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Extra Extra: Primary Night, Take Two!
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- It's all about last minute campaigning for the Democrats in Ohio and Texas; as of this writing, both primaries are still too close to call (Obama & McCain have taken Vermont).
- More updates on this morning's story about Margaret Seltzer, the author who fabricated a "memoir" about growing up as a white, female gangbanger in L.A.'s South Central.
- Congrats to LATimes.com! They hit over ONE HUNDRED million page views for the month of February, a record for the paper's online arm. Way to score one for new media, guys!
- A six-year-old boy was shot in the head near the Del Amo shopping center today; he was riding in a car with relatives when a pedestrian opened fire.
- Now that Warner Bros. is "folding" New Line into their greedy little arms,what happens to New Line's scripts? "As a 'transition team' reshapes the new New Line division into something more like Dimension Films or Screen Gems, many scripts in its possession are going to have to move out."
- A man in Claremont killed himself after wounding his wife during an argument: the woman was rushed to the hospital, but remains in stable condition.
- A Metrolink train crashed into a tractor-trailer in Camarillo today, no injuries were reported.
- How about some frivolity today? You like frivolity? I do! Well here's a chuckle for ya: KFed is getting fat! It must be stress weight.
- Conversations on foster care...at an Oscar party? Via LA Weekly.
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