News Chicago » Los Angeles http://newschicago.net Business, Events and Entertainment Fri, 24 May 2013 01:21:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Publisher and author Andrew Breitbart dead in L.A. at 43 http://newschicago.net/publisher-and-author-andrew-breitbart-dead-in-l-a-at-43/ http://newschicago.net/publisher-and-author-andrew-breitbart-dead-in-l-a-at-43/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:33:20 +0000 admin http://newschicago.net/?p=1798 Rong Gong Lin II 8:55 a.m. CST, March 1, 2012
Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart passed away unexpectedly from natural causes early Thursday, his website reported.

Breitbart, 43, a star of the tea party movement, died shortly after midnight in Los Angeles, his website said.

The following statement was posted on Breitbart’s website today:

“With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce the passing of Andrew Breitbart.

“We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior.”

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]]> http://newschicago.net/publisher-and-author-andrew-breitbart-dead-in-l-a-at-43/feed/ 0 L.A. catching up to Chicago in sleaze http://newschicago.net/l-a-catching-up-to-chicago-in-sleaze/ http://newschicago.net/l-a-catching-up-to-chicago-in-sleaze/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:20:17 +0000 admin http://newschicago.net/?p=1769 Panning for gold in the local cesspool is always lucrative, but it’s been one fat nugget after another lately.

We’ve got Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa marketing himself for his next job before he finishes this one; City Atty. Carmen Trutanich insisting he’s not the liar he appears to be; auto painters at the DWP making $109,192 a year while the agency guns for a rate hike; and Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez under investigation for an alleged scandal involving tax breaks for clients represented by his friend.

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