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- The LADWP faced an early morning water main break today that ruptured in Hollywood on St. Andrews place.
- An unidentified man jumped to his death this afternoon from a parking structure located in downtown Alhambra.
- Police are looking for information about a possibly gang-related shooting that took place last night in Venice outside an after-prom party.
- This weekend 25 murals were painted in Long Beach as part of their We Love LB logo mural project.
- The body found burned in a vehicle on Memorial Day weekend has been identified as a 59-year-old ex-Marine who authored a book about the failing of the US government.
- And now for something a little different: A horse named Peanut got stuck in a remote part of Irvine Regional Park and had to be rescued.
- John Wooden's 13-year-old great-granddaughter Ashlyn paid led her Newport Beach elementary school in a tribute ceremony on Friday for the late coaching icon.
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