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- A group of people protesting Arizona's immigration law chained themselves to a federal detention center in Orange County today.
- KROQ is helping out a victim of a hit and run that has changed her life since.
- One Echo Park dweller is using their home to celebrate the Lakers. Go, L.A!
- Want to buy a burned down Castle in Chatsworth? It's only $90,000.
- Mayor Villaraigosa only vetoed one item on his budget: oversight of his gang program.
- A suit filed in Los Angeles alleges that a production company is to blame for actor David Carradine's death in 2009.
- Don't forget! With its killer line-up of local star chefs, Taste of the Nation, an event for a good cause, is this Sunday.
- Get excited, vegans -- looks like Native Foods is expanding to the Beverly Center and downtown.
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