WILMINGTON, Del. — The chief financial officer for the Los Angeles Dodgers says the organization made no payments or loans to team owner Frank McCourt in the two years before the club’s bankruptcy filing. Peter Wilhelm also said Wednesday that ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge has denied a request by a Dodger Stadium souvenir vendor to force the Los Angeles Dodgers to decide quickly whether the team will maintain its contract. Facility Merchandising Inc. argued that before it ...

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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. regulator of credit unions is suing Goldman Sachs & Co. for more than $491 million in damages over losses incurred by five failed wholesale credit unions that bought mortgage-backed securities from the investment bank. The ...

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LOS ANGELES — People have been calling Leslie Bale about opossums since 1982 when she started on the graveyard shift as a 911 dispatcher for the Irvine Police Department. The calls came from homeowners or security guards who thought they ...

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LOS ANGELES — The NAACP plans a big push to increase minority turnout in the 2012 elections, hoping to gain political influence and turn back what the civil rights group says are efforts in various states to deny minorities the ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — The Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball squared off in a Delaware bankruptcy court Wednesday as the team sought court approval of a $150 million financing arrangement that MLB is challenging with a financing offer of ...

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BIG SUR, Calif. — The road to Big Sur is a narrow, winding one, with the Pacific Ocean on one side, spread out like blue glass, and a mountainside of redwood trees on the other. The area spans 90 miles ...

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LOS ANGELES — Harry Potter has conjured up a tidy sum from the first overseas debuts of his final film. Distributor Warner Bros. says “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” took in $43.6 million in 26 countries outside ...

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LOS ANGELES — You and your dog are headed to the beach — for a day, a few days at a pet-friendly resort or a week at a friend’s beachfront home. What can you expect besides hot sand and salty ...

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LOS ANGELES — News Corp. has sold struggling social networking site MySpace for $35 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal values MySpace at a fraction of what News Corp. paid for the site six years ...

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