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At one point last year, it appeared as though Sheriff Sandra Hutchens’ promise to hold dishonest deputies accountable was on par with the public stance taken by her crooked predecessor: empty talk. That’s when prosecutors accused deputies of employing a code of silence to protect a fellow officer from an excessive-force conviction after he twice …
One January night in 2003 when her boss called, asking her to come in for a night shift of janitorial work at the Brooklyn Con Ed building, Julia protested, complaining of a fever. But with an 8-year-old son and 4-month-old daughter at home, she knew she couldn't give up the work. The family needed every …
Originally posted at 5:12 p.m., June 30. Updated 9:07 a.m. July 1: Orly's mad at us! See bottom of post. Irvine real-estate guy Damon Dunn beat Laguna Niguel dentist/birther lawyer Orly Taitz by a margin of roughly three-to-one in this month's primary election to determine the Republican candidate for Secretary of State. But though the …
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Ann Marie Habershaw, chief operating officer of the Democratic National Committee, sent out one of those mass emails claiming her party has a plan to do well in the mid-term elections–if the person receiving the message sends back five bucks by tonight. Little did Habershaw know that the Bard of the Gypsy Den would hit …
The road mentioned in the impressively thorough Bowers Museum exhibition “Secrets of the Silk Road” is not silk or even a road, but a series of trade routes crisscrossing the mountains and deserts of China. The routes allowed individuals unfazed by (or unaware of) the vicious terrain to travel from as far west as Europe …
[via Yahoo News]Paul Gray's autopsy results, released Monday, show that Slipknot's heavy metal bassist died of an accidental overdose of morphine and fentanyl, a synthetic morphine substitute, police said Monday. ] Gray, 38, was found dead in a hotel room in Des Moines on May 25 by a hotel worker. Later, the worker told a …
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Our brethren and sistren at Phoenix New Times have done some awesome writing about why your cocktail waitress hates you and why your pizza delivery guy hates you. I've never been a cocktail waitress (you may now all breathe a collective sigh of relief) or a pizza delivery guy, but I have been a bouncer, …
Father's Day is this weekend, and if you're not in the mood to pay $50 for a $20 steak at a fancy restaurant, you can certainly make your own at home. Great steaks are bought, not cooked; when you buy the steak of your dreams, all you have to do is not screw it up. …
Crafty friends, I'm sure I'm not the only one out there that has a yarn stash that is slowly but surely resembling an episode of Hoarders. Like many of you, my party bucket of yarn has steadily gained momentum through fiber gifts from family and friends, yarn swaps with my knitting group, and amazing finds at …
Last year, the Weekly named Newport Beach's Blackie's By the Sea the “Best Legal Way to get Drunk at the Beach.” Is it too self-inflating to believe Esquire magazine, in the hunt for entries into their “On the Water” category for their 2010 list of the Best Bars in America, took a hint from us? …
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The longest-running study of same-sex couples concludes the children of lesbian parents outscore their peers socially and academically. Results of the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study leave no doubt as to the success of lesbian couples as parents, according to a University of California, San Francisco, researcher who has worked on the project since 1986. …
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*This article was modified on June 12, 2010. By 9:15 p.m. Tuesday night, Wolf Blitzer had already declared this primary election to signal “the year of the woman.” In the biggest statewide races, it was also the year of the bazillionaire, with the not-very-suprising Republican primary wins for gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and U.S. Senate …