Personally, I’m grateful for Donald Sterling’s retro racism. One glance at this knuckle dragger shows how far most other people have evolved. It’s worth celebrating, particularly in California.
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Paul Masvidal has played in some of America’s most intense heavy metal bands for more than 20 years. Visit his Echo Park home, however, and it’s clear he’s finally found peace.
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Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling said Wednesday that she believes she is legally entitled to maintain ownership of the NBA team and will attempt to do so, even as the pro basketball league pushes to remove her husband from the team he has owned for 33 years.
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PHILADELPHIA — There’s a straight line that goes from David Drap to David Brown, but you cannot find it in most other cities.
Mr. Drap, 43, could be seen recently assembling pieces of plywood around a twin mattress under a highway overpass, trying to build a shelter amid detritus
MISSOULA, Mont. — Teenagers call it garage hopping. The goal was to sneak into an open garage, steal some beer or other items and slip away into the night. It was dumb and clearly illegal. It was not supposed to be deadly.
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The former lead disciplinarian for the school district where Corona del Mar High School students were conducting an NFL draft-style lottery for prom dates said students there personify Newport Beach’s entitlement culture.
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How can the higher education community better understand the influence
The Anti-Defamation League says it has no evidence that a writing assignment asking eighth-graders in Rialto to consider arguments that the Holocaust never happened was part of a “larger, insidious agenda,” and is treating it as a “misguided” attempt to meet critical thinking standards.
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