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Yosemite's giant sequoias will be all right, expert says 27 Aug 2013 | 11:49 am
The Rim fire in and around the west side of Yosemite National Park jumped today to 160,980 charred acres, with new evacuations in areas outside the park. Firefighters were able to declare 20% containm...
The case of the missing underground water 27 Aug 2013 | 11:02 am
AP reporters Michael Blood and Elliot Spagat investigated what happened when state water was stored in an underground aquifer in Ventura County — the water vanished. "They had a great vision," the cou...
Time travel: Broadway in Los Angeles in 1902 27 Aug 2013 | 10:58 am
Posted to Twitter by historian Michael Beschloss, without explanation. He includes the hashtag #WPA, so maybe he came across the picture while doing some work on the Works Progress Administration, whi...
Emily Green on the beauty of a found baseball 27 Aug 2013 | 10:13 am
I've been meaning to post this for more than a month. Emily Green, whose recent writing you probably know more on water issues and SoCal gardens, contributed a really nice first-person piece in the LA...
The Onion skewers a familiar name over CNN's Miley Cyrus handling 27 Aug 2013 | 09:38 am
The Onion satirized CNN for leading its website with coverage of the Miley Cyrus twerking debacle by posting a fictional letter from Meredith Artley, the managing editor of the network's news website....
Historical Harley Davidsons of the LA County Fire Department (video) 27 Aug 2013 | 09:08 am
County Fire used to use motorcycles to get around. Video by retired captain Dave Boucher.
Obama coming back to schmooze with donors Sept. 9 27 Aug 2013 | 04:54 am
President Obama has planned a return to Los Angeles on September 9 for "an 'off the cuff' roundtable discussion with a small group of deep-pocketed Democratic donors," Tina Daunt reports at the Hollyw...
Dick Gordon leaving public radio's 'The Story' 27 Aug 2013 | 03:54 am
"The Story,” the nationally syndicated public radio news interview program produced at North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, will air for the last time on October 11. Long-time host Dick Gordon "plans to ...
Hugh Laurie's guide to the Los Angeles he loves 27 Aug 2013 | 03:19 am
In a piece for the travel section of the Telegraph, actor Hugh Laurie goes against the grain of anti-LA sentiment among his fellow Brits. Or what he sees as the grain, anyway. "Los Angeles, and especi...
Piolin files suit against six ex-colleagues over alleged extortion 27 Aug 2013 | 12:28 am
Eddie Sotelo, the Spanish-language radio host known as Piolin, filed a "civil extortion lawsuit" today in Santa Monica Superior court against against six former Univision employees and their Los Angel...
