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Extra, Extra: White House Denies Aliens, No Gory Pics on Cigarettes, and Brett Ratner Uses Homophobic Slur
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Three L.A. County teachers were named among the state's best.
- A second family has filed a lawsuit against Scott Dekraai, accused of shooting and killing eight people in a Seal Beach hair salon.
- Drugs and alcohol are suspected as the cause of death of an 18-year-old boy found unresponsive at a UCLA frat party.
- Attending to the most pressing concerns of the country, the White House has issued a statement saying that they have no evidence of extraterrestrial life.
- Tobacco companies don't have to put gruesome pictures of decaying lungs and teeth on packages of cigarettes.
- If you pull carefully out of your driveway but still manage to hit a person walking their dog, who is at fault?
- Notorious Hollywood asshole Brett Ratner issued an apology for using the word "fag" during a public screening of his new movie, "Tower Heist."
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