• Nataline Sarkisyan, the 17-year-old Northridge girl who died two weeks ago because her health care provider denied funding of a liver transplant, was buried yesterday.
  
• $151 million: That's the amount in salary and benefits that the The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers say that writers have lost since the beginning of the strike.
  
• $10.64: The new minimum wage or "so-called living wage" for workers at hotels near LAX.
  
• More than a 1,000 Muslims came to the Islamic Center of Southern California to remember "assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and [to] condemn violence done in the name of Islam."
  
• A California woman with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis flew from India to Chicago to San Francisco and now the CDC is looking for 44 people in 17 states who sat near her on those flights.
  
• A 23-year-old man was kidnapped from his Laguna Niguel home and taken to a Washington Mutual ATM to withdraw money. Luckily, a Orange County Sheriff happened to be rolling by.
  
• Donald Yeomans, manager of the Near Earth Object Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena talks about an asteroid that is headed in the direction of Mars at about 28,000 miles per hour.
  
• Headling to draw attention: Global Warming to Alter California Landscape
  

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