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BBB looks to regain trust with relaunch of Southland branch
The Better Business Bureau wants you to know that it's cleaned up its act in Los Angeles. The organization reached out to me this week to say that a new operation is up and running after the old BBB of the Southland was expelled in March after years...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Consumers, Insurance, Trips and Vacations, Cardiologists
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'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Double the dances, triple the fun
Welcome to Week 8 of “Dancing With the Stars,” which host (and birthday boy) Tom Bergeron also dubbed “the special edition of ‘Len needs a cookie.'” So much happened in this two-hour quarterfinal spectacular. Each of the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Alexandra Raisman, Music, Entertainment Events, Justice System
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Bad news for egg lovers: Heart disease study spoils our breakfast
Fans of eggs -- scrambled, soft boiled or steaming in your breakfast burrito -- must now contend with a new report saying that the lecithin in this frequently vilified food raises the risk of heart disease due to its effect on intestinal bacteria. And...
Tags: Bacon, Diseases and Illnesses, Dietary Supplements, Medical Research, Heart Disease
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Mortician's lies exposed as she gets 18 months in burial scams
Jean Crump made up fabulous fictional deaths. She wasn’t a best-selling author or a fabled storyteller, but a mastermind of an elaborate life insurance scam, federal prosecutors say. For the fictional "Jim Davis," Crump created a bogus death...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Insurance, Police Investigations, Justice System, Fraud
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Georgia hostage-taker dead after SWAT team rescues firefighters
A man who took five Atlanta-area firefighters hostage Wednesday was dead hours later after trading fire with a SWAT team that entered the home where the firefighters were being held, officials said. One SWAT officer was shot in the arm or hand and was...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Verizon Communications, William Spengler, Fires, Explosions
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Driver dead, nine students injured in New Mexico school bus crash
A school bus driver was found dead and nine students were injured after their vehicle ran off an embankment in rural northern New Mexico on Monday morning, authorities said. The injured Mesa Vista School District students were between 7 and 15 years...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Motorvehicle Accidents, Disasters and Accidents, Students, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Mortician sentenced in burial plots
When the casket that was supposed to hold the earthly remains of Jim Davis was finally lowered into the ground, the only thing missing was the late Mr. Davis. The coffin had been weighed down to simulate the approximate heft of a corpse. And Jim Davis...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Insurance, Justice System, Lawyers, Fraud
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Richie Havens dies at 72; singer became Woodstock's opening act
Richie Havens, the veteran folk singer whose frenetic guitar strumming and impassioned vocals made him one of the defining voices and faces of Woodstock and 1960s pop music, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Jersey City, N.J. He was 72. His...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Greenwich Village, Richie Havens, Music, Entertainment Events
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Russia mass shooting suspect captured
MOSCOW -- An ex-convict suspected in the shooting of six people in the Russian city of Belgorod was arrested late Tuesday night as he tried to leave on a freight train, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said. Sergei Pomazun injured a police...
Tags: Prisons, Russia, Punishment, Theft
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Demi Lovato tweets picture of herself without makeup
Demi Lovato tweeted a photo of herself without makeup on Wednesday, urging her almost 13 million followers to do the same. "Ladies, be brave today.. take off your make-up and stop using those filters!! WE are beautiful!!!," she wrote as a caption to the...
Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Demi Lovato, Eating Disorders, Jonas Brothers (music group), Social Media
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Scams blocking Chinese investors' path to U.S. green cards
Jianwei Li and two other wealthy Chinese businessmen thought they had a sure thing when they wired $1 million each to a California firm that had promised to build a fine Chinese restaurant in the Bay Area city of San Bruno. The project had an alluring...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Migration, Immigration, Marketing
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Massive manhunt for suspect in killing of six in Russia
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.MOSCOW--Thousands of police and volunteers fanned out over the Russian city of Belgorod on Tuesday, hunting for a 32-year-old ex-convict who is suspected in the shooting deaths of six people, two of them teenage girls. The massive manhunt ranged through...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Moscow (Russia), Car Safety Tips and Advice, Rentals
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