Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:47 PM EST
A man serving time for killing his infant son and trekking around the country with the child's body pleaded not guilty Friday to doing the same thing to his baby daughter.
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:34 PM EDT
Michelle Triola Marvin whose landmark lawsuit against her former lover, "Dirty Dozen" actor Lee Marvin, placed the word "palimony" into the family law lexicon and changed the legal rights of unmarried cohabiting partners, died Friday at age 76.
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Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:28 PM EDT
Federal immigration officials have settled a lawsuit that claimed suspected illegal immigrants were kept in "barbaric" conditions in a downtown Los Angeles detention center, civil rights groups announced Wednesday.
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Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:50 PM EDT
Two Los Angeles County firefighters were killed Sunday when their vehicle rolled down a mountain side amid the intense flames of a wildfire that threatened 12,000 homes. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged those in the fire's path to get out as the blazes rained ash on cars as far away as downtown Los Angeles, spreading in all directions in dry conditions.
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Wed Aug 5, 2009 5:49 PM EDT
One of the two U.S. journalists imprisoned in North Korea for 4 1/2 months said Tuesday she has spent much of her first week of freedom catching up on playtime with her 4-year-old daughter and reacquainting herself with simple day-to-day pleasures like going for a walk.
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Wed Aug 5, 2009 12:53 PM EDT
Two American journalists who returned home Wednesday after being held nearly five months in North Korea were separated and fed bad food during their ordeal, but their families never lost faith that they would come back.
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Wed Aug 5, 2009 9:53 AM EDT
Two American journalists who returned home Wednesday after being held nearly five months in North Korea were separated and fed bad food during their ordeal, but their families never lost faith that they would come back.
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Tue Aug 4, 2009 8:54 PM EDT
Two American journalists freed by North Korea have returned home to the United States on a flight with former President Bill Clinton.
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Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:22 PM EDT
Gidget the Chihuahua, the bug-eyed, big-eared star of 1990s Taco Bell commercials who was a diva on and off the screen, has died. She was 15. Gidget suffered a massive stroke late Tuesday night at her trainer's home in Santa Clarita and had to be euthanized, said Karin McElhatton, owner of Studio Animal Services in Castaic, which owned the dog.
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Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:59 PM EDT
Gidget the Chihuahua, the bug-eyed, big-eared star of 1990s Taco Bell commercials who was a diva on and off the screen, has died. She was 15.
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Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:05 AM EST
While carmakers have their hands out to Congress, a kindly soul showed up in a car to deliver his own bailout to those on Skid Row.
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Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:15 PM EST
Majel Barrett Roddenberry, "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry's widow who nurtured the legacy of the seminal science fiction TV series after his death, has died. She was 76. Roddenberry died of leukemia Thursday morning at her home in Bel-Air, said Sean Rossall, a family spokesman.
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Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:11 AM EST
Flights resumed in and out of Las Vegas, but schools and highways were closed Thursday after a record-setting snowfall coated marquees on the Strip, weighed down palm trees and blanketed surrounding mountain areas.
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Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:51 PM EST
Michael Jackson may be too ill to travel to London to testify in a suit which claims he owes an Arab sheikh $7 million, the pop star's lawyer said Tuesday.
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Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:34 PM EDT
Jack Narz, a longtime game show host who was an early victim of the quiz show scandals of the 1950s when a show he was hosting was canceled, has died. He was 85.
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Sun Jul 6, 2008 12:35 AM EDT
Firefighters "turned the corner" Saturday on a wildfire that destroyed part of a town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, one of the hundreds of blazes that continue to char huge swaths of California.
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Thu May 29, 2008 7:13 PM EDT
Alexander "Sandy" Courage, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated arranger, orchestrator and composer who created the otherworldly theme for the classic "Star Trek" TV show, has died. He was 88.
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Tue May 27, 2008 7:27 PM EDT
Earle H. Hagen, who co-wrote the jazz classic "Harlem Nocturne" and composed memorable themes for "The Andy Griffith Show," "I Spy," "The Mod Squad" and other TV shows, has died. He was 88.
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Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:00 PM EDT
Fire tore through a hip nightclub at the storied corner of Hollywood and Vine on Wednesday, covering the landmark-studded neighborhood with smoke and ash. No injuries were reported.
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Sun Mar 2, 2008 1:38 AM EST
The Navy must abide by limits on its sonar training off the Southern California because the exercises could harm dozens of species of whales and dolphins, a federal appeals court ruled.
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Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:15 PM EST
Swaths of California were bracing for another bout of heavy weather as a fresh series of storms swirled toward the state.
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:10 PM EST
Civil rights activists sued a hospital Thursday for releasing a paraplegic, mentally ill man who was found crawling in a Skid Row gutter in what the lawsuit describes as an "obscene" case of homeless dumping.
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:41 PM EST
Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a century after his death while authoring her own books, has died. She was 96.
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Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:15 PM EST
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, an American Indian activist, actor and folk singer who appeared in "Dances with Wolves" and performed with Willie Nelson and other musicians, has died. He was 71.
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Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:08 PM EST
Longtime "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek was hospitalized Tuesday after a minor heart attack, a spokesman for the game show said. Trebek, 67, was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center late Monday night and was expected to remain there about two days for tests and observation, said show spokesman Jeff Ritter.
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