2 Ahwatukee 12-year-olds conquer Alcatraz swim

04/27/11 Aidan Schramm and Maddy Kovacs brave cold waters of San Francisco Bay to pull off goal.

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Construction begins on I-5 carpool lanes

04/27/11 The high-occupancy vehicle lanes will eventually ease traffic from the 134 to the Antelope Valley.

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William Morris closes The Mail Room (Fund)

04/26/11 The Mail Room Fund launched three years ago to a flurry of Hollywood fanfare. Now it has disappeared with nary a whimper.

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US Forest Service to announce updated firefighting policies following Station Fire

04/26/11 A Los Angeles County fire fighter sprays water on burning trees as he fights the Station Fire in Acton, California. The out of control Station Fire burned more than 160,000 acres.

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Patt Diroll's Social Calendar, April 25

04/25/11 The kick-off event for the third annual Hillsides Foster Soles, an online celebrity shoe auction to benefit Hillsides Foster Care. 6 to 9 p.m. Barcelona, 46 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. $30 in advance; $50 at the door. Visit Hillsides.org .

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Larry Wilson: Tour Altadena's Wild Wood for a trip to a Greener past

04/24/11 Things are different up in Altadena - though we knew that. Earthier. Quieter. The old, weird America, as Bob Dylan had it.

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In the military, April 13

04/13/11 Army National Guard Pvt. Fernando Bello has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.

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Clean and green

04/12/11 PASADENA - Los Angeles County residents want more than a clean house from a maid service - they want a clean, healthy and green home, said Peter Lowin.

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Eureka, Calif.: Feeling hot, hot, hot?

04/11/11 It's not 584 degrees in Eureka. That's what Monday's weather page reported for Sunday's high temperature in the Northern California city. It's clearly a typo, but a couple of readers had some fun reporting the error. "According to your California...

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Patt Diroll's Social Calendar, April 10

04/10/11 Wednesday: Opening of Yasmina Reza's "God of Carnage." 8 p.m. Performances continue through May 29.

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FBI Sting: LA Building Officials Arrested

04/08/11 Two senior building inspectors from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety allegedly accepted more than $15,000 in bribes.

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Coal Porters Announces American Shows

03/28/11 This spring, the Coal Porters will play three shows in the L.A. area

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Larry Wilson: When the weather gods cooperate with City Hall

03/23/11 I'D been bemoaning this yard-watering crackdown currently affecting Pasadena and a bunch of surrounding cities and areas - Altadena, Arcadia, LCF, Monrovia, San Gabriel, San Marino, South Pas and Temple City among them - since before the Flood.

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More rain headed to Southern California

03/22/11 Forecasters say another cold rainstorm is on tap for Southern California and set to arrive by Wednesday evening. The breezy, Arctic storm is expected to drop 1 to 2 inches of rain and stir up to 20 mph to 30...

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Sewery at California: rigorous as never

03/12/11 When Allan Sloan hired a plumber to get to the bottom of his chronic plumbing problems, he discovere...
 

Lighting Science Group Pursues Prestigious L Prize With Revolutionary New LED Bulb

03/07/11 Lighting Science Group Corporation , a leading American maker of LED lighting, today notified the U.S. Department of Energy that it has developed with Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC a highly efficient, high output and low cost 60-watt replacement LED bulb, and will submit it for testing to win the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize competition.

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Southland Gasoline Prices Rise to Highest Since August 2008

03/07/11 Cars lined up at the Arco station at Hadley Street and Pickering Avenue in Whittier on Monday morning.

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Patt Diroll Social Calendar, March 3

03/03/11 SATURDAY: The Colburn School Orchestra performs works by Stravinsky, Brahms and Berlioz with mezzo-soprano Michelle De Young.

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Social calendar, Mar. 1

02/28/11 Zubin Mehta leads the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra in symphonies by Joseph Haydn and Gustav Mahler.

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Patt Diroll's Social Calendar, Feb. 28

02/28/11 Monday: Las Candelas Biennial Fashion Show and Boutique to benefit the children who reside at Hathaway-Sycamores in Altadena and Hillsides in Pasadena.

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Photos capture a snow day in L.A. -- or as close to one as Los Angeles will get

02/27/11 Snow falling in parts of Southern California had residents scurrying outdoors as well as shaking their heads in wonder. Matthew Currie Holmes, an actor in Burbank, said: "It just started coming down as hail, and then there was this giant...

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