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- Gas prices in SoCal have hit an 8-month high.
- Authorities in Ventura County are investigating the mysterious dead body and bones found at two beaches this weekend.
- Why did rocker Roger Waters deface the Elliott Smith memorial wall in Silver Lake?
- Uh oh, Eyjafjallajokull! The Icelandic volcano forced airspace over the UK to shut down again today after more ash drifted across European skies.
- Shopping mall mogul Rick Caruso is slated to take up talks again in the coming weeks to revive a stalled project that would develop a retail project in what's now the parking lot of the Santa Anita racetrack.
- There's a big reward being offered up for information on the "20 Questions" bank robbers.
- People are starting to wonder if GOP Senatorial hopeful Carly Fiorina's campaign is already fading out.
- NBC is now claiming TV funnyman Conan O'Brien lied about what really went down as he described in Sunday night's 60 Minutes interview.
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