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SF 'landlords from hell' plead guilty to felonies

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A couple that prosecutors dubbed the "landlords from hell" for going to scary lengths to drive tenants from a San Francisco apartment building have pleaded guilty to several felonies.

Pay rates for lawmakers, statewide officials

The California Citizens Compensation Commission voted Wednesday to restore some pay cuts to state lawmakers and statewide elected officials, amounting to a raise of more than 5 percent from current salaries. Here are the current base salaries and the salaries after the raises take effect Dec. 1:

Posted: June 19, 2013
Man pleads guilty to NM jewelry misrepresentation

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A California man has been sentenced to 30 months of probation in New Mexico for misrepresenting jewelry he made and sold.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Accused Calif. ex-professor may have more victims

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities believe a former University of Southern California professor who's accused of sex crimes involving two children has more victims.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Idaho man arrested on California fraud charges

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — Authorities have arrested a 65-year-old man who lived the last three years in an Idaho resort town on charges he helped steal millions of dollars from a Los Angeles physician.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Bill seeks to reduce health care exchange secrecy

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are considering a bill that would require the state's health insurance exchange to make more contract information available to the public.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Bulger's ex-enforcer grilled about varying stories

BOSTON (AP) — A former hit man who admitted killing 20 people insisted Wednesday that he told authorities the truth when he implicated James "Whitey" Bulger in 11 slayings, but he acknowledged lying in the past, including to a close friend just before he shot him in the head.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Immigrant advocates sue gov't over detainers

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigrant advocates have filed a lawsuit alleging that immigration agents are filing paperwork to keep arrestees in custody longer without investigating whether they're in the country illegally.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Dog that killed 6-year-old Calif. boy euthanized

UNION CITY, Calif. (AP) — A pit bull mix that bit and killed a six-year-old boy in Northern California has been euthanized.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Woman stabbed, killed on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say they've arrested three panhandlers for investigation of the fatal stabbing of a young woman who was taking photographs on Hollywood's star-lined "Walk of Fame."

Posted: June 19, 2013
LA Metro begins enforcing subway fares

LOS ANGELES (AP) — From now on, there's no free ride on the Los Angeles subway.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Judge may expand Calif. prison mental health case

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Attorneys who represent California inmates are asking a federal judge to expand the court's oversight of prison mental health care to include the Department of State Hospitals.

Posted: June 19, 2013
New Colo. wildfire prompts evacuations of homes

DENVER (AP) — A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver is forcing the evacuation of dozens of homes.

Posted: June 19, 2013
LA to give every student an iPad; $30M order

NEW YORK (AP) — Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the country, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks.

Posted: June 19, 2013
115K expected at Electric Daisy Carnival in Vegas

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Up to 115,000 ravers are expected each night this weekend for a dusk-to-dawn sensory overload of electronic dance music, partying and mingling at a sprawling racing complex outside Las Vegas.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Man convicted of fraud wins appeal in 9th circuit

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The conviction of a former Alaska prosecutor on wire fraud charges is no longer valid, a federal appeals court has determined.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Feds in Calif. bust international gambling ring

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal authorities have charged 18 people with involvement in an illegal gambling ring they say spanned from California to Peru and used violence against customers with outstanding debts.

Posted: June 19, 2013
BART police chief asks auditor to review reforms

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The chief of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police is asking an auditor to review the department's progress in meeting reforms instituted following the shooting of an unarmed man on a train station platform.

Posted: June 19, 2013
As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The federal government is spending less and less on preventing wildfires even as the nation endures increasingly destructive blazes.

Posted: June 19, 2013
LA teacher charged with killing wife

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles elementary school teacher has been charged with murder in the weekend stabbing of his estranged wife.

Posted: June 19, 2013
Commission votes to restore some pay for Calif. lawmakers, governor, other elected officials

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Commission votes to restore some pay for Calif. lawmakers, governor, other elected officials.

Posted: June 19, 2013

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