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Published Aug 1, 2011 11:00 PM

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A sculpture of a blue penis popped up and then disappeared in Echo Park.
Two people were killed in a car crash in Pomona.
No coyotes were shot after a three-day permit was enacted for a company to kill the animals expired.
A married couple in Orange County have been arrested after faking the husband's death.
Gabrielle Giffords returned to Washington to vote on the debt-ceiling bill.
A tour leads pedestrians down stretches of Wilshire Blvd.
According to a bill signed by Governor Jerry Brown, juries and judges won't be able to rely solely on testimony provided by jailhouse informants to make convictions.

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