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Ex-stock-car driver Gerald Hollenbeck’s $1 scratcher ticket purchased in Oxnard yielded him a $1 million prize, and he came to the lottery’s Van Nuys District Office on Thursday, May 18, 2012 to collect. Hollenbeck bought the winning ticket in the $250 Million Cash Spectacular Scratchers game at Master’s Donuts, 1911 N. Oxnard Blvd. in Oxnard. [...]

Facebook finally announced its initial stock price today — $38 for those keeping score at home — which means, well it means a lot of folks in the greater Menlo Park metropolitan area just became rich — really rich. And for us it means, well it means, the 99 percent just got smaller. [View the [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. – The neighbors of a Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself initially weren’t sure who was shot when they heard gunshots and then found three of the woman’s kids outside, according to a 911 call released Wednesday. “I knew this was gonna happen you guys,” a crying female [...]

State parks rangers along with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department raided an illegal marijuana grow in the backcountry of Topanga State Park, officials said Monday. The grow site was discovered May 7, and authorities conducted the raid Friday, eradicating some 34,000 marijuana plants with a street value of more than $100 million, according to [...]

LOS ANGELES – The possibility of an all-Los Angeles NBA playoff grew today, when the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Memphis Grizzlies 82-72 on the road in Tennessee today. For the first time in NBA history, two Los Angeles teams will be among the four teams vying in the playoffs for a berth in the [...]

The first time Ray Castellani drove down to Skid Row to feed the hungry, he handed out 111 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and cups of coffee from the back of his pickup truck. He went back a second time with more sandwiches. And a third time, with even more food. He returned again and again, toward the [...]

The lessons read like those from UC Berkeley, Wellesley or another top-notch liberal arts college. The principles of Confucius, Sartre and Freud. The theme of social conscience in the classic “Les Miserables” or “The Painted Bird.” The effects of class, race and gender on the evolution of democracy. Those discussions aren’t taking place on a [...]

The Los Angeles City Council approved a new law Tuesday that requires some markets to install systems to prevent the theft of shopping carts from store property. The law was intended to reduce the proliferation of abandoned shopping carts on city streets and sidewalks. The plan, approved on a 12-0 vote and sent to Mayor [...]

BEVERLY HILLS – Stand on the Beverly Hills Hotel’s red carpet, leading into its chandeliered lobby, and you can’t help but visualize a century’s worth of celebrities, royalty, politicians, musicians and actors who have stayed there, from Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor to Madonna, Reese Witherspoon and Katy Perry. The luxury hotel on Sunset Boulevard [...]

BEVERLY HILLS – Stand on the Beverly Hills Hotel’s red carpet, leading into its chandeliered lobby, and you can’t help but visualize a century’s worth of celebrities, royalty, politicians, musicians and actors who have stayed there, from Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor to Madonna, Reese Witherspoon and Katy Perry. The luxury hotel on Sunset Boulevard [...]