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South Pasadena teen's death after a party stuns his community
Los Angeles Times – Tue Dec 15, 1:29 am ET

Aydin Salek, 17, was smart and affable, and he had big dreams. Frantic friends could not save him. South Pasadena High School was abuzz Friday afternoon with rumors of a party. Full Story »
Authorities investigating multiple homicides in San Clemente
Los Angeles Times – Tue Dec 15, 12:30 am ET

Orange County Sheriff's deputies are investigating an incident involving "multiple homicides" in a gated San Clemente neighborhood, authorities said tonight. Full Story »
Los Angeles might require microchips in recovered pets
Los Angeles Times – Tue Dec 15, 12:14 am ET

The city is considering requiring that dogs and cats retrieved by owners at animal shelters receive the chips, for a $15 fee. The Los Angeles City Council is considering requiring pet owners to implant microchip ID's in their recovered dogs and cats. Full Story »
Schuss! At 94, Mammoth Mountain resort founder is shooting the slopes (with a camera)
Los Angeles Times – Tue Dec 15, 12:00 am ET

Dave McCoy, the elder statesman of the California ski industry, is exploring the world through zoom lenses with the same enthusiasm he used to transform the remote mountain into a renowned resort. In October 2005, Dave McCoy's friends bought him a digital camera, hoping it would help the founder of the storied Mammoth Mountain ski resort stay active after selling the enterprise to a private ... Full Story »
Measure to legalize pot may be on California's November ballot
Los Angeles Times – Mon Dec 14, 11:59 pm ET

Supporters say they have enough signatures -- about 57% more than the required 433,971 -- on a petition to qualify for the ballot. Polls have shown support for legalization among state voters. California voters could decide whether to legalize marijuana in November after supporters announced Monday that they have more than enough signatures to ensure that it qualifies for the ballot. Full Story »

Los Angeles Daily News

Campbell Soup to cut SpaghettiOs sodium level
Los Angeles Daily News – Mon Dec 14, 11:01 pm ET

CAMDEN, N.J.—Campbell Soup Co. said Monday that it will cut the amount of sodium in its SpaghettiOs canned pastas by up to 35 percent, as food makers increasingly try to make healthier products for children. Full Story »
Plan would put ID chips in all reclaimed dogs, cats
Los Angeles Daily News – Mon Dec 14, 10:47 pm ET

Hoping to reduce the number of animals the city has to euthanize, a City Council panel approved a plan on Monday that would require microchips to be implanted in all dogs or cats recovered by owners from city shelters. Full Story »
City audit: LAPD under Bratton mismanaged millions
Los Angeles Daily News – Mon Dec 14, 10:47 pm ET

The LAPD under former chief William Bratton mismanaged and mishandled millions of dollars of taxpayer money - violating city policies in buying supplies and hiring vendors, according to an internal department audit. Full Story »
City moves toward creating gang intervention training program
Los Angeles Daily News – Mon Dec 14, 10:46 pm ET

Taking the first step to professionalize gang intervention workers, a city panel recommended Monday paying a group $200,000 to create a training academy. Full Story »
Audit: LAPD mishandled millions in purchases
Los Angeles Daily News – Mon Dec 14, 3:46 pm ET

A Los Angeles police audit concludes the department bungled millions of dollars in purchases through policy violations and poor record-keeping. Full Story »

CBS 2 Los Angeles

Toddler Escapes Serious Injury By Runaway Bull
CBS 2 Los Angeles – Tue Dec 15, 1:44 am ET

Authorities say a toddler narrowly escaped injury when an escaped bull charged him in a rural area of Riverside County. Full Story »
Cops Continue Standoff With Armed Man In NoHo
CBS 2 Los Angeles – Tue Dec 15, 1:34 am ET

Officials say a man, reportedly armed, is holed up inside an apartment complex in North Hollywood. Full Story »
'Multiple' Murders Reported In San Clemente House
CBS 2 Los Angeles – Tue Dec 15, 1:32 am ET

Investigators say that "multiple" people have been found dead inside an upscale home in the gated community of Careyes in San Clemente. Full Story »
Driver, 19, Killed After She Hits Center Divider
CBS 2 Los Angeles – Tue Dec 15, 1:26 am ET

A 19-year-old woman was killed in Irvine Monday when the car she was driving hit the center divider, according to authorities. Full Story »
1 Dead In Car Crash Into Commercial Building
CBS 2 Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 10:19 pm ET

Officials say the driver of a car that slammed into a building in Exposition Park Monday evening has died. Full Story »

NBC Los Angeles

Several People Found Dead in Gated San Clemente Home
NBC Los Angeles – Tue Dec 15, 1:03 am ET

A homicidal mystery was unraveling Monday night in San Clemente Full Story »
Initiative Hopes to Legalize Marijuana for 21 and Over
NBC Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 8:03 pm ET

Organizers of a new initiative say they've collected enough signatures to make it happen. Full Story »
Riverside Tap Water Rated 2nd Worst in Nation
NBC Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 6:51 pm ET

Riverside residents may want to consider a good filter for their tap water following a recent water quality report. City officials say not so fast. Full Story »
Crime Stoppers in Los Angeles
NBC Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 6:06 pm ET

Crime Stoppers are in Los Angeles for the first time and teams up with NBC4 to launch the successful crime reduction program. Full Story »
Why did Aydin Salek die?
NBC Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 5:51 pm ET

A popular South Pasadena High student dies after attending a weekend party where alcohol was served, just days before his 18th birthday. Full Story »

KABC-TV Los Angeles

Missing woman case turns into homicide case
KABC-TV Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 6:41 pm ET

Perplexed over the disappearance of a Los Angeles woman, police have opened a homicide investigation. Full Story »
Girl paints picture of hope for homeless kids
KABC-TV Los Angeles – Thu Dec 10, 7:55 pm ET

Cool Kid Alex Morency uses a paint brush to deliver a message of inspiration and hope for homeless children. Full Story »
Investigators say prominent attorney was slain
KABC-TV Los Angeles – Thu Dec 10, 5:10 pm ET

Investigators say a prominent attorney who was found shot in the head outside his home was the victim of a homicide. Full Story »
Bus driver dies while driving passengers
KABC-TV Los Angeles – Wed Dec 9, 10:26 am ET

A driver suffered a fatal heart attack while driving passengers, causing a major accident in Harbor Gateway Wednesday. Full Story »

FOX 11 News Los Angeles

Velocity Fire Force Tanker Demo
FOX 11 News Los Angeles – Tue Dec 15, 2:35 am ET

A Hollywood stunt man says he's invented a new way to help fight brush fires... a specially-designed tanker truck that blasts water and retardant ahead of oncoming flames. We invited firefighting professionals along for a demonstration. Watch the video report inside the story. Full Story »
Busiest Mail Day of the Year
FOX 11 News Los Angeles – Tue Dec 15, 2:35 am ET

Across the nation, more than 800-million cards, letters, and packages were dropped off at the U.S. Post Office on Monday. As Chris Blatchford reports that's why it was the busiest mailing day of the year. Full Story »
Justin Bieber Performs to Crazed Fans
FOX 11 News Los Angeles – Tue Dec 15, 2:35 am ET

Canadian singer Justin Bieber fans were so frenzied that a concert in New York was cancelled and it almost happened again Monday in Commerce. Jane Yamamoto was at the Citadel and has more on what happened in this video report. Full Story »
Pipe Bomb on Car Exploded near USC
FOX 11 News Los Angeles – Tue Dec 15, 2:34 am ET

An area near USC was evacuated Monday afternoon when a suspicious package was found. The package turned out to be a pipe bomb that was attached to a woman's car at 36th and Normandie. Gigi Graciette has the video report. Full Story »
Several Bodies Found in Upscale OC Home
FOX 11 News Los Angeles – Tue Dec 15, 12:49 am ET

Orange County sheriff's officials say several family members were found dead in a home in an upscale neighborhood of San Clemente on Monday. Just what happened is under investigation. Watch Al Naipo's video report inside the story. Full Story »

KTLA-TV Los Angeles

Man Guilty of Torture for Holding Grandma in Trunk
KTLA-TV Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 11:03 pm ET

EL CAJON -- A man was convicted of torture and attempted murder for beating and kidnapping a 76 year old woman, then holding her in the car of his trunk for 26 hours. Full Story »
Four Family Members Found Dead in Home
KTLA-TV Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 9:48 pm ET

SAN CLEMENTE -- At least four family members were found shot to death Monday after a domestic dispute inside a rented home in an upscale gated community in San Clemente. Full Story »
Cops: 'Designated Driver' Caused Fiery, Fatal DUI Accident
KTLA-TV Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 8:03 pm ET

SAN DIEGO -- A man described as a designated driver was in custody Monday booked for alleged DUI and vehicular manslaughter following a fiery crash that killed a man. Full Story »
Toddler Hurt By Runaway Bull
KTLA-TV Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 7:19 pm ET

MEAD VALLEY, Riverside County -- A toddler playing in a vacant lot was struck in the head by a runaway bull after the animal escaped from its pen. Full Story »
Courtney Love Loses Legal Custody of Daughter
KTLA-TV Los Angeles – Mon Dec 14, 6:36 pm ET

LOS ANGELES - The only daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love has been placed in a temporary guardianship, court records show. Full Story »

LA Weekly

Brentwood's Toxic Grave
LA Weekly – Wed Dec 9, 8:42 pm ET

Several days ago, men wearing radiation dosimeters stood on the Veteran Administration’s West Los Angeles property, atop an old toxic dump that partially underlies Barrington Recreation Center’s baseball fields and a city dog park, and began the federal government&rsq... Full Story »
Invasion of the Granny Flat
LA Weekly – Wed Dec 9, 8:41 pm ET

The Los Angeles Planning Department is in what planner Gabriela Juarez calls an “information-gathering phase” for a proposed city law that would allow auxiliary dwelling units, or “granny flats,” in long-protected neighborhoods and wipe out key rules again... Full Story »
THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC
LA Weekly – Wed Dec 9, 8:41 pm ET

Just what the world needs — bigger and better flacking. But what is being described to me as the largest U.S. entertainment and lifestyle public relations and marketing company will be created on January 1. That’s because, on December 7, the powerful PR brand PMK/HBH ... Full Story »
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CONTROVERSY CONTINUES
LA Weekly – Wed Dec 9, 8:41 pm ET

GNARLY Duuuuuude , Take 2: The controversy over medical marijuana dispensaries continues with our second story on the subject (Patrick Range MacDonald’s “Trutanich Probes Pot Backer Don Duncan,” Dec. 4) in two weeks, and let’s just say the comme... Full Story »

The Palisadian-Post

Torfeh's Classical March to the Stage
The Palisadian-Post – Thu Dec 10, 11:46 am ET

2009-12-10 While actor Bryan Torfeh admits that the narrator's challenge will be balancing the feel of the music with what's happening in the story, and knowing when its his turn, his job will be easier because he reads music. Full Story »
Shakespearean Actor Bryan Torfeh to Perform with Chamber Music Palisades
The Palisadian-Post – Thu Dec 10, 11:46 am ET

2009-12-10 When Bryan Torfeh takes the stage with members of Chamber Music Palisades (CMP) on December 15, no visible instrument will be in sight, but he will play three parts in conveying Stravinsky's 'L'Histoire du Soldat' ('The Soldier's Tale') for the CMP audience. Full Story »
'Diviners' Offers a Thoughtful Evening
The Palisadian-Post – Thu Dec 10, 11:46 am ET

2009-12-10 In high school productions, quite often after the play is over, parents rise and give a kind of obligatory standing ovation. Full Story »
Susan Angelo Flourishes on Stage
The Palisadian-Post – Thu Dec 10, 11:46 am ET

2009-12-10 Susan Angelo learned early on that to 'be the best actress I could possibly be' would be achieved for her through classical theater. Full Story »
Producer Joe Papp Secured Theater for All
The Palisadian-Post – Thu Dec 10, 11:46 am ET

2009-12-10 For Joe Papp, the force behind bringing Shake-speare to the masses, all the world would have been his stage, had he had enough speed and energy to set up a platform and stretch a curtain around the globe. Full Story »

Los Angeles Downtown News

Downtown’s Dynamic Decade: Projects 10-9
Los Angeles Downtown News – Mon Dec 14, 7:27 pm ET

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Virtually every Downtown district saw a dramatic transformation in the decade that comes to an end in a few weeks. New office structures, retail, restaurants and, of course, housing, changed the fabric of the community. Full Story »
Downtown’s Dynamic Decade, Part 1
Los Angeles Downtown News – Mon Dec 14, 12:37 pm ET

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Downtown Los Angeles has never had a decade like the one that comes to an end on Dec. 31, 2009. Not even close. Full Story »
Tricky Times for a Top Chef
Los Angeles Downtown News – Mon Dec 14, 12:37 pm ET

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - When newly famous reality TV chef Ilan Hall opened a restaurant in Downtown, he joined a list of other well known, albeit more established, celebrity chefs who also have spots in the neighborhood. Full Story »
What the Piano Player Saw
Los Angeles Downtown News – Mon Dec 14, 12:37 pm ET

As told to Richard Guzmán DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - I started playing when I was 7 years old. I was playing the piano at my neighbor’s house and when my parents noticed that I was able to pick up songs by just hearing them, they bought me a piano. Full Story »
Snapshots in Green
Los Angeles Downtown News – Mon Dec 14, 12:37 pm ET

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - The color green has long been a prominent symbol in business, usually because of its association with cash. These days, “green” means something entirely different — concern for the environment. Full Story »