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- If you've got a car, you've probably felt some pain at the pump thanks to rising gas prices. Also hurting from the same pain: L.A.'s roving crop of food trucks.
- Beverly Hills-based fashion legend Bijan Pakzad has died.
- Authorities in Glendale had a homemade grenade on their hands last night, and the LA Co. Bomb Squad was called in to safely detonate the device.
- Mashable has a little fun with their list of "15 Movie Cliché Supercuts That Poke Fun at Hollywood."
- After a seven-month-long recovery, an 83-year-old hit and run victim returned to his Pasadena home yesterday.
- Actor Nic Cage has been sprung from jail in New Orleans after his arrest on charges of disturbing the peace and domestic battery.
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