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Extra, Extra: Meatball the Bear Brings Celebrity to a Local Animal Sanctuary

- Meatball the bear has brought celebrity clout to the Lions Tigers & Bears sanctuary.
- Authorities are looking for two suspects who targeted a young mother at a local Sam's Club in a robbery.
- A man who barricaded himself in Moorpark caused the neighborhood to be evacuated.
- UCSD School of Medicine researchers have been awarded a multi-million dollar grant to study adults aging with HIV.
- An L.A. County prosecutor doesn't want Bruce Davis, who has been described as Charles Manson's "right-hand man," to be paroled.
- A 102-year-old woman livin gin Pasadena describes her younger self as "a little Kobe."
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