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November 7, 2008

At Thursday's Prop 8 protest | Photo by Malingering A fight that broke out between opponents and proponents of Prop 8, the November 4th ballot initiative that sought to ban gay marriage in California, ended with two people apparently being sent to the hospital. Leah Murphy of Westwood said she was walking with a group of ten friends at Thursday's protest outside the Mormon Temple on Santa Monica Blvd. when two women who were......

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October 1, 2008

Not cool. The LAPD is asking the public's help in identifying the man in the blue polo shirt who repeatedly punched a 16-year-old girl in the face at a McDonalds near Crenshaw and Florence in South LA back on on the morning of September 14. The man budged two girls in line prompting the teenage girl who was related to the other girls to confront the man. An argument erupted and when the girl cursed......

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September 11, 2008

Last year, Kanye West flipped out backstage at MTV's Video Music Awards and swore he'd never come back. Sunday night he was there and closed out the show, but this morning the books are open after West snapped, smashing a photographers camera at LAX Terminal 4. West was arrested just before 8 a.m. on charges of battery and vandalism and remains in custody at the airport, according to reports. TMZ has video here.......

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