Porn coalition lifts industry-wide moratorium on filming

An adult-film trade group has lifted an industry-wide production moratorium that was prompted by an actress' positive HIV test. Free Speech Coalition, a Canoga Park-based association for the industry, said Wednesday that all on-screen partners of the...

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Pass rates up for online classes at San Jose State

Students who took online classes in a summer program at San Jose State University performed better than those who took the same online classes in the spring, a result that is likely to provide a boost to a highly touted but problem-plagued collaboration...

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Rim fire containment expected by Sept. 10

GROVELAND, Calif. — The Rim fire should be fully contained by Sept. 10, a fire official said Wednesday, as lower temperatures, higher humidity and lighter winds allow crews to make headway against the sprawling blaze that has swept into Yosemite National...

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Tracing the historic margins of Los Angeles

A tour bus pulled up outside of a sun-baked strip mall in Monterey Park and 30 sightseers stepped out. They had come to behold Wing Hop Fung, a sprawling tea and herb emporium that moved here several years ago from Chinatown to serve the growing population...

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Release of L.A. teachers' performance ratings delayed by judge

The performance ratings of individual teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District will be kept confidential until a legal battle over them is resolved, a judge decided Tuesday. L.A. County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant had ruled earlier...

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Rim fire spreads deeper into Yosemite

GROVELAND, Calif. — The Rim fire spread deeper into Yosemite National Park on Tuesday with flames racing unimpeded to the east even as firefighters shored up defenses for communities on the western edges of the blaze. The fire was 20% contained by Tuesday...

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Jerry Brown has plan to ease prison crowding without early releases

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown and top lawmakers pledged Tuesday to ease prison crowding without releasing inmates early, laying out a plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for alternate housing. The proposal, which has divided Democratic leaders,...

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Gov. Jerry Brown signs nearly 30 bills into law

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown signed nearly 30 measures into law Tuesday, including one allowing noncitizens who are permanent legal residents to serve as poll workers in California elections. The measure will provide more multilingual poll workers...

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Southern California renters have an edge over home buyers

With a frenzied housing market shutting out would-be buyers all over Southern California, sending that check to the landlord is looking smarter every day. The rental market provides a stark contrast to the red-hot housing recovery. In Los Angeles County,...

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State Sen. Ronald Calderon's choice of a spokesman troubles some

SACRAMENTO — As state Sen. Ronald Calderon labors in the shadow of a federal corruption investigation, he is relying on a former politician who knows what it is like to be in prosecutors' cross hairs. Calderon's chief spokesman is former Bell Gardens...

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Raging Yosemite fire spreads fear, frustration

GROVELAND — One of the largest wildfires in recent California history raged out of control in and around Yosemite National Park on Saturday, charring more than 125,000 acres, briefly threatening San Francisco's power supply and frustrating firefighters'...

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Korean pop fans get intimate with the music at KCON

Alyssa Tolentino, 18, came all the way from Chicago to see the South Korean male pop group EXO perform in Los Angeles this weekend. But before the show, she gave a performance of her own at the KCON convention Saturday at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports...

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$3-billion proposal to repair Los Angeles streets advances

Los Angeles lawmakers Wednesday agreed to pursue further analysis of an ambitious $3-billion proposal to fix thousands of miles of the city's most deteriorated streets. The money could come from a mix of sources, officials say, including a property...

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Judge awards $3 million in drug agents' killing of teenager

A "freakish series of events" led to honor student Zachary Champommier's death on a night in June 2010 — that much is clear, a federal judge said Wednesday. But whether the plainclothes drug enforcement officers who shot the 18-year-old after he drove...

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For thousands of new Americans, a day of pride and joy

Maybe at times you feel let down by your country — by your taxes, by your Congress, by most everything being made somewhere else. Maybe those feelings eat away at you as you toss and turn in bed, inch bumper-to-bumper on a potholed freeway, watch the...

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San Diego officials say proposal to resolve Filner scandal is ready

SAN DIEGO — City officials announced Wednesday night that mediation has resulted in a proposal aimed at ending the scandal that has gripped the city since women began accusing Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment. At issue during the mediation has...

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Journalist Michael Hastings died instantly in crash, coroner says

Ending two months of speculation and conspiracy theories about the death of journalist Michael Hastings, the Los Angeles County coroner has determined that the reporter died instantly from "massive blunt force trauma" in the fiery June crash. The coroner's...

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County supervisors OK $29 million more for MLK hospital

County leaders approved $29 million in new spending on rebuilding a long-awaited hospital in South Los Angeles on Tuesday, but held back from paying all that county officials had sought. The action brings the total price tag of the Martin Luther King...

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L.A. pushed to review quake-vulnerable apartment buildings

Seismic experts and engineers have long warned that a certain type of wood-framed building is particularly vulnerable to collapse during a major earthquake, because the first story cannot support the weight of the upper stories. During Southern California's...

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L.A. airports panel throws out bids on media services contract

The bids for a lucrative media services contract at Los Angeles International Airport were thrown out Tuesday amid conflict of interest allegations involving a former airport commission president. In a rare decision, the Board of Airport Commissioners...

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Principal who owns for-profit sports camp welcomes independent review

Carter Paysinger, the principal of Beverly Hills High School, said Monday that he welcomes an independent review called by the Beverly Hills Unified School District into the for-profit summer sports camp he owns. The review was in response to an article...

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Lesson for college-bound: never give up

They lured him with Clippers tickets and the promise of money for college. The deal required Eric Antuche to give up years of Saturday mornings. But it all paid off for the graduate of Verbum Dei High School in Watts. His family drove him up to Humboldt...

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Environmentalists object to bill that would change Tahoe rules

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — As political leaders from California and Nevada gathered on the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe to discuss ways to protect it, environmentalists protested that a bill in California could reverse nearly two decades of environmental...

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Bay Area limousine fire that killed 5 was accidental, officials say

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A limousine fire that claimed the lives of five women en route to a bridal party in early May was "accidental in nature" and no criminal charges will be filed, law enforcement officials said Monday at the end of a three-month investigation....

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