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Elephant meat seized in Los Angeles
Elephant meat seized: US Customs has seized elephant meat, a dead macaque primate from Indonesia, and 387 handbags made from pythons, monitor lizards, dwarf crocodiles, cobras and puff adder snakes.
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Boston explosions: Cities on alert in US and UK
Boston explosions: Los Angeles, New York City, and London have stepped up security in the wake of two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
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L.A. Nordstrom Rack hostage drama: Five arrested
Twenty detectives worked on the case around the clock and all five suspects were identified and arrested by Saturday evening, Beck said.
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Police: Some of 14 hostages freed from L.A. clothing store were assaulted
The ordeal began around 11 p.m. Thursday and ended around 3 a.m. Friday when a SWAT team entered the store but found no robbers.
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Port strike averted in eastern US, for now. Is labor starting to claw back?
Eastern port operators and longshoremen agreed Friday on a royalties package, extending contract negotiations 30 days. The strike threat at ports signals that labor is ready to fight for its life, experts say.
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Shirtless photo a joke says FBI agent in Petraeus scandal (+video)
Shirtless photo: 'A joke' says Frederick Humphries, the FBI agent contacted by Jill Kelley to stop harassing emails sent by the woman having an affair with Gen. David Petraeus. The shirtless photo shows Humpries posed between two shirtless target dummies.
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Petraeus scandal: How did FBI agent know Jill Kelley?
FBI Special Agent Frederick Humphries II and Jill Kelley met at a 2011 FBI Citizens Academy in Florida. Agent Humphries once played a key role in stopping a terrorist attack in Los Angeles.
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Space shuttle Endeavour's L.A. journey subject of beautiful time-lapse video
The amazing time-lapse view of Endeavour's L.A. street journey, which ran from Friday to late Sunday, was created by a team of photographers organized by Matthew Givot
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Shuttle X-ing: Endeavour spacecraft slowly winds through L.A.
In retirement, it's crawling along the streets of Los Angeles at a sluggish 2 mph, a pace that rush-hour commuters can sympathize with.
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Space shuttle Endeavour: A final 2 m.p.h. mission through Los Angeles
The space shuttle Endeavour began its 2-mph crawl through streets of Los Angeles at about 2 a.m. Friday. A retired laser scientist uses Endeavour's terrestrial crawl as a teaching moment for Los Angeles school children.
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Space shuttle Endeavour touches down (+video)
The space shuttle Endeavour landed in California on its way to its final resting place. On the way, it made a flyover in Tucson, Arizona where former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, Endeavour's retired commander, were watching.
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Space shuttle Endeavour piggybacks on 747 for last leg of Calif. journey (+video)
Today, Endeavour and its carrier plane, called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, will soar over Austin and refuel at Biggs Army Base in El Paso, Texas, before continuing west toward California.
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Space shuttle Endeavour makes layover in Houston, next stop L.A. (+video)
Endeavour landed in Houston while riding piggyback atop a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet to end the first leg of its three-day journey to Los Angeles, where the retired space shuttle will ultimately be transformed into a museum exhibit at the California Science Center.
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Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off for last time, heading to California
The space shuttle Endeavour, bolted atop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, left its Florida home port for the last time on Wednesday and headed to California to begin a new mission as a museum exhibit.
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Occupy 2012: Day 1 of protests yields a mixed review (+video)
Turnout for the Occupy movement's May Day protests was respectable in New York and Chicago. In some West Coast cities, police resorted to tear gas or pepper spray. Did the movement do itself any favors during its relaunch on Tuesday?
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May Day: Tear gas in Oakland, broken windows in Seattle (+video)
Most of the May Day protests were peaceful, but violence reared its head in some cities. The Occupy Wall Street movement was at the forefront of many rallies.
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TSA officers charged in drug smuggling conspiracy
The screeners were accepting large cash payments to look the other way as drug couriers smuggled cocaine through security at LAX.
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F-16 fighters intercept small plane too close into Obama's airspace
Two F-16 fighter jets made contact with the pilot of the Cessna 182, a single-engine plane, that strayed into restricted airspace around President Obama's helicopter on Thursday in Los Angeles. More than 20 pounds of marijuana was later found aboard the intruding aircraft, officials said.
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Words with Friends gets actor Alec Baldwin kicked off flight
The Words with Friends cellphone game seems to have gotten Alec Baldwin kicked off an American Airlines flight from LA to New York.
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Santa Ana winds: Pasadena on emergency footing as powerful winds whip Southern California (VIDEO)
Santa Ana winds: Pasadena is reporting hundreds of trees down and one wind-related injury. Hundreds of thousands of Southern California residents are without power from the worst Santa Anna winds in more than a decade.
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Hunker down or flee? Los Angelenos gird for 'carmageddon' on I-405
With the shutdown of the key I-405 freeway in Los Angeles this weekend threatening 'carmageddon,' city residents and businesses are finding ways to help one another cope.
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In Pictures: Carmageddon in Los Angeles
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In Pictures: Sneaky smugglers
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 11/24
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In Pictures: Airport security
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