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  • Staff of Miramonte replaced pending sex abuse inquiry
    L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy seeks to assure angry parents, who demonstrated at campus over allegations against two teachers. Officials say no other instructors are under suspicion.

    In a dramatic move to quell parents' fears, Los Angeles school officials said they will temporarily replace the entire staff of an elementary school south of downtown Los Angeles, where two teachers have been accused of lewd acts against students.




  • A broken heart led LAPD officer to kill woman, prosecutor says
    'I'm truly in love with John,' Stephanie Lazarus wrote in a letter to her former boyfriend's mother after he became engaged to Sherri Rae Rasmussen. Lazarus is on trial in Rasmussen's 1986 killing.

    The letter read aloud in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Monday was written more than 25 years ago by a young cop. If prosecutors are correct, they were the words of a heart-broken woman on the verge of committing murder in a jealous rage.




  • In Syria, a once-quiet village tips into revolution
    Anadan, in the shadow of Syria's second-largest city, has expelled Bashar Assad's forces. It's another tug on the tightrope the president is walking.

    Off the main highway leading from the city of Aleppo, a handful of Kalashnikov-toting young men, some with their faces covered in scarves, stand at a checkpoint near the entrance to this small village. Close by flutters the green, white and black flag of Syria's opposition.




  • Schools chief announces entire Miramonte staff to be replaced
    Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy told parents Monday evening that the district is replacing the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary School in the wake of the arrests last week of two teachers on lewd conduct charges.




  • Eastwood's Super Bowl ad sparks the discord it decries
    Perhaps the most attention-getting Super Bowl ad — other than that dog blackmailing his owner with tortilla chips to keep quiet over a felinicide, of course — was Clint Eastwood’s paean to a resurgent auto industry in Detroit.




  • Miracle Mile shooting shuts Wilshire, snarls traffic
    A section of Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile district was shut down Monday afternoon as police investigated a shooting. The situation was snarling traffic in the busy area.




  • Gay marriage: Appeals court to decide fate of Prop. 8 on Tuesday
    A federal appeals court is expected to rule Tuesday on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that banned gay marriage in California.




  • Sex-abuse claims at L.A. school: Parents applaud two-day closing
    Parents of Miramonte Elementary students applauded the Los Angeles Unified School District's decision to close the school for two days this week as the campus reels from allegations that two teachers engaged in lewd conduct with students.




  • Utah police vow to continue probe into Susan Powell's disappearance
    Police in Utah said Monday that the death of Josh Powell -- the only person of interest in the disappearance of his wife, Susan, near Salt Lake City in 2009 -- will not necessarily hinder their ongoing efforts to solve the perplexing case.




  • California may join multi-state mortgage settlement
    California has until Monday to share in a multi-state deal with banks to obtain mortgage relief and reforms. Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, who walked away from talks last year, says the door remains open.

    With a Monday deadline at hand, California officials have resumed direct talks with the Obama administration about joining a multibillion-dollar, multi-state mortgage settlement with the nation's largest banks, a source said Sunday.





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