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Extra, Extra: A Typographical Terrorist, A Hacked Cell Phone and a Dog's Ass
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- 31 LAUSD schools have applied to become charter schools.
- Someone calling him or herself a "typographical terrorist" did $3,000 worth of damage too a Redondo Union High School in spray paint.
- The city of Monterey Park is giving away free toilets.
- A young man apparently committed suicide by standing in front of an oncoming train in Dana Point.
- The woman who's accused of throwing her baby from a parking structure to his death has been ruled mentally fit to stand trial.
- The L.A. Public Health Department paid a visit to Toast restaurant on 3rd Street after Aubrey O'Day let her dogs sit on top of a table there.
- "Glee"'s Heather Morris is the latest celebrity to have her cell phone hacked.
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