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Lynwood, California is located in Los Angeles County. Zip codes in Lynwood, CA include 90262. The median home price in Lynwood is $245,000 which is roughly $198/per square foot. More Lynwood information.

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Friday | Lake Elsinore Valley News

Custom car maker leaves mark on Hollywoods history

Dean Jeffries, one of Hollywood's preeminent automotive sculptors and engineers, died Sunday, May 5, at his home.

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Tue May 14, 2013

Modern Healthcare

Four docs, HIE leader win AMDIS awards

Four physician informaticists and the leader of a health information exchange have been named winners of the 2013 annual awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics given by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, the organization for physician informaticists has announced.

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NBC Los Angeles

"You Were Robbed": NBC4 I-Team Exposes SoCal Jiffy Lube

Seven years after an NBC4 I-Team expose prompted Jiffy Lube to apologize for cheating customers and to promise "system wide changes," the I-Team has uncovered what insiders say are new tricks and tactics to get your money, some in apparent violation of the law.

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Mon May 13, 2013

Southwest Riverside News Network

Custom car maker leaves indelible mark on Hollywood history

It has been said flamboyant cars and movie stars were made for each other and Dean Jeffries was the man with the talent to combine the two for the big screen.

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Fri May 10, 2013

Whittier Daily News

Whittier council fine tunes proposed budget

Sidewalks, the graves of pioneers who were Whittier's founders and mobile apps were on the minds of City Council members at their budget meeting earlier this week.

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GPB.org

'Monkeemobile' Creator Dean Jeffries Dies

Dean Jeffries, the car customizer who created the "Monkeemobile" for The Monkees TV show, "Black Beauty" for The Green Hornet and who painted two famous words on actor James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder, died last weekend at his Hollywood home.

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Thu May 09, 2013

Times Record News

Teacher notes progress from iPad use

When chemistry teacher Lynwood Givens told a few friends this past August that the high school where he teaches would convert totally to Apple iPads for the 2012-13 school year, all were skeptical.

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Wed May 08, 2013

USA Today

Hey, hey, the creator of the Monkeemobile has died

Dean Jeffries, who created some of the most fun and wild custom cars of the last half century, has died.

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AutoWeek

Legend had hand in customizing Batmobile, Mantaraya

Dean Jeffries was perhaps most famous for the Mantaray, a bubble-topped creation built around a Maserati chassis and a Cobra engine.

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Tue May 07, 2013

Hemmings Auto Blogs

Customizing legend Dean Jeffries dies

The man who painted the first Cobra and built the Monkeemobile, customizing legend Dean Jeffries, has died at the age of 80.

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Thu May 02, 2013

Downey Patriot

Civic leader Mary Lou Schmidt dies

Mary Lou Schmidt, a longtime Downey community icon and leader, passed away on April 24, at the age of 76.

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Tue Apr 23, 2013

The Press-Enterprise

Moreno Valley: High school places at regional folklorico competition

The Moreno Valley High School Ballet Folklorico recently won first and second place at the Southern California Regional USA National Folklorico Competition in Lynwood.

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Mon Apr 22, 2013

AmericanBankingNews.com

Superior Grocers Partners with the Los Angeles County Department of...

Superior Grocers, one of the largest independent supermarket chains in Southern California, is partnering with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services to promote healthy living and connect the community with CalFresh and nutrition education resources and programs by sponsoring the CalFresh Awareness Month Kick Off Event.

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Press-Telegram

Compton-to-Lynwood pursuit of DUI suspect ends when driver reportedly tries to ram police car

Sheriff's deputies pursued a suspected drunk driver from Compton into Lynwood, where he tried to ram their cruiser with his Ford Mustang, authorities said today.

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Sun Apr 21, 2013

Star Tribune

Weird Al still happy to be weird after all these years

If you took a notion to listen to Weird Al Yankovic's music chronologically, you'd have a pretty good history of pop culture.

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