Extra, Extra

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• A reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of the people who doused a homeless man in gasoline and set him afire. The LA City Council approved the $75,000 reward by a unanimous vote and sent it to Mayor Villaraigosa for approval.
  
• Gamers, Electronics-Heads and Gadget-Freaks rejoice! E3 will be held in this great city through 2011!
  
• In the "What-the-Heck-Were-You-Thinking" Department; an Orange County woman left a small safe filled with over $500,000 worth of jewels in her unlocked car. You can guess what happened next...
  
• In a continuing trend of kids being screwed over by crappy people, a salmonella outbreak in LA preschools was traced back to a kitchen run by volunteers and spread through Head Start programs in the Valley and East Los Angeles.
  
• A Cal State Northridge grad student has been arrested in Iran and is being held in a Tehran prison for political prisoners. She was doing research for a woman's equal rights documentary when she was pulled over in traffic. The State Department is investigating but has limited options due to no diplomatic ties with Iran.
  
• Another suit has cropped up in the wake of the deadly train crash in Chatsworth. Metrolink is suing the company that provides them their engineers. Their board met today to discuss the lawsuit that was filed in federal court.
  
• Finally, Ron Howard, who admits that he is neither Republican nor Democrat, reprises his roles as Opie Taylor and Richie Cunningham to get behind Barack Obama. The latest in a series of videos put out by FunnyOrDie.com