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- One person is reported dead after
a small plane crashed in Van Nuys
on Tuesday afternoon.
- Go Get Em Tiger, one of L.A.'s most exciting coffeeshops, is
coming to ROW DTLA in downtown
early next summer.
- Health experts tell athletes in Rio that it's OK to go into the water at the beaches. But they
warn against submerging one's head underwater
.
- Also, the Olympic golf course in Rio is
overrun with animals
.
- Here's a
comprehensive list of Donald Trump's business failures
. The "Taj Mahal" was one of them.
- As if things couldn't get any worse,
an asteroid might be headed our way.
- Have you ever wondered
how botulism was discovered
?
- Third Eye Blind is trolling the GOP hard . Are they the closest thing to punk in 2016? (Probably not.)
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