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Number of homes entering foreclosure plunges in California
The number of California homes entering foreclosure plunged in the first quarter, the result of an improving economy, rising home prices and strict new state regulations on lenders. During the year's first three months, new foreclosure actions in the...
Tags: Homes, Foreclosures, Litigation and Regulation, Services and Shopping, Bank of America Corp.
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Foreclosure activity plunges in California with new laws in effect
New California foreclosure actions posted a sharp plunge in the first quarter to levels not seen since the last housing boom. Lenders filed 18,567 mortgage default notices on California houses and condominiums during the first three months of the year....
Tags: House Building, Services and Shopping, Real Estate, Crime, Law and Justice, Prices
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Dual-serving coastal commissioner resigns under fire
California Coastal Commissioner William Burke — who vocally supported dousing beach bonfires in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach — has resigned amid pressure from two state legislators. Burke is chairman of the South Coast Air Quality...Tags: Sports, Allan R. Mansoor, John A. Perez, Air Pollution, Environmental Pollution
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Coastal commissioner resigns after Vietnam 'carpet bombing' remark
A state coastal commissioner who vocally supported banning beach bonfires along a stretch of Orange County coastline has resigned under growing pressure from two state legislators. William Burke was serving as both a member of the state Coastal...
Tags: Sports, Allan R. Mansoor, John A. Perez, Air Pollution, Environmental Issues
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Obama calls compliment a 'teaching moment'
President Obama says he's learned a lesson about complimenting a woman's appearance in public. The president caused a stir earlier this month when he said California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris was "the best-looking attorney general in the country." In...
Tags: Today (tv program), Barack Obama, NBC (tv network)
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California panel advances bills targeting prescription drug abuse
A broad package of bills aimed at reducing prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths won approval from a key state Senate committee Monday. The bills, including a measure that would require coroners to report prescription-involved deaths to the...
Tags: Mark DeSaulnier, Behavioral Conditions, Politics, Curren D. Price, Jr., Darrell Steinberg
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Economist Zandi said to be candidate for key federal housing post
WASHINGTON -- Economist Mark Zandi reportedly is being considered by the Obama administration to head the federal agency that oversees taxpayer-owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as the White House seeks a candidate who could avoid Republican opposition...
Tags: White House, George W. Bush, Politics, Bankruptcy, Elections
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Harris and Newsom highlight opposition to Prop. 8
SACRAMENTO -- California’s top prosecutor used her refusal to defend Proposition 8, a voter-passed initiative that bans same-sex marriage in California, as an example of Democratic values as she spoke to party activists on Saturday. “When I...Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Politics, Marriage, Elections, Gays and Lesbians
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California Democrats gather in Sacramento to celebrate victories
California Democrats, gathered for their annual convention in Sacramento this weekend, are expected to celebrate their victories -- holding every statewide elected office, winning super majorities in both houses of the Legislature in November and...Tags: Politics, John Burton, Nancy Pelosi, Elections, Regional Authority
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California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for legalizing pot
SACRAMENTO-- Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom called for the legalization of marijuana on Saturday. “It’s time to decriminalize, tax and regulate marijuana,” he told delegates at the California Democratic Party convention. “It’s...Tags: Jerry Brown, Politics, Barack Obama, Regional Authority, Government
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Eye-candy comment leaves sour aftertaste
Dear Barry: Ordinarily, I'd address you as Mr. Obama or Mr. President, in deference to your office. But we need to have us a guy-to-guy chat here, so I hope you'll excuse the familiarity, because I just have to ask: Barry, brotherman, bubbeleh, what the...
Tags: The Miami Herald, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Periodicals, MSNBC (tv network), White House
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Another patient of O.C. doctor dies of prescription drug overdose
An Orange County doctor featured in a Times investigative report because 16 of his patients fatally overdosed on drugs he prescribed has had another patient death, according to recently released coroner's records. Wayne Oviatt, a patient of Dr. Van Vu...
Tags: Morphine (drug), Darrell Steinberg, Prescription Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, General Practitioners
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