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Five freshmen from Long Beach Poly High School were expected to be arraigned Monday on suspicion of misdemeanor sexual battery charges for allegedly inappropriately touching two female classmates.

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An investigation was under way Monday to track down whoever killed an 18-year-old man in a drive-by shooting in the Miracle Mile area of Los Angeles, police said.

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Zsa Zsa Gabor, who may or may not show up, will continue her Thanksgiving tradition on Monday of giving away turkeys to disadvantaged people at the Venice family center where she did community service for slapping a police officer 20 years ago.

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The City Council’s Public Safety Committee on Monday will discuss the expenses that the city incurred in connection with the the Michael Jackson memorial and whether any of it should be reimbursed by event organizer AEG.

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A round of meetings in Cairo and statements by senior officials have heightened anticipation that Israel and Hamas could swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for the Israeli solider Gilad Shalit.

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In one of the worst incidents of election-related violence in the Philippines in recent memory, more than 40 people were kidnapped by armed men, officials said.

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The British police and the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, shot by the police in July 2005 as Britain was in a state of high alert following attacks in London two weeks earlier, have agreed to a compensation deal.

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An activist who tried to help parents of children who died in last year’s Sichuan Province earthquake was sentenced for illegal possession of state secrets.

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Four United States troops have died fighting in Afghanistan in the last 24 hours, NATO said in a statement Monday.

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Closing arguments began Monday in Cambodia in the trial of the former Khmer Rouge prison chief who is accused of crimes against humanity.

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