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Extra, Extra: A Hollywood Gigolo, A Ban on Pot Shops and Jehovah's Witnesses at Cedars-Sinai
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- Reports by students of odd behavior by Mark Berndt, the teacher accused of binding and gagging elementary school students, may have begun as many as 20 years ago.
- An out right ban on pot shops is under consideration -- will it pass?
- A Jehovah's Witness with leukemia is treated at Cedar's Sinai use a doctor who respects her wishes to not have a blood transfusion.
- Police are looking for a man who stole an off-duty police officer's gun and wallet out of a gym locker.
- Michelle Obama visited the Inglewood site where a new Northgate Market will soon be built.
- Moving trucks took Lindsay Lohan's stuff from her Venice apartment today.
- Post-World War II Hollywood gigolo Scotty Bowers, who recently wrote a memoir about his experience turning tricks in the mid-20th century, gave his first print interview.
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