Agassi, investment team to help charter schools in U.S.

Tennis great and local charter-school developer Andre Agassi and Bobby Turner, chairman and chief executive of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors in Los Angeles, will announce today that they’re launching the Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, an investment group designed to help some of the nation’s 5,400 charter schools and their 1.7 million students find permanent school buildings.

Hospitals adapt to drug shortages

A scarcity of more than 200 medications, caused largely by fewer manufacturers wanting to produce less profitable generics, means hospitals must often rush to find substitute drugs so that patients can get the treatment they need.

Shaq announces retirement

Shaquille O’Neal had more than 28,000 points and almost 4 million Twitter followers. And on Wednesday he announced his retirement on Twitter. Along with a midafternoon tweet saying, “im retiring,” O’Neal included a link to a 16-second video of him saying, “We did it; 19 years, baby. Thank you very much. That’s why I’m telling you first: I’m about to retire. Love you. Talk to you soon.”

Octomom doc’s license revoked

LOS ANGELES — The state medical board has revoked the license of the fertility doctor who helped “Octomom” Nadya Suleman become the mother of 14 children through repeated in vitro treatments, according to a decision made public Wednesday.

FAA imposes fines for pointing lasers into cockpits

To deter people from pointing lasers into cockpits of flying aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration has begun imposing civil penalties and fines as high as $11,000 on anyone it catches.

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