Saturday's headlines
Tonight, some lucky fans of the Rolling Stones will get to see the band live, at Echoplex (reportedly) in Echo Park. Tickets went on sale this afternoon at 1 p.m. and were all gone within an hour. You had to enter a lottery to win the right to buy one ticket for $20. Cash only.
Governor Brown thinks that it is "equal" to take money from "wealthier" school districts and spend more per student in "poorer" districts. At the same time, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified has Santa Monica and Malibu both wanted to explore the separation of the district into two separate districts. Over money.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer fell from his bicycle and broke his shoulder, requiring surgery today.
A karate instructor in Tupelo, MS was arrested in connection with the three letters containing ricin that were sent to a U.S. Senator from MS, President Obama and a judge.
$17.5 million has been raised thus far for the L.A. Mayoral election. Over $6 million of that has come from so-called "Super PACs", which negate the limits on campaign contributions the city's voters put into effect over 30 years ago.
Police in Simi Valley arrested a 52 year old man dressed as a woman for soliciting sex from a teen boy. Police said that they couldn't tell the man, wearing skinny jeans, high heels and a tight top, wasn't female until the time of the arrest. The man's identity was not disclosed.
A man in a wheelchair in Glendale found himself being pulled from the chair by another man, so that the other man could steal the chair. Phillip Papineau has been charged with felony grand theft and felony petty theft with priors and has pled not guilty. He was allegedly planning to use the wheelchair as a prop for panhandling.
David Gold, the founder of the 99 Cents Only chain of stores has died at the age of 80.
The official results were released on Thursday. Rodney Allen Rippy did finish 10th among the 12 candidates running to become mayor of Compton. There will be a run-off between the two top vote getters.
There is a typo somewhere in the legislation that will enable the FAA to move money around in order to stop the furloughs for air traffic controllers that is preventing President Obama from signing it. However, the FAA is going to have them back at work at normal staffing levels, perhaps as early as Sunday.
A military couple who both served in the Vermont National Guard have won a dream wedding worth $70,000 from a group named "A Salute To Our Soldiers". Their story is amazing. http://www.wcax.com/story/22058414/vt-military-couple-wins-dream-wedding?hpt=us_bn7
The city council of Citrus Heights, near Sacramento is opposed to an effort underway in the California Legislator to pass a "Homeless Bill of Rights" that would allow people to sleep in public parks, aggressive panhandling and 24/7 access to "hygiene facilities" at public expense.
A Las Vegas man has given 100 meals to strangers as his latest random act of kindness. When his wife was dying, four years ago, Marcus Mitchell promised he would dedicate his life to this. Since then he's spent half of what he makes on the project.
A Mechanicsville, VA woman is trying to move on with her life, after a judge sentenced her to ten years in prison and then suspended the sentence. So she will serve no jail time for having defrauded people by claiming she had cancer when she was not ill. She was ultimately diagnosed as having a form of mental illness that caused her to claim she was sick.
Osawatomie is a town in Kansas that doesn't have a swimming pool that is usable at the moment, and the city council just turned down a donation of $150,000 to repair it. They are afraid it will cost more than that to fix the pool and they didn't want to spend the money.
Rebecca Martinson gained instant fame when the expletive-laced email she sent to all of her sorority sisters went viral. She was forced to resign from Delta Gamma in disgrace. Now she has a job offer from ScoresLive.com, a "sex chat/stripper" website. They're even offering a $10,000 signing bonus.
Governor Brown thinks that it is "equal" to take money from "wealthier" school districts and spend more per student in "poorer" districts. At the same time, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified has Santa Monica and Malibu both wanted to explore the separation of the district into two separate districts. Over money.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer fell from his bicycle and broke his shoulder, requiring surgery today.
A karate instructor in Tupelo, MS was arrested in connection with the three letters containing ricin that were sent to a U.S. Senator from MS, President Obama and a judge.
$17.5 million has been raised thus far for the L.A. Mayoral election. Over $6 million of that has come from so-called "Super PACs", which negate the limits on campaign contributions the city's voters put into effect over 30 years ago.
Police in Simi Valley arrested a 52 year old man dressed as a woman for soliciting sex from a teen boy. Police said that they couldn't tell the man, wearing skinny jeans, high heels and a tight top, wasn't female until the time of the arrest. The man's identity was not disclosed.
A man in a wheelchair in Glendale found himself being pulled from the chair by another man, so that the other man could steal the chair. Phillip Papineau has been charged with felony grand theft and felony petty theft with priors and has pled not guilty. He was allegedly planning to use the wheelchair as a prop for panhandling.
David Gold, the founder of the 99 Cents Only chain of stores has died at the age of 80.
The official results were released on Thursday. Rodney Allen Rippy did finish 10th among the 12 candidates running to become mayor of Compton. There will be a run-off between the two top vote getters.
There is a typo somewhere in the legislation that will enable the FAA to move money around in order to stop the furloughs for air traffic controllers that is preventing President Obama from signing it. However, the FAA is going to have them back at work at normal staffing levels, perhaps as early as Sunday.
A military couple who both served in the Vermont National Guard have won a dream wedding worth $70,000 from a group named "A Salute To Our Soldiers". Their story is amazing. http://www.wcax.com/story/22058414/vt-military-couple-wins-dream-wedding?hpt=us_bn7
The city council of Citrus Heights, near Sacramento is opposed to an effort underway in the California Legislator to pass a "Homeless Bill of Rights" that would allow people to sleep in public parks, aggressive panhandling and 24/7 access to "hygiene facilities" at public expense.
A Las Vegas man has given 100 meals to strangers as his latest random act of kindness. When his wife was dying, four years ago, Marcus Mitchell promised he would dedicate his life to this. Since then he's spent half of what he makes on the project.
A Mechanicsville, VA woman is trying to move on with her life, after a judge sentenced her to ten years in prison and then suspended the sentence. So she will serve no jail time for having defrauded people by claiming she had cancer when she was not ill. She was ultimately diagnosed as having a form of mental illness that caused her to claim she was sick.
Osawatomie is a town in Kansas that doesn't have a swimming pool that is usable at the moment, and the city council just turned down a donation of $150,000 to repair it. They are afraid it will cost more than that to fix the pool and they didn't want to spend the money.
Rebecca Martinson gained instant fame when the expletive-laced email she sent to all of her sorority sisters went viral. She was forced to resign from Delta Gamma in disgrace. Now she has a job offer from ScoresLive.com, a "sex chat/stripper" website. They're even offering a $10,000 signing bonus.
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