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- L.A. homicide rate close to low set in 1970
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- Cop's approachable style earns trust
- Canoga Park teacher doesn't give up
- Armenian businessman as mediator
- Canoga Park High teacher doesn't give up on at-risk kids
You'll have to forgive Canoga Park High School teacher Caryn Cornell Michaels if she doesn't give up on kids others might not give a second glance - let alone a second chance. - Cop's approachable style helps earn communties' trust
With a boyish face and a dimpled smile, Los Angeles police officer Cesar Corona doesn't look the part of a chiseled cop. He smiles easily and often jokes with suspects - even as he places them in handcuffs. - Armenian businessman acts as mediator for community
When a trio of older Armenian men was robbed last month at a Tujunga park, they didn't go to the police. They went to Jerry Hovsepian. - Families find tradition in holiday flicks
A holiday is all about tradition, whether it's eating homemade fruitcake, spinning a dreidel - or plopping down in front of the TV to watch a favorite Christmas flick. - Hollywood prop vendors sell off pieces of Tinseltown
A handful of North Hollywood-based prop rental companies put Tinseltown memorabilia on sale to the public Saturday for the first time, in an effort to stave off the effects of the seven-week-old writers strike. - West Hills pair celebrates a wonderful 70 years
On their 70th wedding anniversary this Christmas Eve, Darrell and Virginia Huston will gather their five children, 11 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren around the Christmas tree in their West Hills home and turn the clock back to 1937. - Engineer's heart in job at Palmdale cemetery
PALMDALE - Barry Munz has both a personal and professional connection to the 121-year-old Palmdale Cemetery that the city is restoring after years of neglect. - Laci Peterson's mother says time unable to heal her wounds
MODESTO - Since her daughter became one of America's best-known murder victims five years ago, Sharon Rocha has seen her son-in-law sentenced to death, lobbied for a fetal protection law signed by President Bush, written a best-seller and donated some - Hal Holbrook getting `Into the Wild' recognition
Hal Holbrook already has four Emmys, a Tony Award and countless other acting honors, but the buzz is that he has an excellent chance of being nominated for an Academy Award for the first time for his performance in "Into the Wild. - Frank Capra Jr., `Wonderful Life' director's son, dead at 73
RALEIGH, N.C. - Frank Capra Jr., a producer who helped build a major television and movie studio and whose father directed the Christmas classic "It's A Wonderful Life," has died. - Alan Wagner, CBS executive who oversaw TV hits, dies at 76
Alan Wagner, a former CBS programming executive who became the first president of the Disney Channel, died on Tuesday in Manhattan, where he lived. - Killer snowstorm hits Plains, causes crashes
AMARILLO, Texas - A blinding snowstorm blew across the Plains on Saturday, causing at least two deaths and dozens of injuries in numerous multicar pileups and forcing authorities to close portions of several major highways. - Arizona pushes illegals to leave
PHOENIX - Illegal immigrants in Arizona, frustrated with a flagging economy and tough new legislation cracking down on their employers, are returning to their home countries or trying their luck in other states. - Blair converts to Catholicism
LONDON - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has left the Church of England and converted to Catholicism, the faith of his wife and children. - Hoover's sought habeas corpus suspension
A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the FBI, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans that he suspected of disloyalty. - Families decorate cemeteries in growing U.S. custom
CULVER CITY - Around the country, this is the season when cemeteries become homes for many families' second Christmas tree as devotion meets tinsel, "Let It Snow" garden ornaments and the occasional Santa swizzle stick. - Candle sales boom on prayers
Hispanics have long lighted them for loved ones and for luck. - As home prices drop, counties adjust tax rates
Homeowners across the nation are looking to county governments to reassess the values of their homes in the face of flattening and falling prices that have befallen scores of markets from coast to coast. - Families separated by war reunited through technology during holidays
CAMP PENDLETON - Wendy Derkits stood in front of the camera to deliver a holiday message thousands of miles away. - Turkey hits Kurd rebels in north Iraq
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in the third confirmed cross-border offensive by Turkish forces in less than a week, the military said. - Elite colleges offer diplomas without debt
When it comes to paying for college, cash-strapped families have had a few good tidings of late. - Exiled Louisiana chefs spread Gulf Coast cuisine
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. - It's midmorning at Bon Appetit, and the beignets are long gone. Behind a Plexiglas wall, a cook is chopping vegetables for lunch. - Santa crucified to protest commercialism
BREMERTON, Wash. - Art Conrad has an issue with the commercialism of Christmas, and his protest has gone way beyond just shunning the malls or turning off his television. - DNA testing conducted to positively ID mummy
CAIRO, Egypt - Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum basement are still analyzing DNA from the bald, 3,500-year-old corpse to try to back up the claim aired on TV. - We'll always have the facade
VAN NUYS - When a plane containing Nazi Maj. Heinrick Strasser rumbled into the airport in "Casablanca," it flew past a large hangar looming along the runway. To the horror of aviation buffs this week, that hangar - the first building at what is now Van Nuys Airport - was being torn down. - Shoppers can save the day at 11th hour
The obvious places to get last-minute gifts for everyone still on your list are so old hat. But to find presents that don't look like you just threw something together, visit these three stores in the San Fernando Valley area for versatile gifts that cost about $30. - Family to fight insurance company after daughter denied transplant dies
The day after the death of his leukemia-stricken daughter, Krikor Sarkisyan accused his health insurer of taking her life by twice denying her a liver transplant. - Champion of 'Hope' is moving on
PANORAMA CITY - Maritza de Artan remembers the first day she stepped into the shabby two-bedroom apartment that housed Casa Esperanza. - New Santa Clarita mayor expects a busy year ahead
SANTA CLARITA - Bob Kellar sees a busy and bright new year for the city of Santa Clarita. - Arnold's budget proposal may lead to drastic spending cuts
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday said the budget proposal he will r
