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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – A small plane has crashed at Camp Pendleton, leaving two men seriously injured and another with moderate injuries. Marine Corps spokesman Lt. Riley Whaling says the crash occurred shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday near a freeway off-ramp. Witnesses told officials that the plane appeared to develop …

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles school board has approved a budget plan that calls for more than 5,000 job cuts. District Superintendent Ramon Cortines presented the board with various proposals Tuesday to deal with a projected budget deficit of $1.2 billion for the next two school years. Projected layoffs …

PERUGIA, Italy – Amanda Knox’s lawyer argued Tuesday there wasn’t sufficient evidence to convict the U.S. exchange student in the 2007 slaying of her British roommate, saying Knox had been swept up by a “tsunami” of events that led to her arrest. In his closing arguments in the year-old trial, …