The City Council approved a two year contract for a community alerting and emergency notification system, sometmes known as Reverse 911. This community alerting and emergency notification system will send out automated messages on behalf of the City to alert residents.

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LifeLock provides a proactive identity theft service, specializing in the prevention of identity theft rather than the reporting of it. LifeLock was founded in 2005 and is already considered the industry leader. Lock down your private information.

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By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood, California (January 11, 2009) Worth magazine has selected Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute as one of the United States’ top 25 hospitals for cardiac bypass surgery. The list, compiled for the magazine by healthcare research firm Castle Connolly, appears in the December/January issue. Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute is one of only three hospitals on the West Coast included on the list.

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THINGS YOUR BURGLAR WON’T TELL YOU:
1. Of course I look familiar. I was here just last week cleaning your carpets, painting your shutters, or delivering your new refrigerator.
2. Hey, thanks for letting me use the bathroom when I was working in your yard last week. While I was in there, I unlatched the back window [...]

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3 water mains broke in the early hours of the morning Tuesday and a fourth broke late in the evening causing flooding, mud flows, street closures and sinkholes. This comes on the heels of 2 breaks on Monday and 4 over the weekend.

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This free guide shows you where to turn and whom to contact if you have a problem with a product or service.

The statement “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you” is considered one of the great lies of our time.

But if you’ve [...]

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American health officials on Sunday declared a public health
emergency over increasing cases of swine flu, saying that
they had confirmed 20 cases of the disease in the United
States and expected to see more as investigators fan out to
track down the path of the outbreak.
Although officials said that most of the cases [...]

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Apply for your travel card today made available by the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. Visit www.GetYouHome.gov to learn how. The June deadline is fast approaching. Enjoy peace of mind knowing you have approved docs to reenter the U.S. from land, air or sea from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean with [...]

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