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COVID Vaccine Rollout, Man Exonerated After 27 Years, & Nury Martinez Scandal — The Sunday Edition
Today's headlines:
- New COVID vaccines are rolling out a little slower than planned.
- Attorneys for a local man freed 27 years after a wrongful conviction says false confessions can be common.
- The first episode of the LAist podcast, Imperfect Paradise: Nury and The Secret Tapes.
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