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- An off-duty LAPD officer was shot early this morning as he left his City Terrace home to go play golf. The suspects fled, and the officer, a 14-year vet is expected to make it.
- A 4.4 quake rattled in Kern County today--anyone with super-sensory skills feel it?
- 2 women were arrested at LAX this morning for possession of illegal drugs. Their names, and the kinds of drugs they were carrying have not been released.
- 6 teenagers were found roaming around a Valencia bookstore last night--not because they didn't know what to make of those book-things, but most likely because they'd taken a narcotic or medication.
- USC Medical Center has come under scrutiny for employing a convicted rapist as an X-Ray tech for 10 years. The employee was fired last August.
- A woman died this morning when she crashed her car on the 10 Freeway near Fairplex Drive in Pomona.
- Did you notice the major Google search FAIL this morning?
- The judge who presided over the custody case of the late Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Danielynn finally met the toddler and declared Larry Birkhead to be a great dad.
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