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Extra, Extra: Feds' Role in 'Occupy' Crackdown, Casting Director Is Sex Offender, Catholic Diocese Buys Crystal Cathedral
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- Was the federal government involved in coordinating widespread local crackdowns on the "Occupy" movement?
- The local diocese of the Catholic church bought the Crystal Cathedral.
- It turns out a Hollywood casting director who worked with JJ Abrams — and more crucially, young children — had a record as a child molester and kidnapper.
- The city attorney plans to press charges against protestors.
- The captain of the boat Natalie Wood was on before she died admits that he was pretty trashed the night she drowned.
- The city council voted to replace the crumbling 6th Street bridge with a modern cable bridge.
- Protesting rising tuition in the state? Mark Lacter says you should blame the 52 percent of Californians who would refused to pay higher taxes to bring tuition down.
- Alright, who let the air out of the tires of an LAPD squad car?
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