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A young woman who used to ring up cheesecakes at the Cheesecake Factory in Woodland Hills settled a suit, alleging that her supervisors sexually harassed her and then fired her for complaining.
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It's official: Heidi Klum filed for divorce from Seal this afternoon. The divorce isn't a surprise exactly: the couple has been separated for three months.
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The board for Santa Monica College decided to put plans for a controversial summer tuition program on hold during an emergency meeting today. This comes less than a week after students were pepper-sprayed when they tried to show up to a board meeting to protest the new program.
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Jews in California have had trouble finding kosher Coca-Cola in time for Passover tonight thanks to a new state rule. Typically, Coca-Cola makes a special batch of coke for Passover with yellow caps around this time of the year that is made with sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup (for those Jews abstaining from corn as well as grains during Passover).
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Add the FBI to the list of agencies probing the fatal shooting of Kendrec McDade by Pasadena Police Department officers last month. McDade, 19, was fatally shot by police after they received a call from a man alleging—falsely, it turns out—that two men had stolen his backpack and laptop at gunpoint.
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Current TV fires back at Keith Olbermann, there's radiation in our kelp and students go nuts over Ron Paul at UCLA. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).
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AEG's proposed NFL stadium downtown would have 73,000 seats and it could bring nearly 20,000 cars downtown during weekend events. So just how does the company plan on avoiding Carmageddon? For now, here's a summary of what we know about how the company will deal with the traffic that will be generated by the masses coming downtown to cheer for, uh, Our Team.
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Na-Na Na-Na Na-Na Na-Na! Adam West, the original "Batman" got his star today on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We have a round-up of pictures from the ceremony and a couple of (campy) videos of West on "Batman" and more recently, "Family Guy."
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an art show commemorating the 20th anniversary of the prequel "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" opens at the Copro Gallery
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A home in Chatsworth was vandalized with toilet paper, feces and the word "Jew" scrawled in maple syrup alongside swastikas. The homeowner says he believes that the vandalism might have been a prank pulled by former friends of his daughter, but police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime because of its anti-Semitic message
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Last night students protesting at the board of trustees meeting at Santa Monica College were pepper-sprayed by campus police. The college's President Dr. Chui L. Tsang released a statement commending the campus police officers for exercising restraint and not arresting any of the students. He said the pepper-spraying was to "preserve public and personal safety."
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Some of us watching "Mad Men" might be inspired to take up cigarettes or day-drinking, but your local librarian has a list of titles to consider if you're the type who wants to pick up a book. The Los Angeles Public Library put together a list of books from the "Mad Men" themselves, novels that Don Draper read and even a few dispatches from the steno pool.