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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...

23

Jul 2009

Mayor Approves Fire Dept. Budget Cuts

Los Angeles (myFOXla.com) - Unable to win concessions from the firefighters union, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today approved a plan to reduce the Fire Department's projected $39 million budget deficit by not staffing several fire companies...

23

Jul 2009

How LAPD's "Closers" nabbed the westside rapist

Detective Diane Webb was determined. The Grim Sleeper, an anonymous killer who'd stopped murdering for 13 years, had resurfaced, and she had a plan for tripping him up. It was the fall of 2008, and she happened to show Detective Lauren...