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Josh Shaw is the man who fell to earth. From a second- or third-story balcony, not in Palmdale, Calif., but near downtown Los Angeles , onto an unforgiving surface. From team captain for the University of Southern California (USC) football team to indefinitely suspended player . From hero to fabulist. At some point between last Saturday evening and Monday afternoon Shaw , a fifth-year senior and starting cornerback for the Trojans, found his way into the training room in the John McKay Center on USC’s campus. The Palmdale, Ca. native required treatment after suffering high-ankle sprains in both legs. And at some point before entering the McKay Center, Shaw concocted a lie – an elaborate and heroic tale– to explain how those injuries had been sustained. Shaw’s story, not unlike its author, eventually landed with a mighty thud. “I made up a story about this fall that was untrue,” Shaw said Wednesday in a statement released through his recently hired attorney , Donald Etra. “I was wro...

While summer typically sets a slow pace for most people, over the past two months frenetic local entrepreneurs kept pace with a famous national brand , Dunkin’ Donuts, in bringing new business concepts into reality across Pasadena at a surprising rate. A variety of hopeful and passionate business tastemakers are bringing the fruits of their labor to Pasadena in the coming weeks across a range of industries and services ranging from acupuncture, to gourmet chef take-out meals, to Instagram-famous-turned-brick-and- mortar clothing stores , all of whom thoughtfully selected this city as the perfect place to launch. “I immediately knew that the first place I wanted to make sure I locked down for a location was Pasadena … that decision was very strategic,” said Modern Acupuncture franchise owner and San Gabriel Valley native Yvette Beaulieu . Modern Acupuncture says it is the first acupuncture franchise in the nation and the new Pasadena location marks the inaugural of about 30 locat...

NEW YORK, NY — It's one of the oldest rivalries in American migration: New York vs. Los Angeles. For the better part of a century, residents of the nation's two largest metro areas have been defending their chosen kingdom and dismissing the other on an endless loop of judginess between kitty-corner coasts. Ew, the traffic! But the sunshine! But the subway! But the garbage! But the skyline! But the coastline! But the bustle! But the chill! In this tireless war of words, a clear winner has yet to emerge. But it's harder to argue against the numbers. Thousands of working professionals have relocated to Los Angeles County from New York City in the past year and a half, according to a series of monthly "workforce reports" released this spring and summer by the job- networking site LinkedIn (and spotted by LA Weekly). And it's not exactly a two-way street. Since early 2016, according to LinkedIn, around seven or eight out of every 10, 000 site users in LA report...