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- Frank McCourt is heading to New York to talk to MLB executives about the future of the franchise.
- A man who kidnapped another man, shot him, beat him and held him for $1 million in ransom money has been sentenced to 17 years in jail.
- Dodger Andre Ethier set a major league record with a 23-game hitting streak this month.
- $1.5 million in jewelry was stolen at gunpoint from someone wearing the jewels in Santa Monica.
- A 12-year-old Inglewood girl sold three feet of her hair after her first-ever haircut to a group that helps local cancer patients.
- A man who attacked a 15-year-old girl on her way to school is at large.
- A SoCal dairy cow tested positive for tuberculosis.
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