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Crass and talented teens win Slam Dance Audience Award for Bindlestiffs

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Black Sabbath to release new album and tour worldwide in 2012

First album in 33 years

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Rapper Heavy D dead at 44

Rapper died of “health-related” cause

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“Twilight” cast immortalized outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater

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Tougher state and federal air quality standards, combined with cleaner burning engines on new vehicles today, have cut air pollution from cars and trucks across California by more than 85 percent since the 1970s, with peak smog levels in the city of Los Angeles dropping some 70 percent. (Thinkstock)

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SMOG levels improving in Los Angeles

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Low natural gas prices, competition from China and other factors helped sink innovative American solar panel maker, Solyndra, despite its having received $535 million in government loan guarantees. But the Obama administration is not deterred and has renewed efforts to force utilities to derive significant percentages of their power from cleaner, greener sources. (Media credit/Zachary Graham via Flickr)

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Endearing time-travel comedy impresses at Sundance

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Reporting live from the Sundance Film Festival

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Criminals to heroes: California penal system trains inmates to be firefighters

Fire camps teach the incarcerated real life skills and gives them a new lease on life.

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Gordon Ramsay to open steakhouse in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — World-renowned chef, Gordon Ramsay, will be opening his first Las Vegas restaurant, Gordon Ramsay Steakhouse, in the Paris Las Vegas Resort in Spring 2012. The restaurant, which will be replacing Les Artistes Steakhouse, will add to Ramsay’s string of restaurants around the globe. Ramsay, who has hosted television, shows such as “Hells [...]

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Solyndra requests approval for $500,000 in bonuses despite bankruptcy filing

FREMONT, Calif. — After filing for bankruptcy on Sept. 6, the California solar panel manufacturer Solyndra LCC is now asking a Delaware judge to approve approximately $500,000 in employee bonuses. The Huffington Post reported the potential bonuses would be distributed to nine equipment engineers, six general business and finance employees, four facilities workers and two [...]

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