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Oct
24
2021
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By Troy Warren
Phoenix: Grant Woods, former Arizona attorney general, dies at 67

Phoenix: Grant Woods, former Arizona attorney general, dies at 67

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Craig Harris | Maria Polletta | Arizona Republic Troy Warren for PhoenixNewsAndTalk.Com #EditorsPicks   Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, the prosecutor and politician who frequently broke with his longtime party to support Democratic candidates and causes, died Saturday from a heart attack. He was 67 years old. “I am so proud of the man he was, public servant, advocate for the everyday person, lover of music and stories and sports. He made me a better person. I can’t even fathom our lives without him. But we are strong, and a close family and we will work hard to honor his life,"…
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Oct
22
2021
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By Troy Warren
Los Angeles: Son of millionaire sentenced in fatal high-speed Lamborghini crash

Los Angeles: Son of millionaire sentenced in fatal high-speed Lamborghini crash

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By James Queally, Los Angeles Times Troy Warren for LosAngelesNewsAndTalk.Com Driver, who remains unnamed, was street racing on Feb. 17 when woman in another car killed The son of a Los Angeles millionaire was sentenced to seven to nine months in juvenile camp for slamming his father’s Lamborghini into another woman’s car earlier this year, ending a case that sparked protests and outcries from the victim’s family, who alleged the defendant was given soft treatment by authorities because of his age.   The driver — whose name is being withheld because he was 17 at the time of the crash —…
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Oct
22
2021
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By Troy Warren
Ugly Christmas sweaters, other holiday goods held up in ports

Ugly Christmas sweaters, other holiday goods held up in ports

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By Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press Troy Warren for CNT #Business ‘There’ll definitely be a shortage,’ one business owner said Go back just a year ago and it wouldn’t have mattered that three 40-foot corrugated metal shipping containers stuffed with thousands of ugly holiday sweaters couldn’t make their way out of a California port. Who was going out to the bars? Or heading to a big family dinner? Who worried about buying a new quirky sweater when life looked grim as COVID-19 cases soared? Fred Hajjar, president of Michigan-based UglyChristmasSweater.com, sold a lot of holiday lounge pants and pajamas last year as…
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Oct
21
2021
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By Troy Warren
U.S. marks 200 million COVID-19 shots shared with world

U.S. marks 200 million COVID-19 shots shared with world

COVID-19, In The News
By ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #COVID-19  WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Thursday donated its 200 millionth COVID-19 shot to help vaccinate the rest of the world, the White House announced. The Biden administration aims to lead a global vaccination campaign even as it rolls out boosters for domestic use, which critics say diverts doses from those who are in greater need around the world. The donated doses include more than 120 million in surplus from the U.S. stockpile of shots, as well as the initial deliveries of the 1 billion doses the Biden administration has purchased from Pfizer…
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Oct
16
2021
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By Troy Warren
Investigative team claims it has identified the infamous Zodiac Killer

Investigative team claims it has identified the infamous Zodiac Killer

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By ArLuther Lee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #Lifestyle A team of independent former law enforcement investigators has identified a man who died in 2018 as the infamous Zodiac Killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area more than 50 years ago but was never apprehended. However, the FBI and local law enforcement agencies say the conclusions reached by the unofficial task force of 40 cold case experts are largely based on circumstantial evidence, and that the man was not considered a suspect in five murders known to have been committed by the Zodiac in Northern California from 1968…
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Oct
16
2021
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By Troy Warren
Hollywood Battle Lines Emerge in Simmering Vaccine War

Hollywood Battle Lines Emerge in Simmering Vaccine War

COVID-19, Entertainment, In The News,
BY TATIANA SIEGEL, CHRIS GARDNER, BORYS KIT | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment #COVID-19 Without mandates to get a shot, some film and TV sets have been thrown into chaos as A-list holdouts have caused work stoppages while others say, “It’s not my place to police anyone.” In August, a high-profile actor was on the set of a film when he came down with COVID-19 and was hospitalized. The star, known to the cast and crew as being dismissive of vaccines and masks, was said to be unvaccinated. The film shut down for three weeks, but not before more than a dozen…
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Oct
11
2021
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Bomb scare that led to emergency landing caused by passenger’s camera

Bomb scare that led to emergency landing caused by passenger’s camera

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By John Annese, New York Daily News (TNS) Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks NEW YORK — The “security incident” that forced a New-York bound flight to make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday turned out to be a misunderstanding — after an airline passenger mistook another traveler’s camera for a bomb, sources said Sunday. American Airlines Flight 4817 from Indianapolis — operated by Republic Airways — made an emergency landing at LaGuardia just after 3 p.m., and authorities took a suspicious passenger into custody for several hours. It turns out the would-be “bomber” was just a vintage camera aficionado…
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Oct
10
2021
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October 10, 2021 Everything you need to know about the world today in 80 seconds

October 10, 2021 Everything you need to know about the world today in 80 seconds

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By wire reports Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks   Panda cubs at Tokyo zoo get their names Giant panda twins born at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo in June got their names Friday — Lei Lei for the female cub and Xiao Xiao for her brother. They were chosen from hundreds of thousands of suggestions sent from fans around Japan. The twin cubs, which were palm-sized pink creatures when born June 23, have grown and now have their unique black-and-white blocks, with black fur around their eyes, ears and limbs. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike announced their names during her news conference. She said…
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Oct
10
2021
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Phoenix: Metro Phoenix’s home prices poised to hit new record. Where are they climbing the fastest?

Phoenix: Metro Phoenix’s home prices poised to hit new record. Where are they climbing the fastest?

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Catherine Reagor | Arizona Republic Troy Warren for PhoenixNewsAndTalk.Com #RealEstate   Metro Phoenix’s hot housing market cooled a few degrees during the summer, but prices are climbing again. The Valley’s median home price is expected to have hit $410,000 in September and climb to a new record of $415,000 by mid-October, according to the Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service’s analysis of pending sales. The price increases are coming even as the supply of homes for sale continued to tick up and sales dipped slightly in August. That combination of slowing indicators had been keeping the Phoenix-area median home price hovering around $405,000…
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Oct
09
2021
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Los Angeles: Hot Real Estate Market Culver City Is Now “One of the Content Capitals of the Globe”

Los Angeles: Hot Real Estate Market Culver City Is Now “One of the Content Capitals of the Globe”

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BY HADLEY MEARES | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for LosAngelesNewsAndTalk.Com  #RealEstate Amazon Studios, WarnerMedia and TikTok have all taken office space in the city in the past four years, with Apple recently announcing a 550,000-square-foot headquarters. In 1995, Adam Lilling, founder and managing partner of PLUS Capital, a venture advisory firm that helps talent invest in startups and build brands, moved into an office in Culver City, whose glory days as the home of MGM and RKO were long past. “The office we were in always leaked — if it rained you had problems,” he recalls. “You just drove to work and…
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