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Extra, Extra: 'Yoga Girl' Hits New York, A New Rep for Skid Row, and Scandal in Beverly Hills
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- Lane Kiffin will be named 2011's Coach of the Year at the L.A. Sports Awards.
- Police officers caught a stray dog that they believe bit a three-year-old girl in Lancaster.
- A former Beverly Hills superintendent was convicted of giving a female employee $20,000 in gifts.
- Another Target superstore might be making its way to Hollywood.
- The maker of "Yoga Girl" is profiled in the New York Times Style section.
- A man died of an apparent drug overdose in the Echo Park apartment building that houses Chango Coffee.
- Skid Row profiled as "the world’s largest recovery community."
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