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Covered California™ today announced 13 diverse health insurance plans that will offer in 2014, affordable, quality health care coverage to millions of Californians.

The defense in the Zimmerman case has been fighting a so-far-losing battle to depose Martin family lawyer Ben Crump. He's the guy who produced "witness number 8", and provided a recording of an interview with her that had several missing portions. ABC news was also present at the interview, and has now released this recording that captures Crump's interaction with the witness. http://www.gzdocs.com/documents/0313/mfr_exhibits/exhibit_g.mp4

The La Paz County Attorney’s Office is reviewing the actions of the Quartzsite Town Council at their June 4, special meeting. At that meeting, the council approved the canvas of the May 15 general election. They also determined mayoral candidate Ed Foster was not qualified to serve as mayor, and that council candidate Mark Orgeron was not qualified to serve on the council. They determined Patricia Workman was qualified to serve on the council.

US and Egyptian special forces have reportedly been offering covert armed training to rebel fighters in the battle for Libya, Al Jazeera has been told.

More than 9 pounds of an explosive commonly used by terrorists was found at an Escondido home where a landscaper was injured by a blast last week, authorities announced Saturday.

Tests on a supertanker adapted to skim large quantities of oily water from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico are inconclusive because of high seas, ship owner TMT Shipping Offshore said on Monday

This letter is in response to the directive in Addendum 2 for BP... to identify within 24 hours... one or more dispersant products (etc.)

Nice turnout at Escondido, California's gathering, about 600 patriots lined both sides of Escondido Boulevard near the downtown post office from 5 to 7pm. Friendly folks, good spirit, lots of happy waves from passing drivers. The event was preceeded by an hour long demonstration of support for our police chief, who's under attack by local Hispanic activists for his insistance that drivers be properly licensed and insured. It was also nice to see this kind of turnout of support on the day after our City Council voted to put a pacifist sponsored "Peace Pole" on city property. The polls, as...

A Seattle police officer was shot to death and another officer was wounded late Saturday night while conducting a traffic stop in the city's Central District neighborhood. The officer who died was a veteran of the department, and the woman who was wounded is a student officer in training, Assistant Chief Jim Pugel said

Looks like those little Honduran soccer guys are holding their own against the US in their World Cup qualifier tonight. 0-0 at the 1/4 point. No television coverage, you have to follow it on the USSoccer.com website's matchtracker. This could be a big night for both teams.

So far the result of the 2009 Iran elections is that both candidates have declared victory. However, more news agencies say Mahmound Ahmadinejad has a lead.

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The pilots of the Continental Connection turboprop that crashed in February near Buffalo N.Y., rushed through mandatory checklists in a matter of seconds, but spent almost the entire 59-minute flight from Newark, N.J., bantering about personal issues, job goals and the theoretical hazards of ice accumulation during winter flying, according to the cockpit recorder transcript released Tuesday by federal investigators.

FOX Lie to Me 2.4/7 2.1/7 7.88 ABC Obama 1.6/5 1.4/5 6.12 etc.

The Oakland parolee who took the lives of four Oakland police officers knew he was a wanted man and deliberately skipped out on a meeting as part of a feud he was having with his parole agent, his family said today.

Home sales skyrocketed 254.9 percent in the Riverside/San Bernardino area in October, compared with the same period a year ago, while the median home price fell 39.7 percent to $209,990, according to figures released Tuesday.

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF VENTURA AND LOS ANGELES COUNTIES TONIGHT THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY DUE TO STRONG NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES...

Yet another Southern California wildfire underway, this time in the eastern San Diego County area near Witch Creek on Highway 78 between Ramona and Julian. Wind driven fire, caused by power lines dropping. Over a thousand acres since its start about an hour and a half ago. Chief on scene requesting 7 air tankers, 6 helicopters, 10 strike teams of brush engines, and 6 strike teams of structure engines. Resources in the area are very low, so unknown how much of that order he'll actually get. Fire's blowing south and west, smoke visible 10 miles away. Highway 15 in northern...

much of the money was being, in effect, siphoned off by executives of the supposedly nonprofit groups for other purposes.... And it didn't take long... to learn that the executives had a lot of political pull, especially with members of the Legislature's Latino Caucus

The third three-plus earthquake in the last two days just rumbled through the Southern California desert. The latest, a 4.2 event was near Indio, California, and was felt more than 100 miles away in northern San Diego County.

A SWAT team in Yuba City has surrounded a house near a middle school where officials believe a suspect who had threatened a killing spree at area schools may be nearby, authorities said.