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Tarantino Film Editor Dies During LA Heat-Wave Hike

Sally Menke worked with director beginning with Reservoir Dogs

(Newser) - Renowned movie editor Sally Menke, 56, was found dead after going for a hike in the Hollywood Hills during yesterday's record-breaking heat wave . Investigators believe she became disoriented in the extreme heat and suspect heat stroke was the cause of her death, the Los Angeles Times reports. Her severely dehydrated...

LA's New Heat Record: 113 Degrees

Heat wave breaks official thermometer

(Newser) - Heat records melted in a scorching day across southern California yesterday, with downtown Los Angeles recording the highest temperature since records began in 1877. The National Weather Service's thermometer hit 113º around noon before breaking down, and officials say the day's true temperature could have been even higher, the Los ...

Cops: Bound Dead Man at LAX Killed Himself

He's found in airport bathroom with hands tied, bag over head

(Newser) - A man found dead in a bathroom stall at Los Angeles International Airport with a bag over his head and his hands tied behind his back appears to have killed himself, police say. The man, who had a history of mental illness, seems to have placed a plastic bag over...

Brangelina Snag $40M Italian Villa

Brood will use new luxe digs for vacay getaway

(Newser) - Another day, another mansion. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have scooped up new luxury digs, this time a $40 million villa in the Valpolicella Hills of northern Italy, the Daily Mail reports. The Villa Costanza features 15 bedrooms, seven bathrooms, several Jacuzzis, two swimming pools, a gym, stable, vineyard, and...

LA Riot Erupts After Police Shooting

Man hurt as crowd protesting Guatemalan's death attacks police station

(Newser) - A broiling mob protesting the police shooting death of a Guatemalan immigrant in Los Angeles faced off last night against cops in riot gear who fired non-lethal foam projectiles at demonstrators. At least one man was injured as some 300 people set street fires and gathered outside a police station...

Bomb Note Found on Thai Flight to LA

Plane grounded at LAX as feds investigate

(Newser) - Federal authorities grilled passengers and crew from a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok to Los Angeles where a bomb threat was written on a bathroom mirror. Flight 794 was grounded at LAX after landing last night and taken to a remote area of the airport where 171 passengers were safely...

Cops ID Owner of Trunk With Dead Babies

Name Janet Mann Barrie, Peter Pan link ruled out

(Newser) - Police investigating the mummified remains of two babies wrapped in newspapers from the '30s and found in a Los Angles basement have made a breakthrough: The trunk the bodies were found in belonged to Scottish-born nurse Janet Mann Barrie, investigators say. She was employed for decades by George and Mary...

LA: Only 41 Pot Dispensaries Can Stay Open

City facing flood of lawsuits after strict ruling

(Newser) - Los Angeles may soon be facing a major shortage of marijuana dispensaries. City officials have taken a much stricter than expected approach to an ordinance regulating dispensaries and ruled that only 41 can stay open—less than a quarter of the 180 who were allowed to apply for permits to...

Cash-Strapped LA Builds $578M School

And it's the district's third 'Taj Mahal'

(Newser) - The Los Angeles Unified School District is facing a $640 million budget shortfall, but you’d never know it by looking at its newest school. The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex will be the nation’s most expensive public school when it opens next month, clocking in at $578...

Women Rally to Go Topless
 Women Rally to Go Topless 
FREE THE BREAST
Aug 23, 2010 5:23 AM CDT

Women Rally to Go Topless

Over the top protest against 'gender discrimination'

(Newser) - The protesters wanted to get something off their chest—namely, their tops—and most passers-by were thrilled they did. A Los Angeles beach yesterday became the latest site of the growing "Go Topless" movement by women who are demanding the same rights as men to go bare chested. Some...

Clues in 1930s Baby-Mummies Case Point to Peter Pan Link

One suspect related to author JM Barrie

(Newser) - Police investigating the two mummified babies found in an LA basement have hit on a curious, but unlikely, person-of-interest. Medical forms found in the same trunk as the bodies refer to a woman named Jean M. Barrie, who was, it seems, a local nurse. But it’s also possible, sources...

Dead Babies From 1930s Found in LA Cellar

Two newborns found wrapped in newspapers, inside trunks

(Newser) - The bodies of two infants hidden more than 70 years ago were discovered in an LA basement near MacArthur Park. The infants were newborns, found at the bottom of steamer trunks and wrapped in newspapers from the 1930s. "We got all excited because the first thing we found was...

Two Killed in LA Explosion, Fire

Natural gas blast destroys 2-story building

(Newser) - Two people was killed today when a gas explosion ripped through a building in South Los Angeles. What firefighters described as a violent natural gas explosion occurred at 6:15am at a 2-story building that houses a welding operation, causing the facade to collapse and starting a fire, NBC Los...

Stained Car Seats Could Be Key to Grim Sleeper Case

Investigators also take guns and porn from his home

(Newser) - Investigators have begun the long slog of trying to make a case against the suspected Grim Sleeper serial killer. Among the items pulled from the Los Angeles home of Lonnie David Franklin Jr.: guns, handcuffs, a cop's notebook, a ski mask, a flier of a missing woman, and porn. But...

US Not Giving Up on Nailing Polanski

Rape of a 13-year-old 'is not a technicality'

(Newser) - The US is "deeply disappointed" by the Swiss decision to free film director Roman Polanski, and authorities are considering what action to take, said a Justice Department official. Polanksi, 76, was freed after 9 months under house arrest when the Swiss Justice Ministry refused to comply with America's "...

LA Cops Arrest Alleged Grim Sleeper Serial Killer

Blamed for 11 deaths over 3 decades

(Newser) - Police have arrested a suspect in the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killings, which claimed the lives of 11 people over the last 25 years in the Los Angeles area. The suspect is identified as 51-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr., reports the LA Times . All 11 victims were thought to be...

World's Worst Commutes
 World's Worst Commutes 
Jul 2, 2010 11:31 AM CDT

World's Worst Commutes

Beijing and Mexico City lead the way

(Newser) - IBM surveyed drivers in 20 of the world's biggest cities to find the worst commutes. The bottom 5 (based on a slew of factors including time stuck in traffic and stress) in the commuter pain index are:
  1. Beijing (99 on a scale of 100)
  2. Mexico City (99)
  3. Johannesburg (97)
  4. Moscow
...

LA Coliseum Bans Raves
 LA Coliseum Bans Raves 
Jul 1, 2010 2:08 AM CDT

LA Coliseum Bans Raves

Moratorium follows teen's OD death

(Newser) - Los Angeles has banished techno parties from the Coliseum following the death of a 15-year-old girl from a suspected drug overdose at last weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival mega-rave. Authorities—who had been urged by doctors to end raves at the venue—say a temporary ban will remain in place while...

LA Docs Demand End to Raves

ER physicians slam 'government-backed drug fests'

(Newser) - More than 120 young people ended up in local hospitals after a recent mega-rave at the Los Angeles Coliseum, spurring emergency room doctors to call for a ban on such events at the publicly owned facility. "This is basically a government-encouraged drug fest. That’s the wrong message,”...

Fans Honor Michael Jackson
 Fans Honor Michael Jackson 
Jun 25, 2010 5:16 PM CDT

Fans Honor Michael Jackson

Hundreds gather in California, Indiana, Japan, New York

(Newser) - Michael Jackson fans around the world honored the singer today on the first anniversary of his death, the AP reports. About 500 fans gathered at Jackson's mausoleum outside LA for a calm but emotional tribute to the King of Pop. "He's been my idol all my life since I...

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