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Penny Marshall, ‘Laverne & Shirley’ Star And ‘Big’ Filmmaker, Dead At 75 Actress Penny Marshall, best known for TV’s “Laverne & Shirley” and director of hit films “Big” and “A League Of Their Own”, has died. Engineer Gets Revenge On Porch Pirates With Glitter BombThe former JPL scientist spent several months creating a fake package […]

A mid-February sentencing date was set for a Los Angeles man who has been prosecuted 10 times for groping women and girls on Metro buses and other public-transportation lines. In his latest case, Ager Linder pleaded no contest to two counts of child molestation, three counts of sexual battery and one count of battery on […]

While sharks prevail in the oceans, they are no match for fishers who catch them to cut off their fins for sale. Up to 73 million sharks are pulled from the water each year, according to the ocean protection organization Oceana, and hauled on board a fishing vessel, where their fins are sawed off their […]

Through the columns, Allen evolves from, in his own words, “a wannabe Dave Barry” looking to hone his craft at a regional paper before moving on to the big leagues into someone who grew to love the area he covered and never left. “On Track” at its best offers small vignettes — an Ontario man […]

State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has been pushing for even more dramatic change. Last year he offered a hotly disputed bill to override local zoning and allow taller, denser housing around transit stations — even on single-family lots. That proposal didn’t make it past the first committee hearing, felled by concerns that it would […]

During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a speech in Richmond, Va., after which the stage he’d been standing on collapsed. “I’m glad the general wasn’t hurt,” quipped his Democratic opponent, Adlai Stevenson. “I’ve been telling him for two months that nobody could stand on that platform.” This kind of humor […]