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Sex-Worker Shootout Started Over iPhones, Cops Say

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Iphone 4, Iphone, Prostitute Shootout, Motel Shootout, Prostitution, Video, Jasiel Salmeron, Shootout, Cesar Salmeron, Weapon of Choice, California Crime, Stockton, Crime News

Apparently owning a smart phone does not boost its user's intelligence. Two men who told police that prostitutes stole their iPhones allegedly star...

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Linda Ronstadt, the San Diego Chargers, Braceros and the Cortito

Maurice Jourdane | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Maurice Jourdane, Short-Handled Hoe, Alex Spanos, Stockton, Linda Ronstadt, Marty Glick, Hector De La Rosa, Braceros, Latino Voices News

The fan at a concert or football game and the farm worker stooped in the field, might doubt that there is a thread tracing Linda Ronstadt, the San Diego Chargers, Braceros and the tool used in the hot dusty fields.

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Stockton's Poor Mired In Violence After Police Cuts, Recession

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Crime, Police, Stockton California, Violence, Stockton Poverty, Breakdown, Stockton Police, Gang Violence, Stockton Crime, Poor, California Poverty, Stockton Police Department, Slidepollajax, Stockton, Crime News

STOCKTON, Calif. –- Last year, Pablo Cano put to rest 12 murder victims, the most he's handled in four decades as an undertaker in this troubled cit...

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The Great Unraveling: Yonkers, Stockton and Municipal Bankruptcy

Richard Brodsky | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Richard Ravitch, Yonkers, Michael Spano, Stockton, Yonkers City Budget, Municipal Debt, Municipal Debt Crisis, Austerity, Business News

The great national battle about the size of government and the level of taxation will be played out in the streets of small cities across America

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Three Alleged Mortgage Scammers Arrested In California

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Mortgages, Foreclosure Crisis, Video, Mortgage Modification, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosure, Mortgage Scams, Sigtarp, Stockton, Business News

Just one day after government authorities announced they would be bringing the hammer down on loan-modification scammers, three people have been arres...

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Mother Faces Assault Charges For Attacking Principal Over This Shirt

Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Principal Attacked, Video, Fillmore Elementary School, Stockton California, Race Relations, School Dress Codes, California Schools, Schools, Dress Codes, Stockton Schools, Stockton, School Dress Code, Pami Gibbs, Mom Punched School Principal, Education News

The mother of a Stockton, Calif. elementary school student is under arrest for physically attacking her son's school principal over a dress code viola...

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California Birthday Shooting: Teen Dead, 8 Wounded At Backyard Party

AP | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, California, Shooting, Birthday Party Shooting, Backyard Shooting, Stockton Shooting, 15-Year-Old Shot, Guns, Stockton, Crime News

STOCKTON, Calif. -- Police in Stockton, Calif., say a 15-year-old boy has died and eight people wounded in a shooting at a backyard birthday party. P...

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How A California Prison Became The Tear Gas Capital Of America

Luke Whyte | Posted 06.10.2011

Read More: Voices of Justice, Prison Reform, Stockton, California, Prison, Prisoners, Condition Orange, Deuel Vocational Institution, Prisoner Rights, Correctional Officer, Correctional Facility, Prison Overcrowding, Tear Gas, Impact News

"Gas 'em 'till they puke" became the unofficial officers' motto back then -- so much so that, "You can still see it written on license plate frames in the parking lot."

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Remembering Jerry Sloan: The NBA's Last One-Trick Pony

David Perez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sports, Basketball, Utah Jazz, Jerry Sloan Retires, Jerry Sloan, Espn, Nba, Kirilenko, Frank Layden, Malone, Red Auerbach, University of Illinois Champaign, Sloan Retires, Deron Williams, Stockton, Sports News

Sloan may have been a one-trick pony, but that pony ran longer and harder than everyone else. Must have been one hell of a ride.

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Chicago Moves From 3rd To 10th On Forbes's 'Most Miserable Cities' List

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: America's Most Miserable Cities, Miserable Cities, Illinois, Chicago Sales Tax, Forbes, Cleveland, Stockton, Chicago, Chicago News

According to Forbes, things are better. Its new list ranks Chicago as only the 10th most miserable city in the United States. "The Windy City flamed ...

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Stockton, California Is Foreclosureville, USA, Has One Of The Worst Foreclosure Rates In The United Sates

AP | EVELYN NIEVES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, Housing Crisis, Highest Foreclosure Rate, Foreclosures, California, California Housing Crisis, Stockton California, Foreclosureville, Foreclosures in California, Most Foreclosures in US, Stockton, Business News

STOCKTON, Calif. — Stockton hardly looks like the most miserable city in the country. But the statistics and stories over the last two years ma...

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