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Actor James Gandolfini dies in Italy at age 51

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- James Gandolfini's lumbering, brutish mob boss with the tortured psyche will endure as one of TV's indelible characters....

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Hundreds more allowed back home in Calif. wildfire

MARIPOSA, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of Northern California residents were allowed to return to their homes, as crews aided by lower temperatures and higher humidity extended their lines Wednesday night around a wildfire near a main route into Yosemite National Park, officials said....

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Woman stabbed, killed on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police in Los Angeles say they've arrested three panhandlers in the fatal stabbing of a young woman who was taking photographs on Hollywood's star-lined "Walk of Fame."...

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Panel restores some pay for lawmakers, governor

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers will get a pay raise of nearly $5,000 this year while the governor will see an increase of nearly $9,000 after a citizens' panel voted Wednesday to restore some of the cuts it made during the recession....

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Los Angeles Metro ends free train rides

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As the whir of the subway echoed throughout Union Station and crowds of passengers trickled in for their morning commute, Los Angeles' transit officials unveiled a new development to deter riders from evading fares: locked turnstiles that can only be accessed using a TAP card....

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Teen charged in Calif. couple's slayings saved dad

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) -- A 16-year-old Northern California boy once praised as a hero for saving his dad's life has been charged with stabbing a couple to death at their home, a newspaper reported....

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Woman convicted in LA train platform death

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A jury which convicted a homeless woman of second-degree murder in the death of a woman pushed off a Los Angeles train platform heard expert opinions Wednesday on whether the defendant was sane at the time of the crime....

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AP PHOTOS: Astrodome, JFK terminal endangered

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places....

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SF 'landlords from hell' plead guilty to felonies

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A couple that prosecutors dubbed the "landlords from hell" for going to scary lengths to drive tenants from a San Francisco apartment building - including cutting holes in one tenant's floor with a power saw while he was still inside - have pleaded guilty to several felonies....

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LA teacher pleads not guilty in wife killing

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Los Angeles elementary school teacher accused in the weekend stabbing of his estranged wife has pleaded not guilty to all charges....

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