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- A Westminster synagogue held its first same-sex marriage while 100 people watched. Congratulations to Devorah Allen and Victoria de los Reyes!
- A 14-year-old OC girl was stabbed in the middle of the day yesterday while walking home from breakfast with a friend. She was treated and released and the suspect taken into custody.
- The man who was thought to have died at the conclusion of a police chase car crash (while driving the missing vehicle of a homicide victim) actually died of a self-inflicted gunshot.
- More airline industry woes landing at our LAX; now international carriers are cutting flights in and out of Los Angeles.
- Several Los Angeles-area hospitals are now facing fines for making health-related mistakes that include leaving surgical tools inside patients and over-medicating individuals.
- The results are in... for 5 Emmy Award recipients in the Creative Arts categories that are juried.
- It's not illegal to declaw pets, and now the state says it's illegal to try to make it illegal. Got it?
- Hope you saved room for dessert, because there's a whole other plate full to digest in the Doughboys close-down saga.
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