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- Authorities in Burbank are investigating a fire that tore through a warehouse full of scented oils last night.
- Campus police at UC San Diego are looking into an incident involving a noose left in a stairwell in a performance arts building.
- Mickey Ross, an Emmy Award-winning television writer who died last year, left $10M and half his residuals to the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Another woman has come forward and alleged she was raped by exiled director Roman Polanski in 1974.
- Yikes! Rabid bats have been found living in Orange County.
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