Thu Nov 5, 2009 4:41 AM EST
Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 won all five awards it was nominated for Thursday at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas, including two of the top awards of the night and honors in both urban and alternative categories.
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Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:20 PM EDT
Betty Gallagher, the wife of a former Associated Press general manager and president who helped him run the Berlin bureau after World War II, died Thursday. She was 93.
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:59 PM EDT
Vic Mizzy, a songwriter who composed the catchy themes for the 1960s sit-coms "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres," has died. He was 93.
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Mon Oct 5, 2009 6:05 AM EDT
On his second day as musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the man of the moment in classical music rehearsed with a group of middle schoolers who were having tempo problems.
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Thu Oct 1, 2009 2:12 AM EDT
Gustavo Dudamel held his first rehearsal as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new maestro, wearing trendy black sneakers and a persistent smile that showed the sheer fun he's having directing one of the world's premiere orchestras.
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Mon Sep 7, 2009 7:41 PM EDT
The University of California San Diego pole vaulter who died after hitting his head during practice followed family tradition by becoming a pole vaulter and died doing what he loved, his sister said Monday.
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Mon Sep 7, 2009 4:14 PM EDT
Firefighters are racing against the weather to clear brush before heat descends on Southern California, stoking the giant 15-day-old wildfire burning in the Angeles National Forest.
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Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:39 AM EDT
A massive fire in the Angeles National Forest nearly doubled in size overnight, threatening 12,000 homes Monday in a 20-mile-long swath of flame and smoke and surging toward a mountaintop broadcasting complex.
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Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:39 AM EDT
Firefighters tried to hold back a massive wildfire from consuming thousands of homes and a communications center in Los Angeles County on Monday as they mourned two firefighters killed when their vehicle rolled down a mountain side.
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Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:36 PM EDT
Firefighters tried Monday to hold back a massive wildfire from consuming thousands of Los Angeles-area homes and a crucial communications center as they mourned two firefighters killed when their vehicle rolled down a mountain.
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Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:23 AM EDT
Firefighters in Southern California braced for another day of hot, extremely dry weather as they battled two wildfires in the Angeles National Forest northeast of Los Angeles, while crews worked to contain another blaze in a rural area of Northern California that consumed a mobile home.
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Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:56 PM EDT
Hours before she died, former model Jasmine Fiore was chatting on her cell phone with an ex-boyfriend — a conversation that police say threw her reality contestant husband into a jealous rage.
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Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:16 PM EDT
A jury returned a $370 million verdict against Guess Inc. co-founder Georges Marciano Friday in a civil defamation lawsuit that was filed by five former employees.
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Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:03 PM EDT
Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman wants a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by a child labor activist.
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Fri May 15, 2009 1:02 AM EDT
California health officials have fined a hospital where employees illegally accessed medical records for octuplet mother Nadya Suleman.
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Sat May 9, 2009 7:25 PM EDT
As a wildfire raged for days in the mountains above town, thousands forced from their homes took shelter in evacuation centers, hotels, homes of friends and family — and even on boats in the city's harbor.
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:02 AM EDT
A growing army of needy people and volunteers are descending on farms, fields and backyards across the nation in search of leftover produce that might otherwise go to waste.
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Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:46 PM EDT
A former hospital executive pleaded guilty Wednesday to paying recruiters who brought in homeless people for unnecessary medical treatment in a scheme to collect millions of dollars from government health programs.
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:20 PM EDT
Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend was the principal enabler in a conspiracy with two doctors to provide the "known addict" thousands of prescription pills in the months before she died of an overdose, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:40 PM EDT
Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend and two doctors conspired to provide the Playboy Playmate with thousands of prescription pills before her 2007 fatal overdose, California's attorney general said Friday.
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:49 AM EDT
Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend and a doctor surrendered to face charges that they conspired to provide the Playboy Playmate with thousands of prescription pills before her 2007 fatal overdose. A second doctor also is accused.
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:29 AM EDT
Anna Nicole Smith's death may have been from an accidental overdose, but prosecutors say her ex-boyfriend and two doctors were responsible for feeding the Playboy Playmate's addiction.
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:59 AM EDT
LOS ANGELES — Anna Nicole Smith's death may have been from an accidental overdose, but prosecutors say her ex-boyfriend and two doctors were responsible for feeding the Playboy Playmate's addiction.
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Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:57 AM EST
The Screen Actors Guild board of directors on Saturday rejected the "last, best and final offer" by Hollywood producers for a new contract.
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Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:21 AM EST
Nearly a half century ago, amid suspicion and fears of McCarthyism, folk singer Pete Seeger faced an ultimatum from the San Diego school district: Sign an oath against communism or cancel a concert he planned at a high school auditorium.
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