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  • Leopold Konig wins Tour of California stage seven – video

    Leopold Konig of the Czech Republic wins the seventh stage of the Amgen Tour of California on Saturday, with American Tejay van Garderen finishing third to retain the overall lead. The route covered 91.4 miles and finished with an 11.5-mile ascent to Mount ...

  • Vandals Flood Main Chapel Other Rooms Of Palmdale Church

    The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says the Horizon Community Church in the 1800 block of East Avenue R was the site of a break-in about 10 a.m. Saturday. Authorities believe the suspects made their way through a glass window. Once inside, deputies say the vandals trashed several offices and rooms and broke into a safe stored on the grounds. Authorities say nothing of major value ...

  • Wind Advisory In Effect For Mountains High Desert Of LA County

    SANTA CLARITA (CBSLA.com) -- The National Weather Service Sunday issued a wind advisory through the morning for the mountains and high desert of Los Angeles ...

  • Russian film director Alexei Balabanov dies at 54

    Alexei Balabanov, a prominent Russian film director in the 1990s and 2000s, has died in a village near St. Petersburg, a colleague said. He was 54. No information about the cause of his death was released, The Hollywood Reporter said. Balabanov made his first film, "Happy Days," in 1991. His breakthrough film, the 1997 crime drama "Brother," won the main prize at ...

  • NASA Google To Open Joint Quantum Supercomputing Facility In California

    Image Credit: Photograph of a chip constructed by D-Wave Systems Inc., designed to operate as a 128-qubit superconducting adiabatic quantum optimization processor, mounted in a sample holder. ...


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Superman Returns

In the first chapter of his book The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium, critic/film theorist Gilberto Perez offers a passing criticism of the great American film critic James Agee, who he describes as a film critic who mainly yearned for past glories. This crit ... ...

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  • Musical Instruments Stolen from Church

    Someone broke into an Ontario church and stole $10,000 worth of musical instruments. The church's pastor bought new instruments using credit cards for services on Sunday, May 19, ...

  • Best Places To See Jacarandas In Bloom In Los Angeles

    , or blue jacarandas in full flower. Other cities have them, too: Bangalore, Adelaide, Mexico City, Zimbabwe, Buenos Aires. But only in California do jacarandas bloom twice and with such intoxicating luminescence. The California poppy had a terrible year this year. The state flower barely made an appearance in the deserts outside L.A. The week of the California Poppy Festival in Lancaster last ...

  • Braves Beat Dodgers 3-1

    Dee Gordon #9 of the Los Angeles Dodgers takes a throw to force out Chris Johnson #23 of the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field on May 18, 2013 in Atlanta, ...

  • After Smashing Windows In 8 Patrol Cars Suspect Fatally Shot

    INGLEWOOD (CBSLA.com) -- Inglewood Police shot and killed a man Saturday evening they said was on a rampage in a police parking lot. Around 6 p.m. they said the man started smashing the windows of eight squad cars with a long, sword-like weapon. The blade was ';18 inches or more,'; said Lt. Mark ...

  • Konig Wins 7th Stage Van Garderen Retains Tour Of California Lead

    DANVILLE (CBS/AP) -- Leopold Konig of the Czech Republic won the seventh stage of the Tour of California in a mountaintop finish Saturday, and American Tejay van Garderen finished third to keep the overall lead for the third straight day. Konig, riding for the German team NetApp-Endura team, quickly moved ahead of Janier Acevedo of Colombia with about 400 yards left and completed the 91.4-mile ...

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