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Manny Pacquiao (left) and Antonio Margarito face off at a news conference to announce their fight for the vacant WBC super welterweight championship at the Beverly Hills hotel in Beverly Hills, California August 31, 2010.

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Pep bumps off Pacquiao as boxing’s finest

A Mormon bishop was shot and killed in Visalia, California, on Sunday, police said.

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Mormon bishop shot dead in California

VISALIA, Calif. — A man shot and killed a Mormon bishop at a chapel in California and then was later shot dead by police Sunday afternoon, according to multiple reports.

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Mormon bishop fatally shot in California chapel; gunman killed

If you’ve been by the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Mission Dolores or Fort Point and noticed an intense woman with dark hair sketching furiously, it might have been Kim Novak. She’s been coming to San Francisco for decades, retracing the path of her most… San Francisco – Mission San Francisco de Asís – California Palace of the Legion of Honor – United States – California

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Kim Novak surfaces to retrace past in boxed set

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District continued to show improvements in the percentage of students who score at the proficient or advanced levels on the California Standards Tests (CST), according to the spring test results released by the California Department of Education.

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Santa Monica-Malibu schools see gains at proficient and advanced level of state standardized tests