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Extra, Extra: Local Calls for Impeachment and the 105 Freeway Closing
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- All eastbound lanes between Sepulveda and La Cienega boulevards on the 105 Freeway will be closed from 3 AM to midnight this weekend and next for filming.
- L.A. 11st District City Councilman Bill Rosendahl introduced a resolution today to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
- An ideal way to find all the farmers' markets in the L.A. region: LA Farmers' Market Mapplet.
- Jamie Foxx is shooting for another Oscar with his next role as brilliant, mentally troubled Skid Row musician Nathaniel Anthony Ayers in the biopic The Soloist.
- C'mon Scott and Dorrell: you guys need to get your story straight!
- What a sick, sick person: a teacher at the John Marshall High School in Los Feliz is under investigation for sexual misconduct with special ed students.
- Steven Seagal wants the FBI to apologize to him for killing (what little was left of) his "career."
- Whole Foods gets the go-ahead to buy out Wild Oats and thus expand its healthy/organic food empire.
- According to the No. 2 American commander in Iraq, the troops sent as part of the surge will start returning home in the spring of 2008 and will have completed the withdrawal by August.
- You mean to tell me the Bush administration actually lied about its claim to hold closed-door briefings with General Petraeus about the surge? Hard to believe...
- Poor Tony Snow: 'cuz he's only making a measly $168,000 per year in his gig as White House press secretary, he's planning on leaving the administration for financial reasons.
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