After seven years of soul-searching, federal officials on Thursday agreed to allow tow-in surfing at California’s most famous big-wave riding spot, known as Mavericks, as part of a major expansion of federal rules governing three marine sanctuaries.The revised rules ban chumming for great white sharks around San Francisco’s Farallon Islands for thrill-seeking divers in cages and photo-snapping tourists – rules that have long been enforced closer to shore in waters colloquially known as the Bloody
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The recently ousted executive director of the state panel on unemployment benefit appeals incurred “unnecessary and wasteful” travel expenses, including excessively costly hotels and rental cars that went largely unused, the state auditor said in a report Thursday.
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By Phil Willon |
12:00AM, November 21
Los Angeles Controller Laura Chick and City Atty.
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Over the objection of nurses, the
UC Regents on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to transfer most of
UC Irvine Medical Center’s pediatric unit to nearby Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
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Nearly one week after the devastating Sayre fire began, fire officials said Thursday evening that they had fully contained the blaze, which burned through 17 square miles and destroyed more than 500 structures.
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A reputed drug dealer’s five-year prison sentence has been overturned and the charges dismissed after Los Angeles County prosecutors conceded this week that police included false information in an arrest report to protect the identity of a confidential informant.
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Alarmed by reports that Los Angeles County mental health staff – hobbled by a countywide shortage of beds for the mentally ill – are increasingly forwarding emergency calls to police, commissioners overseeing the department on Thursday asked that a plan to end the practice be presented by early next month.
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Walter
W. Hoffman, a son of a Ventura County founding family who was instrumental in getting the present Museum of Ventura County built, died Nov.
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Attorneys who prevail in lawsuits brought in the public interest are entitled to compensation for their work, the California Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision Thursday.
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Last week, before Jeffrey Rawitz had begun cross-examining the government’s star witness in the Mike Carona corruption trial, someone asked during a recess how long the questioning would last.
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Sheriff’s officials said Los Altos High School was under “routine” lockdown this morning as search warrants were being served to assault suspects in nearby Hacienda Heights.
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By Phil Willon |
12:00AM, November 21
Los Angeles city officials – facing an expected $110-million budget shortfall – are being urged to act quickly to cut funding to libraries, the Los Angeles Zoo, tree trimming and crossing guards programs, among other municipal services.
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Felicitas Conde, 60, loves to walk.
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LAX officials say the busy holiday airline travel season will see a slump this year.
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12:00AM, November 21
Art dealer Jan Krugier, an Auschwitz survivor who collected the works of Picasso and other renowned artists to help himself move past the horrors of the Nazi era, has died in Switzerland.
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In one of the largest marijuana seizures in
U.S. Coast Guard history, a cutter scooped up nearly 10,000 pounds of marijuana thrown overboard by a speedboat off the coast of Baja California earlier this week.
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University of California regents took a symbolic step Thursday in an effort to avoid or reduce the 9.4% increase in undergraduate student fees that university officials have said they anticipate next year.
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A Midwestern mother accused of using a fake MySpace account to torment a teenager who later committed suicide thought the plan was a clever and funny way to deal with a girl she suspected was spreading lies about her daughter, according to witnesses Thursday.
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In one of the largest marijuana seizures in its history, a
U.S. Coast Guard cutter scooped up more than 130 bales of marijuana thrown overboard by a speedboat off the coast of Baja California.
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