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Extra, Extra: A Concealed Field of Marijuana

- The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is closing indefinitely.
- Sheryl Crow has been granted a restraining order against a man who threatened to shoot her.
- Jessica Simpson's father, Joe Simpson, has been charged with a DUI.
- Homicide detectives are planning to interview the husband of a woman who went missing after going snorkeling near Rancho Palos Verdes.
- Firefighters battling the Buck Fire in Riverside County discovered a concealed field full of marijuana plants.
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