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From the LA Times:

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Probes Target Bail Bond Firms
Officials say laxity lets hundreds flee, costs counties dearly
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Sheriff Sticks to His Guns on Sales Tax Plan
Baca refused to take no for an answer in his drive to ask voters for a half-cent increase to put more officers on streets. <full story>

Beating Report Almost Done
Investigation of police who struck alleged car thief will be completed soon, the LAPD's inspector general says at community session.
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From the Daily News:

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Miffed about hotel plans
As plans for Los Angeles' new Convention Center hotel begin to take shape, concerns are rising that a proposed tax subsidy will sweeten the paychecks of union workers and bring windfall profits to the facility's operator.
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Arson suspect caught
ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST -- A man seen running from two fires Saturday in the brush-covered wilderness between the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys has been arrested on suspicion of arson, authorities said.
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Let's honor them while they're alive
I don't know why we require our heroes to be heroic. We prefer them cast in bronze, perfect, faultless, fearless and unflinching. But in the real world there is no courage without fear, and heroes should be treasured precisely because they are human; frail, troublesome, argumentative, annoying, frightened, flawed and funny humans.
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