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With cuts looming, some L.A. City Council members use off-budget funds to boost their salary accounts

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 10:38 AM EST (The L.A. Times)

Members of the Los Angeles City Council will renew their efforts to address the city's budget problems Tuesday as they consider a three-year plan to deal with the deficit.

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Red-Light Cameras Go

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 1:40 AM EST (Press Enterprise)

The Loma Linda City Council is poised on Tuesday night to end the city's red-light camera program, either immediately or by the end of the year. Moreno Valley shut down its red-light cameras last month. Redlands shuttered its red-light camera last fall.

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Obama's budget calls for reimbursement for cost of jailing undocumented immigrants

Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 11:50 AM EST (Press Enterprise)

California's share of $330 million proposed for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program would cover only a fraction of the state's expenses related to jailing undocumented immigrants.

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Investigators got warrant to search Lake Elsinore City Hall

Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 1:36 AM EST (Press Enterprise)

Lake Elsinore City Hall and a consultant involved in the campaign to recall a city councilman were among the six targets of search warrants obtained by district attorney's investigators, court records show.

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Fragile, pushed out and paying a price: State saves millions by relocating poorest patients

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 5:37 PM EST (The Seattle Times)

Jeri Ringseth had no business being in an adult family home.

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Investigators raid properties of people linked to recall of Lake Elsinore official

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 5:17 PM EST (Press Enterprise)

District attorney's investigators and federal immigration agents Thursday conducted surprise early-morning raids at properties owned by two opponents of a Lake Elsinore councilman facing recall.

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Pet owner killed by dogs after saving them from death

Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 7:33 PM EST (Reuters)

A Slovenian who saved his three dogs from being put down for attacking humans was himself mauled to death by them, police said Wednesday.

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All the president's men

Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 4:28 PM EST (MarketWatch.com)

Too many people have already lost their jobs, but there's a few more that should probably be seeking new employment. In the face of the growing debacle in the White House, it's becoming clear that some top advisors are not performing very well.

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Parents Tell of Children They Entrusted to Detained Americans

Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 3:09 PM EST (The New York Times)

Guerlaine Antoine pushed aside a tub full of laundry, wiped her soapy hands on her T-shirt and rushed barefoot to bring out photos of the 8-year-old boy she entrusted to 10 American Baptists.

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New law gives parents power to overhaul failing schools

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 2:45 PM EST (SB Sun)

The state teachers union calls it the "lynch-mob provision." School districts say it's unnecessary. But supporters say a new state law that allows a majority of parents to demand an overhaul of struggling public schools is long overdue.

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Firing of Wyo. officers who Tasered driver upheld

Seeded on Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:48 AM EST (Las Vegas Sun)

Officials in the small Wyoming town of Glenrock have upheld the firing of two police officers who chased and Tasered a 76-year-old man driving a tractor in a parade.

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Someday, every college football field will be solid red

Seeded on Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:28 AM EST (NBC Sports)

Former EWU standout Michael Roos, now playing for the Tennessee Titans, has pledged $500,000 toward the "Red Turf Project.'' The University hopes to have the field installed for the upcoming season. Field nicknames, anyone?

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CSU graduation initiative pushed at meeting

Seeded on Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:03 AM EST ()

An initiative to increase California State University graduation rates was presented this week at the system's two-day Board of Trustees meeting.

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Man torches car battling frost

Seeded on Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:35 PM EST (Reuters)

A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood.

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December home sales down nearly 17 percent

Seeded on Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:43 PM EST (Sun Telegram)

Sales of previously occupied homes took the largest monthly drop in more than 40 years in December.

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Ellie Light's Obama Letters

Seeded on Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:49 PM EST (Patterico)

Current totals: 68 publications in 31 states and the District of Columbia. 3 national publications and a Yahoo link. 2 foreign publications.

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Ellie Light revealed: I'm Barbara Brooks, a nurse, says Pro-Obama letter writer

Seeded on Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:44 PM EST (Cleve-Blog)

UPDATE: A woman claiming to be Barbara Brooks has now contacted The Plain Dealer and said she is not the letter writer; she claims her ex-husband is running a spoof. The newspaper is investigating; more details as they become available.

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County spent millions on welfare for illegal immigrants' American children

Seeded on Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:05 PM EST (Sun Telegram)

Nationwide, one in three immigrant-headed households uses at least one major welfare program, compared with 19 percent of citizen households, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that advocates immigration reduction.

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Trucking industry continues down tough road

Seeded on Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:57 PM EST (Press Enterprise)

"It was a dismal year, and it's still dismal," said Kim Cooper, vice president of C&K Transportation, a San Bernardino carrier. "It is picking up a bit, but it's still going to be a tough year. I don't think it's going to really get better until next year."

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Microsoft confirms 17-year-old Windows vulnerability

Seeded on Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:24 PM EST (ZD net)

One day after a Google security researcher released code to expose a flaw that affects every release of the Windows NT kernel — from Windows NT 3.1 (1993) up to and including Windows 7 (2009) — Microsoft dropped a security advisory to acknowledge the issue and warn of the ris …

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Human "bed-warmers" at Holiday Inn

Seeded on Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:59 PM EST (Reuters)

If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain's London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in an all-in-one fleece sleeper suit before slipping between the sheets.

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Bus-riding cat Casper killed in hit & run

Seeded on Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:55 PM EST (Reuters)

A cat which became famous in Britain for riding on the buses around the southern English city of Plymouth has died after being run over, media reported.

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Panel votes 2-1 to restore job of Seattle police officer fired for dishonesty

Seeded on Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:39 AM EST (The Seattle Times)

A Seattle police officer fired last May for dishonesty will get his job back, along with back pay, after the city's Public Civil Service Commission ruled that termination was too harsh.

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Scott Brown's Senate win tied to dissatisfaction with Obama, Washington and federal activism

Seeded on Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:33 PM EST (The L.A. Times)

The "message" may be that the Health Care Bills were the straw that broke the camels back but far from THE reason for the outcome.

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