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From the LA Times:

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Competing Measures Add to Complexity of State Ballot
Californians face one of the longest and most complicated ballots in the nine decades since the state invoked direct democracy - putting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the defensive to protect his political fortune and leaving voters to sort out a patchwork of ideas.
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Prisons Promise a New Code for Guards
SACRAMENTO - Facing unprecedented warnings from a federal judge, managers of California's teeming prisons are overhauling an internal disciplinary system that consistently fails to curb corruption and rein in rogue guards.
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Night Greets the Newly Freed
The scene can be eerie as dozens, sometimes even 100, L.A. County inmates are released onto darkened streets in the wee hours.
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Oilmen Upset About New County Seal
Planned removal of derricks symbolizing vast oil fields does not sit well in Signal Hill.
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Murder Rate Anomaly: Fewer Shot
An increase in L.A. homicides has become a campaign issue. But a drop in shooting victims suggests the cause of the trend is complex.
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Church Leader Gets Sign From City as He Retires
Rev. Cecil Murray, who led First AME for 27 years, has a stretch of road named after him.
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Beach Is Closed After Spill
About 10,000 gallons of sewage flows from a ruptured line in Redondo Beach.
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From the Daily News:

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L.A.'s real estate spree
With no master plan to guide them, Los Angeles officials have bought more than $100 million in real estate in each of the past two years, prompting critics to accuse them of being on a buying binge without a strategy.
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Tracking a killer
SYLMAR -- In a sterile, windowless laboratory, mosquitoes collected from parks, golf courses and even some back yards across the region sit on counters.
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Council incumbents far ahead in race for campaign funds
As the presidential campaign shows, some wounds never heal.
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Utility fears rolling blackouts
Southern California Edison officials on Sunday urged customers in Ventura and west Los Angeles county areas to conserve electricity after an equipment failure at a substation in Moorpark.
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Heed wildfire evacuations
CRESTLINE, Calif. -- As wildfires ravaged the mountains east of Los Angeles last fall, not everyone joined the tens of thousands of evacuees who fled, clutching pets, photos and heirlooms.
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Al-Khatib joins anti-terror panel
PALMDALE -- Palmdale businessman Kamal Al-Khatib has been named to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department advisory panel on terrorism.
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