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  • Psys look-alike dupes stars at Cannes

    A look alike of the Korean star 'Psy' had a gala time with top Hollywood celebrities at Cannes. The fake PSY partied with stars such as Naomie Harris and Adrien Brody at a party thrown by luxury jeweller- Chopard, the Sun reported. The man also tried his hands at DJ decks at an event hosted by a Russian oil-magnate and where big names including Trance beauty Rosario Dawson were present. A ...

  • Volunteers Help Revive LAs Concrete River

    LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles River is a concrete drainage channel through much of its 80-kilometer length. It channels waste-water from storm drains and has become a receptacle for much of the city's trash. But, the river is slowly being restored to its natural state with the help of volunteers, who take part in an annual clean-up. Thousands of volunteers turned out on a recent weekend ...

  • Bill would require correct ID in debt-collections

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; Debt collectors would have to make sure they are going after the right person under a bill working its way through the ...

  • Company Bay Bridge bolts made to exact specs

    OAKLAND, Calif. -; An executive with an Ohio manufacturer has said steel bolts used on a troubled new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge were made exactly to ...

  • Funeral planned for slain Calif. girl shot in home

    NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. -; Funeral services are being planned for a 10-year-old Northern California girl who was killed when gunmen fired a barrage of bullets into her family's home while she was drawing and watching ...

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John Carter [Blu-Ray]

John Carter [Blu-Ray]

John Carter, an ambitious science-fantasy spectacle based on Edgar Rice Burroughss 1912 serialized novel A Princess of Mars, is an awesome folly, a misguided project of genuinely enormous proportions that feels like exactly what it is: an impersonal product of franchise-hung ... ...

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  • LA sanitation ends plans for dump near Joshua Tree

    LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles County's sanitation districts are no longer pursuing plans to build a 4,000-acre landfill near Joshua Tree National Park on former mine ...

  • NHP seizes 159 lbs. pot from I-80 moving truck

    WINNEMUCCA, Nev. -; The Nevada Highway Patrol has seized more than 150 pounds of marijuana from the driver of a moving truck stopped on Interstate 80 near ...

  • Arellano Felix drug cartel leader pleads guilty

    FILE - This image provided by Mexico's Federal Public Safety Department, SSP, shows wanted drug-kingpin Eduardo Arellano Felix, leader of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel, who is expected to plead guilty to federal charges Friday, May 24, 2013. Felix was extradited from Mexico to the United States last September on drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering charges. He ...

  • Smoke from California wildfire could drift to Las Vegas

    Friday, May 24, 2013 | 12:36 p.m. An air quality advisory has been issued for this weekend because of concerns about smoke from a Southern California wildfire making its way into the Las Vegas Valley. The fire started after what was supposed to be a controlled burn got out of control and has impacted about 800 acres in San Diego County. The Clark County Department of Air Quality issued the ...

  • Unexpected Health Insurance Rate Shock-California Obamacare Insurance Exchange Announces Premium Rates

    English: Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Every now and again, a political pundit is required to stand up and admit to the world that he or she got it wrong. For me, this would be one of those moments. For quite some time, I have been predicting that Obamacare would likely mean higher insurance rates in the ...

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