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  • Van Garderen wins Tour of California title

    Cadel Evans' teammate Tejay van Garderen won his first career stage-race title on Sunday when he held off Australian Michael Rogers to claim the Tour of California crown.Slovakia's Peter Sagan won the eighth and final 129.9km stage from San Francisco to Santa Rosa but 24-year-old American Van Garderen won the overall title in a total time of 29 hours and 43 minutes.Rogers was 1:47 ...

  • Man Accused of Killing Father Arrested

    A man accused of killing his father in Canyon Country was in jail Sunday after sheriff's deputies acting on a tip pulled him over and arrested him without incident, authorities ...

  • Middle-schoolers win prizes for essays on Mars exploration

    Several middle-schoolers from the South Bay are among the winners of an essay contest asking students to describe how robots and humans could work together to explore Mars. The students each took home cash prizes and joined legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin for a reception dinner last week. The two first-place winners of the contest sponsored by Raytheon and The American Institute of Aeronautics ...

  • Trinty High students research project wins award

    A seventh-grader from Holy Trinity School in San Pedro recently won the 2013 award for Academic Excellence from the Southern California Paleontological Society for his research project. With the help of science staff at Madrona Marsh in Torrance, Anthony Stenzel conducted a study he titled: "Does runoff water affect the aquatic invertebrates of the Madrona Marsh?" Specifically, he ...

  • ‘Trek’ Does $70.6M But Falls Short Of Studio Hopes

    The latest voyage of the starship Enterprise fell short of its predecessor, 2009′s ';Star Trek,'; which opened with $75.2 million. Since premiering Wednesday in huge-screen IMAX theaters and expanding Thursday to general cinemas, ';Into Darkness'; has pulled in $84.1 million, well below distributor Paramount’s initial forecast of $100 million. The film added $40 ...


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Movie Review

Big Trouble

Following the big-budget debacle of 1999's Wild Wild West, director Barry Sonnenfeld apparently felt the need to downsize for his next film, opting to helm an adaptation of syndicated humorist Dave Berry's novel Big Trouble, which finds the paths of a gaggle of oddball characters, from a miserable housewife, to a tree-dwelling hippie, to a pair of New Jersey hitmen, chaotically inte ... ...

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  • Navy Pilot Missing Since Vietnam War Buried At Arlington National Cemetery

    Forty-six years after being killed in action, the U.S. Navy honored Lt. Dennis Peterson of Huntington Park and his crew during an interment ceremony on May 2. Kirsten Peterson, the late lieutenant’s daughter, attended the burial along with her younger sister. ';I wanted to know more about what my father was all about,'; said Peterson, who was only two when her father went to ...

  • Cruz available for finale despite bone spurs in elbow

    ATLANTA -- Dodgers infielder Luis Cruz said he was available to play Sunday after being unavailable Saturday night because of a bone spur flare-up in his right elbow. Cruz said he has three spurs in his throwing elbow, and they occasionally pinch a nerve. "Since I was 11, I can't straighten my arm, and once in a while, this happens, and I just have to let it rest," said Cruz. ...

  • Jansens pitch selection with Gattis baffles Mattingly

    Email ATLANTA -- Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was still shaking his head in dismay Sunday over reliever Kenley Jansen's decision to challenge Braves pinch-hitter Evan Gattis, who slugged a two-run homer Saturday night on an inside cutter. The plan of attack against Gattis was not to throw inside, but that's what Jansen did in an eight-pitch at-bat that turned the game around and was ...

  • Gordons baserunning gaffe frustrates Mattingly

    Email ATLANTA -- Dee Gordon heard about it from Don Mattingly Saturday night. He met with baserunning coach Davey Lopes in a meeting Sunday morning. He even heard about it from father and former All-Star closer Flash Gordon. "Don't steal third," Dee Gordon repeated, "unless you know you'll be safe. I felt it was 100 percent, but I got thrown out." Gordon was ...

  • Some Lipstick Lip Gloss Products Contain Lead

    Scientists were concerned that overexposure to the metals could lead to health problems in the long term, and asked government officials to take a closer look at regulations. Women who applied lipsticks several times each day were particularly at risk of ...

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