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From the LA Times:

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Border Patrol Agents Giving LAX a Careful Look
In a crackdown on human smuggling, officials are putting travelers under scrutiny.
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King/Drew Treatment Errors Cited
U.S. inspectors discover medication mistakes and nursing lapses at the troubled hospital. Report also finds soiled bedding, holes in walls.
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Youth Prisons to Stop Use of Extended Isolation
The confinement, called barbaric by state Senate panel, has been blamed in recent suicides.
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Jailers' Lapses Led to Slaying, Report Says
Deputies violated policies that could have prevented the killing of inmate, review shows.
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LAPD Tightens Rules on Use-of-Force Probes
Chief Bratton orders the immediate separation of officers after any incident involving potential deadly action.
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City Panels Back Plan to Hinder Wal-Mart Stores
Firm would have to fund economic impact studies before opening new outlets. Full council will consider the proposal.
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Santa Clarita Sues Over Proposed Gravel Mine
The city of Santa Clarita has sued Los Angeles County over a massive sand and gravel mine proposed for east of the city, alleging the county's approval of the project violated California environmental quality laws.
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Man With TV Show Alibi Sues LAPD
He accuses police of violating his civil rights after taped footage puts him at Dodger Stadium at time of slaying.
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Antonovich plugs tax alternative
Rather than raising sales tax, supervisor wants to use tobacco settlement money to fund law enforcement.
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From the Daily News:

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Busway Stopper
The brains behind the San Fernando Valley residents group that has stopped construction of the Orange Line busway is a former Los Angeles transit official who has worked as a highly paid consultant to MTA unions, the Bus Riders Union and even the Los Angeles school district.
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Council: Start gridlock relief
The Los Angeles City Council urged the start Wednesday of $400,000 in short-term improvements along the 101 Freeway corridor, despite warnings they may not be enough to ease congestion.
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Bratton orders changes
In the second major LAPD reform stemming from the videotaped beating of a car-theft suspect, Chief William Bratton ordered police commanders Wednesday to thoroughly investigate some use-of-force incidents that previously were treated as routine.
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Gift of public funds? Can't have that!
Leave it to those subversives on the West Hills Neighborhood Council to try and compromise the high ethical standards of the city of Los Angeles.
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Fe-9 team called in for rat control
PACOIMA -- There's a new kind of cop at LAPD Foothill Division.
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