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Extra, Extra: LA Triathlon Traps Downtown Residents
- Steve Lopez randomly challenges Dodgers Pitcher Derek Lowe to a golfing home run derby at the stadium for charity. Steve loses and donates $500 to the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA.
- A journal of sorts following Kristina Ripatti, the LAPD Officer who was shot and paralyzed while on duty in June of 2006.
- There are only two places in the states where you can be a police officer whose job is to board cruise ships before they hit mainland. One of those is with the Los Angeles Port Police (a separate agency form the LAPD).
- Protecting bad drivers from you: smart cameras at intersections.
- It was World Rabies Day in Los Angeles yesterday?
- Up north in Alameda County, a judge lets a carpenter continue working in the nude.
- The quakes keep heading south. Last night, a 4.0 off the coast of San Diego.
- The LA Triathlon once again traps Downtown residents in their homes, forcing mass sleeping in or leisurely and long brunches.
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