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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.
Photo by Christine Kelly via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr
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