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Mar 2010

Southern California counties rebounding from population declines

All six counties showed moderate population growth from 2008 to 2009, with all but San Diego County growing at a stronger rate than the year before. It's the latest sign that the region is recovering from the declines in population seen in...

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Mar 2010

Business leaders decry plan to raise DWP rates

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's plan to boost rates at the Department of Water and Power has drawn an outcry from business leaders who fear that his promise to create "green jobs" will be accomplished at the expense of their own...

25

Mar 2010

Hemet truck-torchings believed to be connected to earlier attacks on police

Four code-enforcement trucks were torched in the Hemet City Hall parking lot Tuesday, in a brazen attack that police believe is part of a shadowy but relentless campaign of violence against them. "We are assuming, because of the timing,...

25

Mar 2010

LAPD officer killed in Afghanistan roadside bomb attack

A member of the Los Angeles Police Department's elite SWAT unit, who also served as a U.S. Marine, was killed Wednesday in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb, LAPD officials said. Sgt. Maj. Robert J. Cottle, 45, was traveling with three other...