The vinyl revival wasn't enough to keep one of its earliest champions afloat: Insound, the 16-year-old New York-based online music retailer, has announced that it will shutter by the end of March.
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Angels Manager Mike Scioscia was pleased with Garrett Richards' three-inning outing in an intrasquad game Wednesday. But he still anticipates the right-hander won't be ready to break camp with the team in two weeks.
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"The Divergent Series: Insurgent" arrives as the second installment in the dystopic sci-fi franchise about teenage rebels tearing down a society organized into rigid factions based on personality type.
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A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of setting three fires at or near Redlands High School and burglarizing a classroom and a neighboring church.
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In a move that surprised no one, FIFA's executive committee voted Thursday to move games of the 2022 Qatar World Cup from summer to winter to avoid July temperatures that average about 106 degrees in the Middle Eastern country.
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A preliminary federal report on the Oxnard train derailment confirms details on how a truck became lodged on the tracks just moments before last month's fatal crash.
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A woman who reportedly burned a copy of the Koran inside a riverside shrine in the Afghan capital was surrounded by an angry crowd, set ablaze and dumped into the chilly waters Thursday evening in a startling act of mob violence.
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About 200 people were evacuated Thursday morning at Chapman University in Orange after a suspicious package was found near a classroom building, officials said.
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Business and labor groups released warring studies Thursday on how boosting the citywide minimum wage to $13.25 or $15.25 an hour would affect the Los Angeles economy.
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With a deadline only days away, negotiators seeking a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program continue to debate the most important issues and haven’t begun circulating a draft agreement, a senior State Department official said Thursday.
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The Dallas Cowboys surely anticipated they'd come under fire for signing defensive end Greg Hardy, who is facing a potential suspension for violating the NFL's domestic violence policy.
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The body of a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who went missing more than a year ago was found in a New Jersey river on Wednesday night, prosecutors said.
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The capital murder trial in the Boston Marathon bombing is moving so quickly that a verdict against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could come as soon as the next two weeks.
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The capital murder trial in the Boston Marathon bombing is moving so quickly that a verdict against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could come as soon as the next two weeks.
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Police forces are constantly looking at new technology and new methods for catching criminals: DNA, drones, flying helicopters over high-crime areas to discourage the bad guys from carrying out their dastardly deeds. Could there be a new means of nailing suspects: watching TV?
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The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Transportation Security Administration on Thursday, seeking information on a controversial passenger screening program.
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An inexpensive art print from IKEA managed to fool visitors to a museum in the Netherlands in an online video, created by a Dutch production company, that has since gone viral.
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As a group, Hispanics are less likely than other Americans to access libraries, Pew finds. But those who do are the most enthusiastic users of any demographic.
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If it wasn’t for all the tea in China -- well, a ton of money anyway -- UCLA would have real problems when it faced Southern Methodist in the first round of the NCAA tournament Thursday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to walk back controversial remarks he made in the closing days of his reelection campaign, turning to two U.S. television networks to rebut charges of racism and insist he still backs a negotiated peace that would include a Palestinian state.
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New Tesla vehicles will soon be able to steer themselves, park themselves and brake in an emergency, Tesla Motors Chief Executive Elon Musk said.
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Fighting raged Thursday in the southern port city of Aden between supporters and opponents of President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, shutting down the international airport and leaving more than a dozen people dead, according to officials and witnesses.
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Stop me if you've heard this one before: The NBA's Eastern Conference is so bad that college basketball's Kentucky Wildcats could make the playoffs.
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