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Death toll in Mexico's drug war surges
In a chilling assessment of Mexico's drug war, the country's top prosecutor said Monday that more than 5,000 people had been killed in drug violence so far this year, more than double the toll for the same period in 2007. Atty. Gen. Eduardo Medina Mora...Tags: Justice System, Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Gang Activity, Lawyers
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Pawning Helps Pay for the Pinata in Loan-Poor Mexico
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAurora Rico Torres is hosting a big holiday party this week, part of a nine-day celebration leading up to Christmas. Before buying the pozole, punch and pinatas, she took part in another Mexican tradition: pawning. On a recent afternoon, the young...Tags: Religious Festivals, Holidays, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Economy, Business and Finance
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'The Jewel of Medina' by Sherry Jones
Special to The Times"THE JEWEL of Medina," a novel by journalist Sherry Jones, was originally to be published in August. But Random House decided to drop this historical romance about A'isha, the child bride of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, after an alarm was sounded by an...Tags: Laurel, O.J. Simpson, Book, Censorship, University of Texas at Austin
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Hodgkin's disease treatment without a blood transfusion
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor the masses in the middle -- people who may have to borrow and scrape to pay for care -- finding the best of the best can be just as important. Ruth Medina, 25, had a good prognosis with standard medical treatment when she suffered a recurrence of...Tags: Oncology, Medical Procedures and Tests, Diseases and Illnesses, Cancer, Health
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Mexico drug war's costs, risks exported to U.S.
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLorenzo de la Torre Torres was on the cusp of death. Drug cartel hit men had pumped the deputy police chief with more than 20 bullets, and slightly wounded his boss, after a wild car chase in Nuevo Casas Grandes, the Mexican city the two were supposed to...Tags: El Paso County (Texas), Government, Defense, Vehicles, Hospitals and Clinics
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United Airlines grounds 777s for inspections, cancels 31 flights
From the Associated PressCHICAGO -- United Airlines temporarily grounded 11% of its fleet and cancelled 31 flights today while it tested dozens of Boeing 777s to make sure components of a cargo fire suppression system were operating effectively. The inspections are the latest to...Tags: United Air Lines, Air Transportation Delays, Southwest Airlines Co., Air Transportation Industry, Boeing Co.
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Mexico arrests major drug-trafficking suspect
Mexican authorities said Wednesday that they arrested a leading drug figure known as El Rey after a shootout in Mexico City early this week. Jesus Zambada Garcia, the brother of a suspected drug kingpin in the western state of Sinaloa, was among 16...Tags: Justice System, Human Rights, Prosecution, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mexico traffickers bribed former anti-drug chief, officials say
In a spiraling probe of corruption at the top levels of Mexican law enforcement, authorities said Friday that the nation's former anti-drug chief had accepted $450,000 to tip off traffickers. Noe Ramirez Mandujano, a veteran federal prosecutor who headed...Tags: Justice System, Prosecution, Government, Crime, Law and Justice, United Nations
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Mexico acknowledges drug gang infiltration of police
In a damning blow to its fight against drug traffickers, the Mexican government Monday acknowledged severe penetration of a top law enforcement agency by a vicious gang that may even have bought intelligence on U.S. operations from renegade employees. At...Tags: Justice System, Labor Legislation, Prosecution, Defense, Corporate Crime
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Control is elusive on many fronts
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersMichael Klastorin watched the wind near his Saugus home catch some small flames. Within a minute, the fire had reduced a 100-yard slope of chaparral to soot and withered sticks. Then from behind a ridge closer to his home, black smoke poured into the...Tags: Holidays, Wildfires, Forests, Family, Fires
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'The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton' by Iliya Troyanov
Some men and women have such a profound and lasting effect on literature and popular culture that they make the rest of us look as though we've spent our lives chasing our tails. One such bigger-than-life individual was the English explorer, linguist,...Tags: India, Book, Social Issues, Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Slavery
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Mecca, by way of Costa Mesa
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe students stared at the overhead screen and read the words in unison: Labbaik. Allah humma labbaik. The Southern California Muslims repeated those words -- "Here I am, Lord. I am here to serve you" -- as they donned pilgrims' robes last week in the...Tags: Hajj, Saudi Arabia, Starbucks Corp., Southern California Edison Company, Homes
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