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Legendary AP Legal Reporter Retires Her Notebook

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Los Angeles-based reporter Linda Deutsch retired from the Associated Press last month, after 48 years on the job at the frontline of the nation's most high-profile trial dramas, including those of Charles Manson, Patty Hearst, Sirhan Sirhan, O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson. When she started out, it was a different era. She was the only woman at the L.A. bureau of the AP, there was no cable TV or Internet and there were no TV cameras in the courtrooms. Deutsch was known for always getting her story out first. How did she do it in the early days?

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