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Extra, Extra: A Graverobber, the Last Silent Film Star and Another Bryan Stow Lawsuit
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- The McCourts are suing the two men charged in the Bryan Stow beating.
- Councilman Mitchell Englander says it's time for the city to drop the Arizona boycott.
- Barbara Kent, the last remaining silent film actress, died at 103.
- The Financial District is totally over the Occupy LA thing. (Were they ever into it?)
- A suspected graverobber in Rancho Palos Verdes was arrested.
- First, the Rapture was postponed, and now the Rampture has been postponed.
- A state agency is fining Edison, NextG Networks of California, Sprint Telephone and AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless $99 million for safety violations that the Consumer Protection and Safety Division said started a 2007 fire in Malibu.
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