McCain's running mate is Alaska's Sarah Palin

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Like John McCain, the Alaska governor has a reputation as a reformer and a foe of government spending. Photos | Discuss | Video | Palin: A-Z

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Painter eyes hip-hop's titans

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Portraits of Kanye West, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg and others represent a change for an architect of Soviet Realist Pop Art. Photos

Pellicano, Christensen guilty

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The private detective and attorney are convicted of conspiring to illegally wiretap the ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian.

4 killed in Eagle Rock crash

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A boy, 15, is the latest to die in an accident linked by police to street racing. Discuss

Grim search begins in San Marino

Bid to break state budget impasse fails

LAX workers OK 'cooling off' period

Execution of white supremacist upheld

Arrest made in Eagle Rock kidnap, rape

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New Orleans braces for Gustav

Incomes take steep dive in July

12 found decapitated in Yucatan peninsula

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