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They're broke, getting increasingly obsolete, and now they're upping their prices: The U.S. Postal Service will raise postage prices in the new year. As of January, 22, 2012, the cost of a first-class stamp will go up a penny to 45 cents. Other postage rates will jump up, too.

Following an argument with his wife, 36-year-old Jose Benitez of Fontana stormed into the bathroom where she was showering, and stabbed her multiple times, according to L.A. Now. The couple's two children, a 19-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old son, tried to stop their father.

No one's reported getting sick yet, but a finished package of spinach tested as likely tainted with salmonella in Washington, and bagged greens-maker Taylor Farms has issued a voluntary, precautionary recall of 3,265 cases of several of their salad blends.

Things are going from bad to worse for Lindsay Lohan, who has been turned away from her first community service shift at the Los Angeles County Morgue. LiLo managed to be 40 minutes late for her 8 a.m. shift, and is therefore considered a no-show.

Plan on traveling by plane within the U.S. soon? Then you'll need to plan on paying more per ticket on at least four major airlines, who implemented a ticket price increase Tuesday. Delta Air Lines raised ticket prices by $4, $6, and $10 "across the bulk of their domestic route system," reports Farecompare.com.

From the people that brought you the pee-in-your-pants funny Damn You, Autocorrect site for all those iPhone texting hijinks comes the new site Why, Siri, Why?! which lets users submit screengrabs showing the goofy things the updated Apple iPhone 4S voice-activated "assistant" says. Not so fun, however, is word that employing Siri to make a call can override a vital security feature many people use on their iPhones.

A 14-year-old autistic boy is missing after he deplaned a delayed flight at Bob Hope Airport. The minor was taken to the airport by his parents, and had been successfully boarded as an unaccompanied minor on his Delta flight this morning.

Southwest Airlines Flight 3683 to Kansas City, Mo., out of LAX made an unplanned landing at Houston Tuesday, after the crew reported that a passenger became unruly and was allegedly trying to break into the cockpit. Upon landing, 29-year-old Ali Reza Shahsauri was taken into custody "by federal authorities on a charge of interference with a flight crew."

A fatal officer-involved shooting left several lanes of the 91 Freeway in Corona closed overnight, backing up traffic and necessitating an extensive investigation. The shooting took place just after 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, when California Highway Patrol officers arrived at the eastbound 91 Freeway between Main Street and the 15 Freeway in response to a call of a single-vehicle crash.

Adam Fleischman has not been shy about his wish to expand UMAMI Burger in a big way, but for his next L.A. foodventure, he's taking on the iconic deli with UMAMIcatessen. The 170-seat table-service restaurant located inside the historic Orpheum theatre will have a full bar, and five different kitchens executing food concepts from chefs from all around the country.

The Occupy LAUSD movement kicked off their occupation of the Los Angeles Unified School District's headquarters in Downtown last night following a march to the building from the Occupy L.A. site at City Hall. Though they were confronted by police officers outside the building, the group managed to set up a small occupation site and spent the night on the sidewalk in protest.

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