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PHOTOS: High Western Winds Cause Damage

Posted 12.01.2011

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High winds flipped over trees and trucks and knocked out power to more than 300,000 California customers before moving inland Thursday, closing some s...

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Guatemala Massacre Suspect Deported After Years Of Living In CA

AP | AMY TAXIN and SONIA PEREZ D. | Posted 09.11.2011

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GUATEMALA CITY — A former member of an elite Guatemalan military force suspected of carrying out a 1982 massacre was extradited from the United ...

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California Mayor Was Set To Receive $500,000 'Finders Fee' Upon Sale Of Public Buildings

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The mayor of Santa Ana would receive a $500,000 "finder's fee" if the controversial sale of 24 state buildings goes through, according to interviews a...

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McLaren's All-New 2012 MP4-12C Introduced in Beverly Hills

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

After over one million miles of prototype testing, the first new road car from McLaren since 1993 is ready.

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Jeanne Mundango Manunga Jailed For Sending Text Threats -- To Herself

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — An Orange County woman was sentenced to a year in jail for sending hundreds of threatening text messages – to herself....

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Rep. Lambastes Santa Ana College's Illegal Immigrant Scholarship

Posted 05.25.2011

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Should there be a scholarship honoring illegal immigration? That's the question being raised at Santa Ana College in California. U.S. News and World...

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James Halstead Gets 10 Years For Investment Scam, Ordered To Repay Millions

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Southern California insurance salesman has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in an invest...

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Sheriff: Deputy Arrived Just Before Murder-Suicide

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — A sheriff's deputy arrived at a Southern California home moments before a door was slammed shut and gunshots were fired in a...

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Montana Jail Deal Delayed Over Controversy With Mysterious Company

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARDIN, Mont. — Plans for a California company to take over this city's empty jail were put on hold Monday, following last week's revelations th...

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American Police Force And Hardin: Security Firm Gets Control Of Empty Montana Jail

TPMMuckraker | Justin Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011

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A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything ...

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FTC, 18 states act to stop sham loan consultants

AP | JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Prosecutors nationwide filed 189 legal actions Wednesday against loan modification consultants accused of bilking homeowners who are desperate to make their mortgage payments more affordable.

The lawsuits and cease-and-desist orders announced by Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz and California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown were part of a nationwide sweep of alleged sham consultants by the federal agency and officials in 18 states.

Leibowitz used the announcement to put scam artists on notice and urged homeowners to protect themselves from being exploited.

He said fraudulent loan modification consultants are "full of hollow promises designed to fatten the pockets of criminals and con men."

The lawsuits filed by the FTC included allegations that Aliso Viejo-based Lucas Law Center persuaded distressed borrowers to stop paying their mortgages in order to pay the firm's fees of up to $3,995.

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