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Extra, Extra: Where Borders Bookcases Go to Die, What Hollywood Knew About Osama bin Laden Secret Raid & 6 Projects That Will Shape Downtown
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- Investigators are probing whether Hollywood filmmakers, including "The Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow, knew too much about the Osama bin Laden secret raid
- Study says California workers pay more and get less for their employer-provided insurance
- Downtown News looks at 6 projects that will shape the neighborhood in the coming year
- Where Borders bookcases go to die.
- Until now, Zola Jesus hasn't given anyone the OK to remix her songs: "But when David Lynch asks to remix your song, you let him."
- SoCal connected has a story about one of the 292 Occupy L.A. Raid Arrestees Martha Lewis.
- Mariah Carey's husband Nick Cannon was transferred to a local hospital after experiencing mild kidney failure.
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