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SANTA BARBARA – 9:04 pm – Santa Barbara is bucking a statewide trend when it comes to hiring police officers, according to new census figures. The number of officers has continued to rise in California, while Santa Barbara’s have gone down. There were 69,429 police officers employed during 2009, according to data compiled by the [...]
DETROIT – 7:19 am – Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s office said he and other city officials will hold a news conference this afternoon to address the dozens of fires that swept across the city overnight, devastating several neighborhoods. Bing, Deputy Mayor Saul Green and Fire Commissioner James Mack will speak with the media at 2 [...]
LOS ANGELES – 7:13 am - Investigators found no explosives aboard a Los Angeles-bound Thai Airways flight in which a bomb threat was found scrawled on a bathroom mirror, the FBI said Wednesday. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said investigators conducted a thorough search of the plane Tuesday night and found no evidence to suggest a [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – 6:55 am – The oil giant BP said Wednesday in its internal report that a series of failures involving a number of companies ultimately led to the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy,” BP said in a statement about the report. “Rather, [...]
APPLE VALLEY 12:32 pm - A 16-month-old boy has died after the off-road vehicle he was riding in plunged into a spillway in Apple Valley. CHP detectives say the driver — the baby’s father — was driving under the influence. It happened around 9:30 p.m. near the intersection of South Deep Creek Road and Rock [...]
BOULDER – 12:20 pm – A fierce wildfire west of Boulder, Colo., which destroyed dozens of homes and caused 3,000 people to flee Monday, continued to rage Tuesday afternoon. “The fire hasn’t changed much since last night,” Mike Banuelos, Boulder County public information officer, reported midday Tuesday. He added there is no information about containment [...]
SAN DIEGO – 11:00 am – Two brothers have been charged with fraudulent real estate deals that bilked hundreds of victims across Southern California out of an estimated $1.5 million to finance a lavish lifestyle, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. David Zepeda, 57, and John Zepeda, 59, have been charged with [...]
LOS ANGELES – 10:31 am -Does happiness rise with income? In one of the more scientific attempts to answer that question, researchers from Princeton have put a price on happiness. It’s about $75,000 in income a year. They found that not having enough money definitely causes emotional pain and unhappiness. But, after reaching an income [...]
SAN DIEGO – 3:15 am – Despite Southern California’s laid-back image, it appears that workers throughout the region are working harder and longer than their counterparts in Northern California – and they’re more fearful of losing their jobs, according to a Harris/Decima poll released this week. More than half of all Californians say they have [...]
NEW YORK – 12:00 am Three relatives of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark went to court Friday, asking that a guardian be appointed to protect her from potential financial abuse by her attorney and accountant. The family also asks the court to bar the two men from visiting their 104-year-old client. Msnbc.com reported last week that [...]