LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton says officers have arrested 19 members of one of the city's most violent gangs....

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CHINO HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- State education officials have given a failing grade to a plan by two Southern California elementary schools to use extended summer sessions to make up for lost class time....

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Los Angeles city councilman is calling on AEG Live to pay some of the estimated $1.4 million tab for the Michael Jackson memorial service Tuesday at Staples Center....

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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Prosecutors in San Diego have decided not to file charges against a pedicab driver whose passenger died after she fell from his pedal-powered vehicle....

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A diet center doctor who prosecutors say ordered more than 1 million painkillers last year and sold the pills to his patients in exchange for cash has pleaded guilty to a federal drug-related charge....

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal officials in California say they've made more than 1,000 arrests as part of a national operation targeting fugitive violent criminals and sex offenders....

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RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Federal investigators say Steve Fossett apparently ran into a downdraft that was stronger than his small plane could handle before he crashed in the Sierra nearly two years ago....

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ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) -- A U.S. Border Patrol worker has been arrested in Escondido following a hatchet attack that left a couple seriously injured....

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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Authorities say a 36-year-old man has died of swine flu in San Diego County, its fifth resident to die of the disease....

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Firefighters worked on rugged slopes Thursday to finish off remnants of a brush fire that forced evacuations of the Getty Center art complex and a nearby college in the Santa Monica Mountains....

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