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- A man wanted for a Christmas Eve homicide in Modesto was found sleeping on the beach in Venice.
- CSUN student David Everson pleaded guilty to charges he had explosives and was carrying a gun on campus.
- The LA County coroner's office says the body found by actor Peter Fonda was likely a case of suicide.
- Senator Barbara Boxer takes to the HuffPo to explain why she thinks repealing health care will harm our country.
- Supervisor Mike Antonovich is expected to call for the creation of a "woodland habitat" as part of the controversial Santa Anita dam dredging project.
- Ailing actress Zsa Zsa Gabor underwent surgery today to have about three-fourths of her right leg amputated.
- Today's South Bay History column looks back at the Los Angeles Motordome.
- Are you pumped for the opening of the Rolling Stone Restaurant at Hollywood & Highland? Yeah, same here.
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