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24

Jul 2009

Obama calls white policeman who arrested scholar

WASHINGTON - Trying to tamp down an uproar over race, President Barack Obama said Friday he used an unfortunate choice of words in commenting on the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and could have "calibrated those words...

24

Jul 2009

L'Affaire Gates

After spending untold millions of dollars in its implementation, the Los Angeles Police Department has at long last been freed from the federal consent decree under which it has been operating for the past eight years. The decision to...

23

Jul 2009

Swine flu outbreak infects 20 at Los Angeles County jails

There have been 20 confirmed cases of swine flu in the Los Angeles County Jail system, with most of the infected inmates housed at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, the Sheriff's Department reported today. Inmates diagnosed with...

23

Jul 2009

No recovery in California until 2011, forecast says

(Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)A job seeker waits to use a phone at a career center in Richmond, Calif. Economist Jack Kyser predicts that the state's jobless rate will average 12.6% next year, but other economists call his prediction...