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- A new apartment complex in Pasadena will soon be one of the largest in Los Angeles County to be entirely smoke-free.
- Blast from the past had its last launch yesterday: "The Space Shuttle fleet's main engines were all built in the early 1980s at the North American Rockwell company's Rocketdyne plant on Canoga Avenue," says the Daily News.
- A teenager did some impressive detective work to help catch the person who dog-napped his puppy right out of his hands.
- The OC's first ever Kids Restaurant Week has named 30 eateries slated to participate.
- California's first stem cell research lab has opened up at UC Irvine.
- See how one special JetBlue flight to Long Beach was in the pink yesterday.
- Does Rialto have a haunted church on their hands?
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