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Sep 2009

WASHINGTON -- The deadly Station Fire in the Angeles National Forest is renewing a push from California lawmakers for a national registry of convicted arsonists. Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein filed legislation...

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Sep 2009

Governor's prison plan seeks more time to reduce inmate population

Reporting from Sacramento - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday evening gave federal judges a road map to reducing state prison overcrowding. But the proposal would take more than twice as long as the judges ordered to make the...

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Sep 2009

Grand jury indicts couple who bragged about shoplifting

Reporting from San Diego - Even by the confessional standards of the "Dr. Phil" television show, it was a whopper of an admission. The nicely dressed couple said they had roamed several states as shoplifters, stealing mostly toys, selling...

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Sep 2009

Police divers in San Pedro search for gun pointed at officers by robbery suspect

A Los Angeles Police Department dive team was searching Saturday for a handgun that was likely tossed into the ocean just off Point Fermin Park in San Pedro by a robbery suspect who tumbled down a cliff with a police dog during a chase,...