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With the transition to digital television coming up Feb. 17, many residents will be trading in their old TV sets for new ones. But before you think about tossing the old one in the trash, the state wants you to think about where it is going. According to the California Integrated Waste Management Board, every Californian generates approximately six pounds each of trash per day, which end up at landfills. 

Question: When does bad news become good news? Answer: When the bad news isn't as bad as some thought it might be.  

The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said. 

LOS ANGELES - A woman who performed unlicensed abortions on 16 women, sometimes without anesthesia, has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison.  

WHITTIER - About a dozen news vans and interested lookiloos kept vigil Friday in the neighborhood of the Whittier woman who gave birth to octuplets earlier this week.| With Gallery 

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For months, state officials have warned that California would not be able to pay its bills if lawmakers did not resolve the state's budget crisis by February 1.| With Gallery 

Police are investigating a surge of kidnappings and attempted kidnappings that have been occurring throughout the region, authorities said. 

MONTEBELLO - A technicality led a judge Friday to dismiss a referendum that would have given Montebello voters the chance to revoke a controversial Athens Service trash-hauling contract. 

BASSETT - A lifelong Whittier resident who was injured in a motorcycle crash Thursday died from his injuries at a hospital shortly after the incident, friends and officials said. 

Whittier-area Reps. Gary Miller and Grace Napolitano have received key assignments in this year's Congress. 

IT'S a short list, that of local professional sports teams that actually started their runs in L.A.  

LA MIRADA - The La Mirada High boys soccer team continued to struggle offensively on Friday as visiting Bellflower posted a 2-0 shutout in a Suburban League matchup.