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Irma Cobian was highly regarded at her Watts elementary school. But under California's 2010 trigger law, she was dismissed last week. 'It devastated our morale,' one teacher says.
Washington state officials scramble to find detours, as well as a temporary fix, amid new concern about an aging bridge infrastructure.
A 5.7 earthquake, the largest in California since 2008, strikes a less studied area of the state, sending seismologists to the mountainous eastern Sierra Nevada region.
The department is also conducting its own probe into whether SWAT and SIS officers resold custom-made pistols for profit.
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