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These are a couple of pictures I took near our house yesterday. Just on the other side of those mountains are some of the fires in Orange county (Santiago canyon area). During the first days of the fires, the winds were blowing eastward which resulted in the smell of smoke and traces of ash all throughout our community. Since then, the winds have been blowing westward. Nevertheless, smoke has ...More

W.Va. Woman Speaks About Torture Ordeal By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER – 1 day ago CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Megan Williams thought she was going to a party. That's why she tagged along with a woman she hardly knew, up a remote southern West Virginia hollow to a run-down trailer surrounded by beer cans and broken-down furniture. "But there wasn't no party," Williams said. "I realized I'd made a bad mistake." For at least a ...More

Dead Like Me Groups To Host "Lie-In" At War Memorial Plaza To Draw Attention To Murder Epidemic By: Anna Ditkoff Kimberly Haven, executive director of Justice Maryland, a criminal-justice advocacy organization, was wrapping up an interview with an out-of-state reporter recently when he asked her about the city's perceived lack of outrage over the city's out-of-control homicide rate. Haven really gave the issue some thought. "There is outrage," she said. "It's just not a ...More

Man, 24, loses 82-year-old wife An 82-year-old Argentine woman who attracted media attention last month when she married a 24-year-old man has died as a result of heart problems. Adelfa Volpes was admitted to hospital soon after she and her new husband, Reinaldo Waveqche, returned from their honeymoon in Brazil. She died in a sanatorium in Santa Fe, the city where the couple were married. [SNIP] Their love is said to have blossomed when Mr ...More

If anything this blog has shown me it is how much I really enjoy reading up on current events, social issues and writing about them. This is something that keeps me up into the wee hours of the morning. Why? Because I love it. Am I getting paid for it? Not yet. As a child, I loved to write stories and plays. There were times I would listen to a song ...More

Kathy Holland, 50, a black woman, was killed in a double homicide with Leonard Pina in a drive-by shooting at 1038 W. 42nd Street just west of Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles at about 3:55 a.m. Friday, Oct. 19. She was shot repeatedly in the abdomen, and died at California Hospital at 6:07 a.m., nearly two hours after Pina died. LAPD South Bureau detectives said that Holland and Pina were ...More