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From the LA Times:

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Activist Quits Hahn Panel on Beating
Najee Ali steps down after critics point out that he is awaiting trial on criminal charges. Mayor defends the appointment and the commission's existence.
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Hertzberg Launches Web Campaign Against Hahn
The former Assembly speaker hopes use of the Internet will attract grass-roots support in his race for L.A. mayor.
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Ruling Widens Sex Offender List
Possessing child porn may require registering for life, court says in reversing 1983 decision.
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Suspect Denies Carrying Metal Tool
A suspected car thief pummeled with a flashlight last week by a Los Angeles police officer denied Monday being in possession of metal wire cutters, challenging the officer's claim that he beat the suspect after another policeman mistook the tool for a gun.
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For Better Safety, MTA Takes a Virtual Reality Check
A $400,000 bus simulator is a new tool to help the L.A. County transit agency test and train its drivers and reduce accidents.
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King/Drew Praised for Response to Lapses
A top federal health official on Monday praised Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center employees for swiftly correcting serious patient-care lapses uncovered by inspectors over the last six months at the hospital.
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Ruling on MTA Bus Purchases Upheld
A federal judge has upheld a January court order that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority purchase 145 new buses to comply with a 1996 consent decree.
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Hurdles left for identity theft bill
Local officials say federal bill, if made into law, needs similar state legislation to match. Police have been worried about rising number of local cases.
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From the Daily News:

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Lawmakers address beating
Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn and Police Chief William Bratton fielded questions Monday from state and federal lawmakers concerned over the televised beating by an LAPD officer last week of a black motorist in Compton.
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Hotels workers ask for city help in labor impasse
Hotel workers, raising the prospect of a long work stoppage similar to that involving grocery stores, appealed to Los Angeles city officials on Monday to help head off a work action during the summer tourist season.
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City crackdown on pocket bikes
Police and city officials on Monday warned that pocket bikes -- the 2-foot-tall minimotorcycles that look almost exactly like racing bikes -- will be impounded and the riders ticketed if they are caught driving them on city streets.
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Cash set aside for greenbelt Monday, June 28, 2004 - Six years after a landslide destroyed three homes in an El Nio storm, the city will make good on its long-standing promise to develop a greenbelt on the barren hillside, officials said Monday.
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From Senator Feinstein
Senate Approves Cornyn-Feinstein Anti-Piracy Bill
The U.S. Senate today unanimously passed legislation sponsored by U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would crack down on video and audio piracy, which is having an increasingly damaging impact on the entertainment industry.
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Senate Passes Identity Theft Legislation
Senator Feinstein calls on President Bush for swift enactment
The U.S. Senate today unanimously passed legislation to increase penalties for identity theft that was first introduced by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
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