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- Police in Alhambra are investigating the case of a man found bloody on a neighbor's porch, who claimed just before he died days later he had been assaulted.
- The trucker whose runaway big rig killed a man and his daughter a year ago in La Cañada will indeed face murder charges, says a state appeals court.
- The LAUSD today decided to hold off revoking out-of-district permits from current students, but will revisit the policy for the 2011-12 school year come September.
- While West Coast Choppers' Jesse James is rumored to have a cache of homemade Nazi-themed sex tapes starring himself with various women, his estranged wife Sandra Bullock asserts there is no sex tape involving her.
- Blogdowntown looks at The Alexandria, a "ghost building" that is up for sale after a 75-year vacancy.
- Intelligentsia's Pasadena digs have been revealed, and it looks like they're applying for a beer and wine permit.
- Tech-web rumor du jour: Yahoo! is planning to buy Foursquare.
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