Garamendi criticizes state budget impasse Says long-standing issues aren't being addressed A day after an $18 billion state budget deficit package evaporated in Sacramento, Lt. Gov. John Garamendi bemoaned the actions of Republicans and Democrats in the protracted financial feud. FULL STORY
These are interesting times for an economist, said Sunder Ramaswamy, president of Monterey Institute of International Studies. "I regret not being in the classroom," he said.
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SANTA ANA, Calif.—A former Orange County industrial business executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for arranging $1 million in bribes to foreign officials.
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A statement was made Wednesday as the reigning three-time Mission Trail Athletic League champions opened the league basketball season with a 53-42 win over host and nemesis Santa Catalina.
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NEW YORK — Shoppers are getting used to those 75 percent off sale signs, and that's bad news for merchants who worry they will also have to quickly slash prices on spring goods to attract customers.
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VERNON, Vt.—Vermont's lone nuclear power plant is cutting the amount of power it generates by 60 percent after finding a leak of mildly radioactive water.
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WASHINGTON — Ask not, you know, what your country can, like, do for you. Ask what you, um, can, you know, do for your country. After a lifetime of shying away from the public spotlight, Caroline Kennedy asked herself what she could do for her country.
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WASHINGTON — Master toolmaker John McClain built machine parts with details so small they couldn't be seen with the naked eye. Then a lump on his neck turned out to be cancer. Shalonda Frederick managed a bakery, and decorated cakes for special occasions.
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PHILADELPHIA — In Chad, the ivory poachers have upgraded to automatic weapons. Having bolstered the population at this "last stand for elephants" in central Africa, the Wildlife Conservation Society estimated recently that the animals' numbers had dropped again, from 3,500 to 1,000.
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Serial child molester James Lamb could have a new home in Monterey County within two weeks. On Wednesday, Judge Richard Curtis announced that a prospective housing site for Lamb "looks like it may work out," and that the site could be finalized and announced by Jan. 21.
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Amid a recent flurry of worrisome reports about plastic, a simple question came up: Could we live without it? Could my typical family — a mom, a dad, a 3-year-old girl and a 7-month-old boy — put aside the very material of American lives, the products that greet us after birth in the diapers we wea
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Henry's BBQ on Lighthouse Avenue in New Monterey competes with three other Peninsula barbecue houses, offering a hearty selection of pork ribs, pork loin, pulled pork, chicken, tri-tip, burgers and sandwiches.
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Armed with a stack of down-to-earth cookbooks, my daughter Alexis Thomas Harcharic and I started cooking together once a week. My goal was to help her establish a repertoire of uncomplicated recipes for one-pot dishes that could be prepared ahead without much fuss.
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BILLINGS, Mont.—A school bus driver made an unscheduled stop at a liquor store, then allegedly asked a student to help hide her purchases when police stopped her, the district superintendent said.
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Estranged from his father for 23 years, Joe Livernois recently joined his siblings for a reunion on the occasion of his father's 80th birthday in the heart of Mexico.
