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Extra, Extra: Sheriff Lee Baca's Illegal Endorsement, A Vintage Farewell to Streetcars & the Hazards of Skydiving
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- Sheriff Lee Baca admits he broke the law in his endorsement of Carmen Trutanich
- LA Times columnist Steve Lopez writes about his father's last days
- A skydiver was killed during a competition today
- A man whose wife drowned one of their daughters (and attempted to drown another one) is speaking out and saying his wife, too, was a victim
- A video farewell to streetcars in the 1960s
- A teacher's aide is accused of abandoning her daughter, who was found naked and eating out of a trash can
- A Wisconsin girl scout leader had to step down from her troop position because of her husband's "evil" and "satanic" website
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