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- LA City Council candidate Stephen Box, running for a seat in CD4, has been endorsed by food trucks.
- Oops...the driver of a Mitsubishi rear-ended a police car, then abandoned their vehicle on a nearby street.
- Print is not dead! Magic Johnson has invested in the company that owns Vibe magazine.
- Daryl Osby was named today as the chief of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, and is the first African-American to hold the position.
- Vernon, a city just southeast of downtown with a population of 91, may soon cease to exist.
- An autopsy is pending for a 30-year-old man who was killed when a trench collapsed on a construction site yesterday.
- A fight between two brothers-in-law culminated in one being injured by the other's machete.
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