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Extra, Extra: Downtown Sign Points The Way To Gentrification

- A downtown sign was hacked to point the way to gentrification
- SeaWorld has a new orca
- Anonymous threatens a cyberattack after the death of Christopher Dorner
- A bureaucracy and inept workforce have created a system in the Los Angeles County's child protective agency that allows children to remain in unsafe homes and even die at the hands of their caretakers, according to a new report
- Tom Cruise filed a $50 million lawsuit against the publisher of Life & Style magazine
- Dorner's body was ID'd through dental records
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