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Extra, Extra: Cheney's New Heart, Simpsons' Boffo Friday Numbers and Scandals Galore
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- Civic Center developments still struggling amidst Downtown construction boom.
- Nothing like a good Saturday scandal story: a manager for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles was found to have illegally steered almost $800,000 in contracts to family members and corporate allies.
- One begets another: an inmate serving a life sentence for the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989 was stabbed 11 times by another inmate.
- Taking animal cruelty to a whole new level, Newport Beach fisherman Hai Nguyen was arrested for stabbing a sea lion with a steak knife after it took his bait.
- Whoopty-doo: Cheney's heart device (internal heart defibrillator, if you must know) was successfully replaced this morning.
- A woman crashed into an Orange Line Metroliner bus this morning, sending five people to the hospital.
- Big Friday box-office numbers for The Simpsons: $30 million.
- Spread of gangs in the military is a threat to national security.
- Several mosquitoes caught in Riverside tested positive for West Nile Virus.
- Federal officials have cleared the Martin Luther King Junior-Harbor Hospital of patient jeopardy, opening the way for a possible return of federal funding.
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