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SoCal Connected
November 17, 2010
You expect professional football players to have their fair share of concussions, but girls playing high school basketball? Correspondent Brian Rooney looks at what's behind the rise in concussions among teenage girl basketball players and why it's concerning. We'll meet an 84-year-old free-throw shooter, who can hang with Kobe and LeBron at the foul line. And L.A. Times columnist David Lazarus will introduce us to a local program that trains at-risk and troubled teenagers for high-tech, well-paying jobs in the film industry.
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A man's search for his missing wife who suffers from early onset Alzheimers reveals gaps in the system meant to locate and care for the mentally impaired in California. "SoCal Connected" documents the journey to answer, where's Nancy?

27:15
Public street disrepair is costing Los Angeles millions in costly personal injury claims.

26:59
They’re tiny, weaponized, and carry a potentially deadly payload. They’re called “Assassin Bugs” and they can be as common as the backyard mosquito or as exotic as the so-called “kissing bug"--and they're here in Southern California, spreading some of the

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SoCal Connected's Deepa Dernandes questions Santa Barbara landlord Dario Pini.

24:30
Examine L.A.'s unregulated short-term housing market and an indoor marijuana facility employing veterans.

26:59
A look at the spike in the number of employers retaliating against undocumented workers.

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As new developments pop up all over L.A., many are asking, 'Who approved that?'