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Extra, Extra: Pissing of George Bush from Los Angeles
- Sunday Morning Travel Alert: Caltrans will close the northbound San Diego Freeway (I-405) connectors to the east and westbound Ventura Freeway (U.S. 101), Sunday from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. for maintenance work.
-UK based Tesco will launch Fresh & Easy Neighbourhood Markets in Los Angeles stocking healthy, chilled food in 10,000 sq. ft. spaces.
- The Parker Center, LAPD HQ, was evacuated today over a bomb scare. It was just a suitcase.
- Excessive nudity and illegal contact with patrons at the Pleasures Gentlemen's Club in Pasadena led to citations for 14 performers.
- 2,300 bicyclists rode into LA today from San Francisco for AIDS/LifeCycle.
- California lawmakers, some of whom are no longer in office, filed 54 auto insurance claims during the the past two years amounting to $90,000, many for accidents and damage they caused.
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- Bree Walker, a former TV news anchorwoman who hosts a weekend talk show on KTLK-AM here in LA has purchased land for $87,000 near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, from anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan. She plans to build a peace memorial on the property and keep it open to protesters.
- The Paris story never ends...
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