Carole Meyers, the first female rabbi to lead a congregation in L.A., died at age 50 of bone cancer this past Thursday. A month-old wildfire in Santa Barbara County continued to grow and burned through another 1,000 acres, prompting evacuation orders for a dozen homes. An LAPD officer was killed earlier today after crashing his motorcycle on the 101 freeway. The Belmont Shore team won the 2007 ViewSonic Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival yesterday.......

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Five years after 9/11 there are still plenty of unanswered questions. The White House has been defensive about any sort of investigations into the attacks, even doing their best to stop the formation of the 9/11 Committee. They refuse to allow captured suspected terrorists to have civilian trials which would be part of the public record, and are pressing for military tribunals which would be kept private, and even Saturday on Meet The Press,......

Day 4 Recap: - President George W. Bush took center stage last night, accepting the GOP nomination and trumpeting his administration's record over the last four years. In the Bizarro world of W's mind, phony Medicare "reform" is not really a sop to huge drug companies; tax cuts that have fueled a record breaking budget deficit are growing the economy, not tanking it; millions of lost jobs were the fault of Bill Clinton and......