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- 15-year-old Rachel Lester has been elected to the South Robertson Neighborhood Council for a two-year term. She's the youngest neighborhood councilmember in L.A. and beat her opponent 144 to 13 votes.
- A small patch of land got some beautification over the weekend at Silver Lake and Parkman.
- Nice close-up photo of a young-looking mountain lion in the L.A. neighborhood of Tujunga.
- Have you heard “Love Song for Jeffrey Dahmer”? Susannah Breslin at True/Slant interviews local singer-songwriter Dudley Saunders about it.
- "California gun laws prevented Pentagon gunman from buying gun."
- Thanks to bankruptcy, it has sat empty since September, but that could change after today's sale approval of downtown's tallest residential tower.
- Intelligentsia this weekend took top honors at the U.S. Barista Championship in Anaheim.
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