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Cable television has become the top source of news about the presidential campaign, while fewer Americans turn to their local TV stations and the networks, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. While public attention to cable news has remained steady over the last four presidential cycles, the attention to other television outlets and to newspapers for election information has declined. Perhaps most surprisingly, the Pew survey found that the percentage of those saying they use the Internet to access campaign news has stayed about the same as it was four years ago. The percentage of the audience who say they regularly get information on the 2012 race was 36% from cable news, 32% from local TV, 26% from network TV, 25% from the Internet and 20% from newspapers.

The investigation into the death of Sage Stallone, eldest son of actor Sylvester Stallone, has headed in a pharmaceutical direction, with authorities looking into the source of large bottles of prescription medication found empty at the scene. Sage Stallone was found dead in his Studio City home on Friday. Though it was still unclear if prescription drugs played a part in the actor-writer-producer's unexpected death, the amount of empty bottles found was enough to merit investigation, law enforcement sources told L.A. Now . An autopsy was conducted over the weekend, with results still out pending toxicology tests.

An iPhone 5 launch in September has been confirmed by a "trusted AT&T source," according to a new report. The carrier plans to launch the sixth-generation iPhone in the third or fourth week of September, according to BGR's report . That time frame would put the next Apple smartphone's launch in line with the Sept. 21 date other reports have mentioned. Many expect Apple to unveil the phone on Sept. 12. Rumor roundup: The new iPhone But unlike other reports, BGR's is the first that gives some information on its source beyond something vague and along the lines of "someone with knowledge.

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Narcotics officers are checking confiscated stocks of cocaine in an attempt to trace the source of cocaine laced with cyanide that killed one drug user and may be responsible for causing four others to fall ill, police said Thursday. Both cocaine and cyanide were found in each of the five victims' bloodstreams, Lt. Bernard Bailey of the Salt Lake County sheriff's narcotics division said.

Former Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin has left the hospital where he spent more than a month with an acute viral infection, a source in the presidential medical center said. Yeltsin, 70, who steered Russia's transition to capitalism during nine years as Kremlin leader, has a record of health problems, and his latest long spell in the elite Central Clinical Hospital triggered rumors about a new deterioration.

ESPN is reporting that “an agreement in principle is at hand” between the NFL and locked-out officials, with the possibility that the regulars could be back on the field by this weekend. But an individual within the NFL Referees Assn. told The Times on Wednesday that the sides are not on the brink of an agreement and are continuing to negotiate with the help of a federal mediator. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak for the union, said a deal is not as close as has been reported.

A source close to the Cal State Fullerton basketball team said that Coach George McQuarn, who announced three weeks ago that he would resign, effective at the end of the season, told his team before Sunday's practice that he had changed his mind and would stay for at least two more years. The source, who asked not to be identified, also said three players had confirmed the story. Both Fullerton President Dr.

Albert A. Hakim, the Iranian-born California businessman who played a leading role in U.S. arms sales to Iran, approached the CIA in July, 1983, with a plan to gain favor with the Iranian government by selling it arms, a source familiar with the contact said Wednesday. The source, speaking on the condition that he not be identified, said Hakim contacted the CIA immediately after two apparent representatives of the Iranian government met with him at his office in San Jose.

It appears that baseball's longest-running soap opera finally will have its own producer. The Padres are expected to announce as early as Monday that the club will be sold for $75 million to television producer Tom Werner of Los Angeles and nine limited partners. The sale almost was completed a week ago, but a glitch occurred, a source close to the investment group said Saturday. However, the source said a letter of intent might be signed Monday.