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Oil refinery explosion rips through Torrance

A powerful explosion at an oil refinery on Wednesday morning ripped apart structures and shook homes for miles around the blast site in southern Los Angeles County. The Torrance ExxonMobil Refinery, located on W. 190th St. just south of the 405 freeway, blasted apart at 8:50 am, leading to an air quality advisory due to the…

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Oil refinery explosion rips through Torrance

A powerful explosion at an oil refinery on Wednesday morning ripped apart structures and shook homes for miles around the blast site in southern Los Angeles County. The Torrance ExxonMobil Refinery, located on W. 190th St. just south of the 405 freeway, blasted apart at 8:50 am, leading to an air quality advisory due to the…

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LA Mayor, Homeland Security chief urge undocumented immigrants to ‘step forward’ 

Filipinos still awaiting TPS relief LOS ANGELES – Since President Barack Obama announced his executive action on immigration last November, hundreds of departments and organizations have been gearing up to implement the plans that are estimated to affect millions of undocumented residents living in the United States. Federal agencies such as the United States Citizenship and…

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LA Mayor, Homeland Security chief urge undocumented immigrants to ‘step forward’

Filipinos still awaiting TPS relief LOS ANGELES – Since President Barack Obama announced his executive action on immigration last November, hundreds of departments and organizations have been gearing up to implement the plans that are estimated to affect millions of undocumented residents living in the United States. Federal agencies such as the United States Citizenship and…

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Study: Cigarettes are even more deadly than you think

About 480,000 Americans die each year as a result of smoking, the US surgeon general revealed. However, new analysis by researchers from the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, and other sources suggest that this figure is actually way bigger. Twenty-one causes of death that have been officially blamed on smoking accounted for 83…

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Water wasting fines are likely for some LA residents

As California’s weather gets warmer, fines for wasting water in unincorporated, standalone areas of Los Angeles County are expected to rise sharply. On Tuesday, Feb. 10 the Board of Supervisors gave preliminary approval to a measure that would boost water-wasting fines from $100 to $100 for each offense. The increase would also bring the county…

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BART riders warned of possible measles exposure

Get vaccinated, Bay Area. Contra Costa County public health officials announced that BART riders commuting to San Francisco may have been exposed to the measles, after a passenger who traveled from Feb. 4-6 tested positive for the virus over the weekend. The unnamed infected rider traveled between Lafayette and San Francisco during the morning and…

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Water wasting fines are likely for some LA residents

As California’s weather gets warmer, fines for wasting water in unincorporated, standalone areas of Los Angeles County are expected to rise sharply. On Tuesday, Feb. 10 the Board of Supervisors gave preliminary approval to a measure that would boost water-wasting fines from $100 to $100 for each offense. The increase would also bring the county…

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BART riders warned of possible measles exposure

Get vaccinated, Bay Area. Contra Costa County public health officials announced that BART riders commuting to San Francisco may have been exposed to the measles, after a passenger who traveled from Feb. 4-6 tested positive for the virus over the weekend. The unnamed infected rider traveled between Lafayette and San Francisco during the morning and…

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Obama proposes $330 million budget for LA transit

The budget proposal unveiled by President Barack Obama to Congress on Monday earmarks more than $1 billion for California transportation and construction projects, including $330 million that Los Angeles city officials called crucial to extending an essential transportation line. Overall, Obama would spend more than $800 million on transit throughout the state: including $165 million…

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Infant contracts measles in Santa Monica

New case prompts daycare center closure A baby is one of the latest victims of the California measles outbreak, prompting the closure of a child-care center on the Santa Monica High School campus which regularly cares for 24 infants and toddlers. The infant is younger than 12 months and therefore hasn’t been immunized for the…

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Infant contracts measles in Santa Monica

New case prompts daycare center closure A baby is one of the latest victims of the California measles outbreak, prompting the closure of a child-care center on the Santa Monica High School campus which regularly cares for 24 infants and toddlers. The infant is younger than 12 months and therefore hasn’t been immunized for the…

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Frenchman linked to deadly Paris attacks charged

French authorities filed preliminary terrorism charges last week against a wanted Frenchman extradited from Bulgaria, who admitted his connection to the gunmen behind the terrorist massacres in Paris. Fritz-Joly Joachin, 29, was arrested Jan. 1 on an unrelated warrant while trying to cross from Bulgaria into Turkey. Police say that he was an associate of…

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Some doctors refuse to treat unvaccinated patients

Many parents hold firm to anti-vaccine beliefs With the state gripped by a measles outbreak, many California families are taking different approaches to protecting their kids from the severely contagious virus. Gary Monahan, a councilman for the city of Costa Mesa, remembers his son’s temperature spiking after getting the first dose of the MMR (measles,…

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