Source: L.A. Now
African American clergy, elected officials and community activists will lead a three-hour town hall meeting this morning on the black community and Proposition 8, the measure that restored a ban on same-sex marriage.
The session, from 8 to 11 a.m., will take place at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, 400 W. Washington Blvd.
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"Home Preservation Day" in Van Nuys today has nothing to do with new plumbing and a paint job. Instead, financially troubled homeowners are gathering for a mass counseling session to find out how to save their houses.
As many as 4,000 homeowners behind in their mortgage payments have been invited by IndyMac Federal [...]
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Eli Broad says — without providing details — that he is prepared to ante up $30 million to help L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art out of its financial crisis. In an opinion piece to be published in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times, L.A.’s top arts philanthropist writes:
"I’d like to make a proposal to [...]
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Denver Police Chief Gerry Whitman has enlisted a social psychologist to conduct a top-to-bottom assessment of whether the department is doing everything it can to rid the force of racial and gender bias.
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Fast Eddie Vrdolyak has a nickname. Poor Billy Singer has none.
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If you have naked photos of your wife on your cellphone, be sure to keep it safe. That’s sound advice a man in Fayetteville, Arkansas failed to heed.
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Vanessa Burdiaga nabbed 1977 baby blue Oldsmobile Cutlass at a police auction. But she soon found her new ride had a past.
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The News’ Patrick Huguenin got a skating lesson from one of the pixies in the cast of Disney On Ice’s latest tour, titled “Worlds of Fantasy,” which plays its final shows Sunday at the Nassau Coliseum before a week at the Izod Center in New Jersey.
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Forecasters to watch for downpours that could cause mudslides.
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Denver is braced for a wet chill Thursday that stands in stark comparison to spring-like, record-setting warmth this week.
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Behind bars as his trial neared two years ago, alleged drug kingpin Brian Hicks became more insistent: Kalonniann Clark had to die, he told his lieutenant, Willie Clark, according to an indictment against the two men made public Wednesday.
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Sara Dunn and her neighbors were among the last to know about a housing complex for ex-convicts proposed just a couple of miles from their Wilson County homes.
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The smell of deep-fried egg rolls and noodles with steamed vegetables betrayed the location of the Asian Cultural Festival on Saturday.
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A legislative fight over cable television permits cost more than $8 million to special-interest groups, the costliest lobbying in Tennessee over the past year, according to state Ethics Commission records.
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A group of Metro Council members hopes to help some residents save money on prescription drugs.
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Bill Frist’s entry and economy could shape 2010 race.
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With subject lost amid No Child’s emphasis on reading and math, Metro schools earn D’s and F’s.
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Doctors here and across the nation are noticing a surprising new trend: an increase in kidney stones among children — some of them as young as 7 years old.
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Every time she looks in the mirror, Brigitte Kitenge remembers the man who beat her in Rwanda.
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