It’s one of the eternal questions: What do bunnies, chocolate and colored eggs have to do with Jesus rising from the grave? Finally, someone had the courage to reveal the story of Jeshua Cottontail, who was sent from heaven to die for the s…
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Bike To Venice Beach From Echo Park
Story courtesy of City’s Best.By Katie BainFor cyclists, Los Angeles is still the wild west. Our city is dominated by cars, and if a cyclist ventures out without a proper route prepared, the chances of ending up frantically peddling down a b…
Randy Hopper, Wisconsin Recall Target, Directs Constituents To Phone Sex Line
It’s an old story. Embattled politician seeks new ways to connect with disaffected voters. He establishes some phone lines, so constituents can connect directly with his office. Voters use the phone number and are connected to people read…
Foster Care’s Web Of Policies, Problems And Promise Keeps Kids In Waiting
In the first part of this two-part series highlighting the hardships that half a million foster children face each year, Enrique Montiel shared his story. As a foster care alumnus, he now works as a social worker within the system that took …
420 History: The Story Behind April 20 Becoming ‘Weed Day’
This piece was first published two years ago on 4/20.Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist, routinely plays with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, now touring as The Dead. He’s just finished a Dead show in Washington, D…
Greg Mortenson’s Stories From ‘Three Cups Of Tea’ Called Into Question By ’60 Minutes’ (VIDEO)
After telling his life story, Greg Mortenson sold millions of books and raised tens of millions of dollars for his charity.After “60 Minutes” aired on Sunday night, some observers may find the whole thing too good to be true.”It’s a beautifu…
John Zickefoose Learned To Read At 35, Now Shares His Literacy Struggle With Kids
When John Zickefoose was in school, he had a secret: he didn’t know how to read. Years later, when his young son busted him for not knowing words in the children’s books they would read together, Zickefoose decided it was time to learn. He e…
Best Hangover Cures In Los Angeles
Story courtesy of City’s Best. By Megan MontalvoEver find yourself burning the candlestick at both ends? Managing the perfect balance between your professional and personal life is no easy task (um, like going out on a Thursday), but thanks …
Medical Examiners: A Dysfunctional System
Watch FRONTLINE’s documentary produced in conjunction with this story tonight. (Check local listings.) And listen to NPR’s All Things Considered for more on this story. (Check local listings.)Read More…
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Howard Kurtz Makes Big Correction To Darrell Issa Story
The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz added a whopper of a correction on Wednesday to a story he’d written nearly two months earlier, in late November. The correction? The man quoted throughout the piece wasn’t its purported subject, Congressman Da…
Bethany Bibb’s Story: Community Rallies Together To Help Teen In Need Of Lung Transplant
Most three-year-olds are concerned with ABCs, cookies and cartoons.For Bethany Bibb, it was the year she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Now 16 years old, Bibb needs a double lung transplant, according to WSAZ News. The surgery will cost…
Air Force Reportedly Blocks Sites Posting WikiLeaks
This story is being updated. The U.S. Air Force is blocking sites in possession of the WikiLeaks cables, Reuters is reporting. At least 25 sites have been blocked so far in what some are calling an “unheard of” move. Reports the Wall Street …
Los Angeles Events: Animation Film Fest, A Christmas Story And Mozzarella Mondays
Get out of the house this evening to go to the Taylor De Cordoba gallery for a night of pickles, preserves and sibling pathology. For a mozzarella-themed dinner, head to Jar for Mozzarella Mondays. And to settle in to the Christmas spirit, i…
WikiLeaks Week In Review: Cablegate Highlights (PHOTOS)
It was, without question, the story the defined the first week of December 2010: last Sunday, online whistleblower WikiLeaks began an unprecedented release of 250,000 secret State Department documents, including cables related to Iran and it…
Black Friday Shopping While Pregnant
You might have already had your turkey and are sitting down planning your Black Friday shopping for tomorrow. I thought I’d throw out there that you should probably be careful. Where I live, there is always a story in the news about how people st…
Whitman Housekeeper Scandal: Union helped Nicky Diaz Santillan Reveal Her Story
SAN FRANCISCO — A newspaper says a powerful union helped the illegal immigrant former housekeeper of billionaire California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman make the story public.The San Francisco Chronicle, citing anonymous people,…
Early Miscarriage – Chemical Pregnancy
Chemical pregnancies are hard to track. They happen early and maybe often, depending on which source you read. Many women think they’ve just had a late period. Though, if you’re looking you can find them, like the mother who shares her story of a c…
Jerry Brown Faces Challenges In Keeping Education Promises
This story comes courtesy of California Watch.By Louis FreedbergRead More…
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Kamla Harris-Steve Cooley Race Undecided: 2 Million Uncounted Ballots
This story comes courtesy of California Watch.By Ryan GabrielsonNearly two million ballots remain uncounted at county offices across California, a horde of mail-in and provisional votes that will decide who becomes the next state attorney ge…
Birth Stories
Your birth story is an essential part of who you are, no matter what the story entails. My kids love to hear the story of their birth, the good, the bad and the ultimate joy. It’s a birthday tradition to share that story again on their birthday……
The Real Story Of The Midterm Elections: Underemployment
One in six Americans is part of U6 unemployment, an aggregate that includes people without work, and those with too little work. In this climate, it’s tough passing laws whose main selling point are some benefits that will kick in around 201…
Lilah’s Birth
We have a tradition in our family to always tell the birth story to you on your birthday. This tradition actually started by my mom always sharing the story of grandma not letting her sit on her new couch for fear my mother’s water would break. Then …
National Enquirer Founder’s Biography Written By His Son: ‘Classic American Immigrant Success Story’
Pope ultimately sank $1 million and 14 years into the book, amassing 50,000 pages of notes and thousands of photographs.The book is finally here, titled “The Deeds of My Fathers: How My Grandfather and Father Built New York and Created the T…
600,000 Local Government Salaries Posted Online
This story comes courtesy of California WatchBy Chase DavisState Controller John Chiang today made good on a promise to post an online database of salary and benefits for hundreds of thousands of local government employees around the state.R…
Baby Born on a Boat!
After writing about place names for babies last week, I got this fun birth story from our Sailing Guide on a baby named Bearing. His name was chosen because he was born at sea during a squall, four weeks early. His parents didn’t know where they we…
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