Woman Died After She Was Struck by Baseball at Dodger Stadium
A woman died as a result of being struck in the head by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium last August, according to a coroner’s report
