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Extra, Extra: Cyclops Shark, Butter-Flavored Lip Balm, and Why the Rose Parade is "Never on Sunday"
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- Something you didn't realize you needed in life: Paula Deen's butter-flavored lip balm.
- Cyclops shark is likely not a feat of Photoshop!
- A Santa Ana man has pleaded guilty to setting girlfriend on fire.
- Investigators say the plane carrying pro off-road racer Rick Huseman and two others crashed while attempting an emergency landing. All three men aboard died in the crash.
- It's official: Flu season has arrived in L.A. County.
- True, R.E.M. is broken up, and Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore are divorcing, but, hey, The Stone Roses are reuniting!
- After writing about the just-named 94th Rose Queen, we read up on why in 2012 the Parade and Game will be on January 2.
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