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At one of the last public hearings involving the redrawing of Los Angeles city district lines-held at Walter Reed Middle School in Studio City Thursday night-more than 250 people showed up and 148 of them signed up to speak.

I'm going on Eight Forty-Eight today to read some of your comments on how you would have covered sticker-gate. I got some great feedback from yesterday's post and now I have full control of the airwaves to make you famous.

A Los Angeles-area school at the center of a shocking child abuse scandal reopens Thursday with an entirely new staff, including the principal, teachers, administrators and janitors.

The suspected assailant, Dennis Bagwell, an optician who lives in Piedmont, was held without bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin while prosecutors decide what charges to file against him.

By William M. Welch, USA TODAY Authorities are investigating allegations that a teacher's aide sent love letters to an 11-year-old boy attending the Los Angeles-area school where two teachers have been charged with molesting students, according to a report.

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy said Monday night that more than 120 staff members at Miramonte Elementary School - everyone from the principal and teachers to the cafeteria workers - were being replaced because a full investigation of the allegations will be disruptive and staffers will require support to get through ... (more)

After Tom Steinhagen spent last weekend "homleless" - living in a car and fasting for 80 hours to raise awareness of homeless veterans, while accepting donations of blue jeans and cash - one might think that he would be taking it easy this weekend.

UC running back Akise Teague, who faces one count of burglary, has been dismissed from the program by coach Butch Jones.

Now free of having to notify the UUP press office about media interviews and statements - something that Tom Elliott has adhered to as Party Leader - David McNarry is everywhere.

Peninsula College President Tom Keegan will bid the school farewell at the end of this week.

UCA President Tom Courtway spoke to the Conway Rotary Club on Thursday, leading off with "10 things you may not know about UCA." 10.

If you had to live in a car for three days and go without eating for that long, could you do it? Tom Steinhagen, a disabled Vietnam War veteran of Mesa who did three tours in Vietnam, began trying it for the first time at 9 a.m. on Thursday.

SAINT PIO Prayer meeting will take place on Thursday 26th January at 7pm. incorporating the Rosary, Mass and Benediction, mitten of Padre Pio will be at the Prayer Meeting.

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Rebel Records has February 28th set as the release date for their latest album from Chris Jones & the Night Drivers .

The heart of Gov. Scott McCallum's plan to battle a $1.1 billion shortfall in state revenue is to the elimination of funds shared with local municipalities.

Liam Viviano was about to take his 2,000th basketball shot in an eight-day fund-raising effort.

In fact, economic growth in 2012 will remain stagnant, said Tom Zwirlein, a professor of economics at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and one of the directors of the Southern Colorado Economic Forum.

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To accommodate increasing demand, the Fort Wayne parks department will expand its Winterval festival this year to include multiple venues and events.