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November 27, 2020 at 8:43 am

Jerry Seinfeld digs into 45 years of his jokes for new book

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forget the high-performance sports cars, the luxury Rolls-Royces and all those other classic automobiles in which Jerry Seinfeld ushers his fellow...

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November 12, 2020 at 12:59 pm

White separatist who spewed racial hatred dead at 82

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Metzger, the notorious former Ku Klux Klan leader who rose to prominence in the 1980s while promoting white separatism and...

October 23, 2020 at 5:03 pm

Arlo Guthrie, citing health, says he’s retired from touring

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant. But it appears we've seen Arlo Guthrie tell us that in person...

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October 19, 2020 at 1:38 pm

Priest and abstract-expressionist painter Bill Moore dies VIEW

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Father Bill Moore, a Catholic priest and prominent abstract expressionist who spent decades spreading spiritualism through his paintings, has died at...

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October 13, 2020 at 4:21 pm

LA’s newest firefighter, a robot, can go where humans can’t VIEW

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Fire Department introduced its newest firefighter Tuesday, a chunky, low-slung little gadget on wheels that despite its humble...

October 1, 2020 at 2:45 pm

‘Lady Ninja’ pummels assailant who attacked elderly friend

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Her martial arts skills may not be quite what they once were, but still, you don't mess with Lady Ninja. Authorities...

Trader Joe’s products labeled Trader Jose’s and Trader Ming’s, which have been criticized as racist, will get a name change, the company said. The company has come under fire in part from a petition, posted for about two weeks, on the Change.org website. It had collected more than 2,000 signatures by Sunday, July 19, 2020. (Dreamstime/TNS) 1719967 1719967

July 31, 2020 at 12:32 pm

Trader Joe’s says no to changing ethnic-sounding label names VIEW

Trader Joe's, which said earlier this month it was moving to change the names of some of its products after an online petition denounced them...

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July 29, 2020 at 5:04 pm

Divers pull Paralympic hopeful’s prosthetic from ocean floor VIEW

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When DeWalt Mix lost his prosthetic leg while paddle-boarding off the coast of Long Beach, the local Fire Department dove right...

June 30, 2020 at 4:27 pm

Famed architect Paul Williams’ archive goes to Getty, USC

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Before there was Frank Gehry there was Paul Revere Williams, who shaped the face of Los Angeles throughout much of the...

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June 10, 2020 at 6:26 pm

UCLA professor: No racism in refusing to cancel final

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A University of California, Los Angeles, professor suspended over an email exchange with a student who wanted a final exam canceled...