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  • August 2008

    • Housing Dip Sends 1/3 of Owners Into Negative Equity

      Bloomberg  |  Aug 13, 08 2:56 PM CDT

      Housing Dip Sends 1/3 of Owners Into Negative Equity

      (Newser) - Nearly a third of US homeowners who bought in the last 5 years owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth, according to a report by Internet valuation site Zillow. Prices of houses dropped 9.9% in the second quarter, compared to the previous year, sending 29% of homeowners into negative equity. Almost a quarter of the homes sold in the past year were sold at a loss, Zillow says. More »

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      California  • housing market  • mortgage  • home equity  • negative equity

    • So, Your Wife's a Porn Star?

      GQ  |  Aug 12, 08 11:55 AM CDT

      So, Your Wife's a Porn Star?

      (Newser) - Married life with a porn star has its downsides, husbands admit: Wives can talk about the day at work, appear odd to soccer mom friends, or even suffer the occasional vaginal tear on the job. Or, says Bill—husband to Ryder Skye—you can lie around thinking of how she makes a living. But "I want her to be happy," he tells GQ . "On the downside, though, there are guys having sex with your wife." More »

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      California  • pornography  • adult films  • married couples  • adult performer

    • 40-Year-Old Virgin Actor Charged With Stabbing Ex

      Associated Press  |  Aug 12, 08 10:58 AM CDT

      40-Year-Old Virgin Actor Charged With Stabbing Ex

      (AP) - An actor in The 40-Year-Old Virgin was arrested in San Diego last night on attempted murder charges for allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend. Shelley Malil, 43, was nabbed on his way to meet with his attorney, who along with family and friends had persuaded him to turn himself in, police said. The woman is in critical condition with multiple stab wounds. More »

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      celebrity  • California  • arrest  • stabbing  • murder plot

    • Doris Day Now a Hermit Called Clara

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  Aug 11, 08 8:00 AM CDT

      Doris Day Now a Hermit Called Clara

      (Newser) - This is one legend who isn’t shopping a comeback. At 84, Hollywood icon Doris Day has changed her name to Clara Kappelhoff—her birth surname—and lives in obscurity in rural California where she spends her days rounding up stray animals to take back to her 11-acre fortress-like ranch, the Daily Mail reports. More »

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      celebrity  • California  • aging

    • Calif. Therapists Rake in Millions Under Sex Offender Law

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 10, 08 12:17 PM CDT

      Calif. Therapists Rake in Millions Under Sex Offender Law

      (Newser) - Psychologists and psychiatrists are cashing in on a California law requiring mental health screening for sex offenders, the LA Times reports. Last year, private contractors billed the state for millions of dollars in prisoner evaluations, with one psychologist bringing home $1.5 million. State officials defend the expense as necessary to defend public safety in the face of inadequate staffing. More »

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      California  • law  • mental health  • sex offenders  • psychiatrist  • psychologist

    • SEIU Local Paid Big Bucks to Relatives' Firm

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 9, 08 7:05 PM CDT

      SEIU Local Paid Big Bucks to Relatives' Firm

      (Newser) - California's biggest union local has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on companies owned by its president's relatives, the Los Angeles Times reports. The SEIU local for low-wage caregivers, and a related charity, paid six figures to a video company run by the wife and mother-in-law of union President Tyrone Freeman. He defends the expenses, which include nearly $300,000 on a golf tournament and $10,000 on a celebrity cigar lounge. More »

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      California  • Los Angeles  • corruption  • labor unions  • SEIU  • caregivers

    • Mexican Cartels Growing Pot in US National Park

      CNN  |  Aug 9, 08 7:14 AM CDT

      Mexican Cartels Growing Pot in US National Park

      (Newser) - Mexican drug cartels are growing hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of marijuana in the thick of California’s Sequoia National Forest, CNN reports. Hours on foot from the nearest road, pot gardens flourish with as many as 10,000 plants, irrigation systems created by daming mountain creeks, and their own armed guards. Pot production has intensified in the area as border control has made it harder to smuggle marijuana into the country from Mexico, says a drug enforcement agent. More »

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      California  • Mexico  • drugs  • marijuana  • drug cartel  • Sequoia National Forest

    • Philosophical Vintner Rethinks Wine

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Aug 8, 08 1:39 PM CDT

      Philosophical Vintner Rethinks Wine

      (Newser) - Abe Schoener is reinvigorating California wines with a decidely unorthodox, almost experimental, approach, writes Jon Bonne in the San Francisco Chronicle . Schoener, who lacks formal training, eschews the traditional do's and don’ts of the craft with his Scholium Project winery. His wines "are bizarre, ingenious and polarizing—quite simply unlike anything else being made anywhere in this country," writes Bonne. More »

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      California  • wine  • wineries  • biology  • plants  • grapes  • organic wine

    • Kidnap Dad Suspected in Love Triangle

      Boston Herald  |  Aug 7, 08 11:21 AM CDT

      Kidnap Dad Suspected in Love Triangle

      (Newser) - A love triangle could be behind a California couple's 1985 disappearance, which police say involved Christopher Chichester—potentially yet another alias for accused kidnap dad Clark Rockefeller, reports the Boston Herald . Authorities theorize Chichester, a tenant of Linda and John Sohus, may have become romantically involved with Linda before growing envious of her husband—a love triangle that may have resulted in murder. More »

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      California  • crime  • disappearance  • Clark Rockefeller  • murder plot  • love triangle  • unsolved crimes

    • Firefighters' Helicopter Crashes; 9 Feared Dead

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 6, 08 5:08 PM CDT

      Firefighters' Helicopter Crashes; 9 Feared Dead

      (Newser) - Nine people are missing and presumed dead and another four are badly burned after a helicopter carrying firefighters crashed in northern California, the Los Angeles Times reports. The helicopter went down Tuesday in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, but the cause is unclear. Those on board were helping fight a 27-square-mile fire in the forest. More »

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      California  • firefighters  • helicopter  • Shasta-Trinity National Forest

    • Kidnap Dad Now 'Of Interest' in Calif. Murder

      Boston Globe  |  Aug 6, 08 2:43 PM CDT

      Kidnap Dad Now 'Of Interest' in Calif. Murder

      (Newser) - Los Angeles police have joined officials interrogating accused kidnapper Clark Rockefeller in Boston after declaring him a “person of interest” in the 1985 disappearance of a couple now believed dead. Remains believed to be John Sohus were discovered in 1994, and wife Linda is yet unaccounted-for; authorities think Rockefeller—likely an alias—may be the mysterious guest who vanished after they did, the Globe reports. More »

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      California  • crime  • Clark Rockefeller  • Reigh Boss  • imposter  • cold cases  • kidnaping

    • 'Rockefeller' Prints Linked to Calif. Murder Case

      Boston Globe  |  Aug 5, 08 1:35 PM CDT

      'Rockefeller' Prints Linked to Calif. Murder Case

      (Newser) - Fingerprints taken from kidnapper dad Clark Rockefeller reveal a connection to a decade-old California murder case, the Boston Globe reports. Prints taken after his arrest Saturday in Baltimore match those on a driver’s license application under another alias—which in turn is on a list of those wanted in connection with the California homicide. More »

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      California  • crime  • kidnapping  • identity theft  • Clark Rockefeller  • Reigh Boss  •