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SullivanCurtisMonroe Names Petsche as VP in Southern California
SullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services LLC named Thomas Petsche as a vice president at its Los Angeles location. Prior to joining SCM's group benefits division, Petsche was with Gallagher Benefits Services. He has more than 15 years of benefits brokerage consulting experience. SMC isa full-service insurance agency focused on middle-market companies, offering commercial property/casualty, ...
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UPDATE 1-Justin Bieber hits photographer in Los Angeles car scrape
Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:16pm EDT (New throughout with police statement) LOS ANGELES, June 18 (Reuters) - Teen pop star Justin Bieber struck a photographer with his Ferrari sports car while driving away from a comedy club in Los Angeles on Monday night, but the accident was not considered a hit-and-run, police said. Video taken outside the Laugh Factory comedy club showed Bieber behind the wheel of ...
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Stuntwoman sues News Corp. over alleged phone hack
LOS ANGELES -; A woman who worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie has sued Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in Los Angeles, claiming she's a victim of a phone hacking scheme to obtain information about the ...
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California Home Price Increases Most in 33 Years
The median price of a previously owned house in California soared 31.9 percent in May, the largest year-over-year increase in more than three decades as sales of more expensive properties increased and inventory remained tight, a trade group said Monday. Last month, the state's median home price increased to $417,350 from $316,460 in May 2012, according to Los Angeles-based California ...
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More bad luck for Bieber Pop star hits pedestrian in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Los Angeles police say Justin Bieber struck a pedestrian with his car in Hollywood, but there was no crime and the injuries aren't life-threatening. Lt. Craig Valenzuela says Bieber's car collided with someone -- possibly a photographer -- at 11:45 p.m. local time Monday in the 8800 block of Sunset Boulevard. Valenzuela says nobody was cited or arrested and ...
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California Prisoners at Avenal and Pleasant Valley prisons demand move as valley fever death toll rises
Thousands of inmates at two California prisons may be transferred to other facilities, to avoid the threat of a condition known as valley ...
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Sex Trafficking Victim to Share Her Story
Hazel C. was the victim in a San Diego case which was delayed while the prosecution struggled to prove the trafficker knew his victim was a ...
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Amber Alert Issued for Father with Infant Son
The father, an attempted homicide suspect, is believed to be heading towards La Jolla or Oceanside with his infant son in the car officials said ...
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Suit filed over So. Cal Border Patrol chase death
SAN DIEGO -; The parents of a man who died when his car burst into flames during a Border Patrol chase in San Diego County is suing the government for wrongful ...
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Man indicted for allegedly tossing wife overboard
SANTA ANA, Calif. -; An Orange County grand jury has indicted a man for allegedly strangling his ex-wife and tossing her off a cruise ship in ...
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Ex-hitman describes more killings in Bulger trial
An ex-gangster who admitted killing 20 people was unemotional Monday when describing his line of work at the trial of his former partner, James "Whitey" Bulger, but called himself heartbroken when he learned that Bulger had become an FBI ...
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Losing U.S. Open Saves Phil Mickelson $400000 In California Taxes
Phil Mickelson's sponsor KPMG should be able to help the golfer with his high taxes. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Back in ...
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Latest California fire gains strength threatens hundreds of homes
Fire officials in California are asking the public to work with them as they face one of the most significant fire seasons they've seen in many ...
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Forget Fracking California Should Be Worried About Acid Jobs
off the Santa Barbara coast . So it shouldn't be surprising that the state is moving at a glacial pace to decide the rules for hydraulic fracturing (AKA fracking) in the Monterey oil formation--the largest oil shale reserve in the U.S., with approximately 15 billion barrels of oil just waiting to be tapped. The battle over fracking in the state--which ...
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Justin Bieber behind wheel as car hits man in Hollywood
Los Angeles police say Justin Bieber struck a pedestrian with his car in Hollywood Calif., on Monday night, but there was no crime and the injuries aren't life-threatening. Lt. Craig Valenzuela says Bieber's car collided with someone -- possibly a photographer -- at 11:45 p.m. local time Monday in the 8800 block of Sunset ...
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California Insurance Commissioner Bar Anthem From Health Exchange
California’s insurance commissioner wants to exclude Anthem Blue Cross from the state’s new health exchange for small businesses, saying it’s made excessive rate hikes. Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said three increases this year - including one of nearly 18 percent - were unreasonable. However, under state law he couldn’t block them. The state-run exchange stems ...
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6-year-old killed in Calif. dog attack
Authorities say the attack occurred around 11 a.m. Monday at the boy's Union City home. The dog has been described as a pit bull or pit bull ...
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LA City Council considers banning plastic bags
City News Service says the City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to ban stores from handing out single-use plastic bags. They'd also be required to charge 10 cents for paper bags. The law would take effect next ...
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Battery recycler closed over pollution can reopen
LOS ANGELES -; A Southern California battery recycler that was ordered to shut down because of concerns that toxic pollution was placing thousands of local residents at risk has been allowed to ...
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Man charged with tossing wife off cruise ship
SANTA ANA, Calif. -; A California grand jury has indicted a Florida man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in ...
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Scores of additional homes evacuated in Calif fire
MARIPOSA, Calif. -; Scores of additional homes have been evacuated, as firefighters continue to battle a wildfire near the main route into Yosemite National Park in the Sierra ...
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Cathie Anderson Pop artist Tennessee Loveless features Sacramento icons in painting
Troy Carlson is well outnumbered by Mickey Mouse as he looks over the artwork by Tennessee Loveless. Carlson's Stage Nine Entertainment Store in Old Sacramento will be the site of the TENxTENxTEN show of Loveless' work Saturday and ...
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Stanton County native part of Hollywood movie crew
June 17--Just six years removed from high school, Stanton County native Trent Kendrick has a summer blockbuster movie under his belt. Kendrick, 24, worked as news coordinator on the movie, "White House Down", an action-thriller opening June 28 about an assault on the White House by a paramilitary group starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx and directed by Roland Emmerich, who also ...
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California Clothing Store Will Pay $7.5 Million In Racial Discrimination Settlement
California-based clothing retailer Wet Seal will pay $7.5 million and make a series of changes aimed at reducing racial discrimination after a federal court approved a settlement last ...
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Justin Bieber in traffic accident in Los Angeles
(Reuters) - Teen pop star Justin Bieber was involved in a late-night traffic accident, which Los Angeles media said injured a photographer who had been among a crowd trying to take pictures of the ...
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Sacramento vulnerable to massive disaster
If a major earthquake were to occur tomorrow, Sacramento could potentially be devastated by massive flooding on-par with that seen in New Orleans during Katrina. The state’s major fresh water systems would be destroyed and 25 million would be without fresh water, while millions would lose their homes, but for all this, funding to upgrade the city’s levees is hard to come by.
When Hurricane Katrina barreled into US states along the Gulf Coast in 2005 it caused chaos and devastation in a part of the world considered among the most developed and stable. Read more
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