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Baseball fans: Take a quick tour of all 30 major league ballparks
Authors Josh Pahigian and Kevin O’Connell explore America's major league ballparks in "The Ultimate Baseball Road."
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Retired NBA Finals MVPs: What are they doing now?
The Most Valuable Player in the NBA Finals is an award that's only been around since 1969. Find out what retired Finals MVPs are doing today.
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Rush hour nightmares: which US cities have the worst backups
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In Pictures: Storm surfing
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Carmageddon? Please! Four of the world's worst traffic jams.
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How military families will celebrate holidays with deployed relatives
Planning months in advance to soothe holiday separation, military families open presents via Skype or send care packages to deployed loved ones.
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Mystery missile? Pentagon, NASA experts say it was a plane
Mystery missile: Pentagon and NASA experts say the mysterious plume off southern California Monday was probably made by a jetliner and not by some mystery missile.
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California 'mystery missile' ignites debate: Friend, foe, or faux?
News video showed a spectacular contrail Monday off California's coast, and debate over the 'mystery missile' blasted off. But even as government agencies said 'it wasn't us,' the US denied any threat.
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Mysterious missile off California coast has many puzzled
Mysterious missile: CBS affiliate KCBS caught the launch on camera and reported that military officials were 'tight-lipped over the nature of the projectile.'
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Toyota lawsuit: Did automaker buy up cars to hide defects?
Toyota lawsuit charges the automaker with buying up defective cars in exchange for confidentiality agreements. Toyota denies the allegations.
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Airline tickets: Airlines boost profits by selling fewer of them
Airline tickets aren't as plentiful as in 2008, allowing airlines to price them higher.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 10/19
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California and 'left coast' bucking the pro-GOP election trend?
In some key Senate and governors' races, the 'left coast' of California, Washington, and Oregon isn't tilting toward GOP as much as the rest of the country. Why not?
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Dreams of the middle class deferred by the recession
The recession has stalled the expectation of upward mobility in the American middle class: The unemployed are forced to live frugally, while many others choose financially cautious paths.
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Marijuana legalization: Prop 19 in California starved for cash
Proposition 19, the California ballot measure to legalize marijuana possession and cultivation for adults has raised $2.1 million. Most of the money is from one donor: Richard Lee, a medical marijuana entrepreneur.
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LA heat record set on Monday; more hot weather expected Tuesday
LA heat record of over 110 degrees was set on Monday, just after noon in the downtown area. More high temperatures, though not record-setting, are forecast for Tuesday for LA.
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Why Whitman and Brown are deadlocked in California governor's race
The latest poll of the California governor's race shows Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown tied at 41 percent. Many voters remain undecided, so upcoming debates will be crucial.
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'The Town' is talk of box office, opening with $23.8M
'The Town' has earned rave reviews. This is the second movie directed by Ben Affleck, who stars alongside Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm and Chris Cooper.
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Reggie Bush says he's giving back his Heisman Trophy
Reggie Bush won the Heisman Trophy as college football's best player in 2005. Now, following NCAA sanctions leveled against the USC football program, Reggie Bush is forfeiting the Heisman Trophy.
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A character not listed in TV dramas: The city itself
As 'Law & Order: Los Angeles' ramps up, the role cities play in storytelling is seen in the tone, shaping of other characters, and cultural backdrop.
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Mexico's ground still moving from April earthquake
The 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Baja California and the American Southwest is continuing to displace the ground, according to NASA radar images.
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Can huge Mojave wind farm boost faltering wind power industry?
Construction began last week on a wind power plant in the Mojave Desert. Its developers say it will be the nation's biggest but it comes amid dimming prospects for wind power in the US.
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Birthplace of the drive-thru bans them to curb obesity
Baldwin Park, Calif., home of the first-ever drive-through restaurant – an In N Out Burger – has banned construction of new ones for nine months in an effort to curb obesity.
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Hoover's dam folly: Why Keynesian New Deal policies failed
Politicians cannot calculate the economic profits and losses of government interventions.
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Ventura fire, along with two others, keeping California firefighters busy
Ventura fire threatened nearby homes, but was 60 percent contained by late Tuesday, fire officials said.
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California quake related to Easter temblor
California quake was centered 28 miles south of Palm Springs and was related to the powerful Easter Day quake, but was not an aftershock.
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Linda Lingle's veto of civil unions in Hawaii may prompt boycott
Linda Lingle's office also received dozens of angry calls, many of them saying they would not travel to the state.
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Opinion: Arizona’s next ugly battle: citizenship for immigrant children
The same state senator behind Arizona’s strict immigration laws is now pushing a troubling bill to ban birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
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Abby Sunderland happy to be home, but sad sailing trip ended
Abby Sunderland held a press conference today in California. The 16-year-old sailor said she's proud that she made it 12,000 nautical miles.
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Abby Sunderland returning home
Abby Sunderland, the teen sailor who attempted to sail solo around the world, is returning to the port from which she launched her voyage five months ago.
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