LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills remains on lockdown as of 5 pm PST tonight. El Camino went on lockdown at 2:30 pm this afternoon after a suspicious device was found near campus. Classes were promptly dismissed and all after-school activities were swiftly canceled.

Traffic around the campus is being impacted with neighboring streets closed Wednesday afternoon. The concern was prompted after a suspicious device was found in a nearby parked car.

The school’s website indicates “We at El Camino have always had high expectations of our students, expecting and receiving responsible behavior.” School officials have yet to comment to news about today’s lockdown.

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ST LOUIS (LALATE) – The St Louis Post Dispatch source who said that Matt Painter was heading to Mizzou was in error. The source for Post Dispatch reporter Bernie Miklasz had claimed early today that Painter had accepted for Mizzou. But shortly thereafter, Jeff Rabjohns of the Indianapolis Star reported that no such acceptance call was even made. “At this hour, Matt Painter has not called either Missouri or Purdue with a decision, sources confirmed.”

Bernie Miklasz later told readers he was sorry. “I take pride in my reporting and my cred[ibility], so if this has blown up on me, then all I can do is apologize profusely.” He added “And I know that isn’t good enough for many of you. But my embarrassment is profound”.

Painter erroneous reports started over the weekend, when another report, elsewhere, claimed that Painter had accepted for Mizzou. At that point, Painter had even been talking with the school. “At the end of the day, my heart is at Purdue, and this is a place where I want to win a national championship” said Painter in a statement to news today.

Painter’s new Purdue deal is through 2019.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – The photographer behind the Kappa Sigma USC rooftop scandal photos is now speaking out. A USC Kappa Sigma member and female from another Los Angeles school were captured in pictures atop a USC building last week. But while the pictures have become the biggest news story to hit Los Angeles college campuses this week, the photographer says he never released the pictures to the public.

In fact, the photographer tells news that, if he had the opportunity again, he would not have taken the pictures in the first place.

“There was a girl on our floor that, um, apparently she been on higher floors and her friends had told her about it” he explains to news this week. “So she came down [to our floor]. She knocked on our doors. We all ran across the hall.”

The photographer said that “there was 10-15 of us  [watching it live] … a little of shocked …we thought it was funny …”; but he pulled out his DSLR camera to document the pictures for other people on the floor that missed the couple.

The photographer, who has refused to be identified, took the nearly dozen pictures and put them on a private, password protected account on Photobucket.com “I put them on photobucket, it was meant for the people of our floor … I originally put them private.”

But by Saturday, the pictures were all over the internet, added to Twitter and Facebook accounts. “Somehow, someone from our floor shared the pictures with someone else. Those pictures got downloaded, put on a different website, and they were sent out to anyone without a password.”

Now the photographer feels guilt about taking the pictures. He tells ATVN that the couple “had [... some] right of privacy …they were in public .. but they still deserved some privacy. They were 18 … they were in public.”

The photographer says he didn’t share the pictures with anyone beyond his floor. “It was not my intention for the pictures to go viral…. I didn’t realize how someone that leaks to the internet it gets so explosive. I didn’t realized that at the time. I wouldn’t do it again. It was unbelievable. My roommates and I were shocked about it.”

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – MC Hammer’s ZAGGmate by ZAGG could be your next iPad carrying case. Hammer tells Oprah during Wednesday’s television interview that he is a “super geek”. Hammer also says that he wants Apple to carry his new invention. But is it Hammer time at Apple?

Hammer, Bo Derek, Pam Grier, and John Corbett join Wednesday’s Oprah Winfrey show. But the shocking revelation comes from Hammer.

Fans have long known about Hammer’s financial success and failures. But today he reveals that he has in recent years become a technology geek.

Hammer tells Winfrey that his fascination with technology started with his iPad. “The iPad changes everything,” he says. “It’s unbelievable.”

In fact, prior to his appearance with Oprah, Hammer visited another powerhouse – Apple – to pitch his ZAGGmate. “It wasn’t an invention of mine, but somebody came up with a case that if you drop it, the screen doesn’t break and then if you stand it up, it becomes a keyboard—a Blue Tooth wireless keyboard” said Hammer .”So when they showed it to me I said, ‘Well, Apple has to see this.’”

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Jessica Simpson has put her nuptials with Eric Johnson “on hold” because Johnson “may not be the perfect husband”, so claims In Touch Magazine this week. But is the report accurate? Absolutely not says Simpson’s rep to Eric Johnson.

As Jessica Simpson’s net worth keeps on rising and her annual sales top $1 billion, her name is continuing to sell magazines, including inaccurate reports about her and Johnson. Last December, news reports claimed that Simpson’s fashion empire (not her personally) will gross $750 million in sales this year, alone. But while Jessica sells shoes, accessories, swim suits, and even watches, she also helps sell incorrect tabloid reports as well.

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This week’s In Touch says Simpson has put her nuptials on hold because “Jessica was disappointed that he changed for her.” No so says Simpson’s rep to GossipCop. Just weeks earlier, Life and Style suggested Simpson was pregnant with a cover that read “I’m Having a Baby”. “Finally Baby for Jen!”, “Yes I Am Having a Baby” and “Who might the daddy be?” were among their headlines.

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