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Digest: Maryland rules on claiming horses toughened
Horse racing Rules on claiming horses toughened The Maryland Racing Commission toughened its rules on claiming horses at its monthly meeting Wednesday, addressing an issue that some believe might have contributed to an early-year spike in racetrack...Tags: E.J. Biggers, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Memorial Stadium, Carolina Panthers, Mike Jones
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Another side of illegal immigration
Denise Panaligan, a UCLA sophomore, didn't tell her mother where she was headed Wednesday morning. She knew that if she told the truth, her mother would worry. Panaligan, in blue jeans and white T-shirt, boarded a bus and traveled to Pershing...
Tags: Immigration, Crime, Law and Justice, Philippines, Illegal Immigrants, Personal Data Collection
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Pacific defeats UC Irvine, 64-55, in Big West men's tournament
UC Irvine men's basketball team will not be making its first NCAA tournament appearance. This is not the year to finally fear the Anteater. Top-seeded Pacific jumped to an early lead Saturday night and never lost it on its way to a 64-55 win in the...
Tags: Big West Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, UC Irvine Anteaters, Scott Brooks, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Long Beach State grinds out win over Cal State Fullerton
Top-seeded Long Beach State versus injury-ravaged Cal State Fullerton went just as you might expect a game with that billing would go. Fullerton's Titans were tenacious enough in Thursday night's opening round of the Big West Conference tournament. They...
Tags: University of California, Davis, University of California, Santa Barbara, Big Ten Conference, Hawaii Warriors, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Does creationism have a place at a public school?
Los Angeles Unified School District biology teacher Tom Phillips is retiring this month, but on his way out, he's decided to go public with a pet peeve. Phillips believes the continued Christian fundamentalist effort to debunk evolution is undermining...
Tags: Christianity, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Teaching and Learning, Teachers, U.S. Supreme Court
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UCLA basketball's fresh start hits sour notes
It's nearly midnight on a rainy Wednesday, and Ben Howland is sitting in the only part of new Pauley Pavilion that is not spacious and sparkling. The coaches' locker room. That's right, in the only place in this basketball palace that Howland can...Tags: Tyler Honeycutt, Malcolm Lee, John Calipari, College Basketball, Basketball
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Corporations and execs need penalties that hurt
If you're concerned about corporate crime, 2012 looked like a pretty successful year for the good guys. The Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen paid $762 million in fines and penalties and pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to illegal marketing of...
Tags: Los Angeles Times Columnists, Crime, Law and Justice, Bank of America Corp., Financial Markets, U.S. Department of Justice
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Jessica Yu's 'Last Call at the Oasis' made her a water activist
If you want to say that Jessica Yu burst onto the film scene in 1993 with her short "Sour Death Balls," you'd be almost literally right. The film is almost 10 minutes of people trying to handle the disgusting confection. Yu's work wins accolades,...
Tags: Coal, Movies, Music Industry, Mark Twain, Conservation
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New wave of immigrants — a new target too?
It's official! A new study by the Pew Research Center proves the old trope true: Asians are the new Jews. All those essentially positive stereotypes you've heard about — the hard work and the Tiger Moms — have made Asian Americans the highest-...
Tags: Immigration, Sociology, Arts and Culture, Christopher Hitchens, University of California, Los Angeles
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Writing home: Brando Skyhorse
Bookshelves real and virtual are stocked with volumes about Los Angeles and Southern California written by people who parachute into a Westside guest house for a few weeks, hit the hot spots and high spots, then write with voice-of-God authority for...Tags: Fatty Arbuckle, Crime, Law and Justice, Rentals, National or Ethnic Minorities, Los Angeles
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