The Ventura County Commission for Women is leading a landmark study in Ventura County to provide an understanding of the roles of women and girls in the community.
Read more in the Ventura County Star: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/jul/29/study-to-explore-role-of-ventura-county-women/#ixzz227bNmRVE
Latino residents struggle with crime and unemployment in neighborhoods where tourists are scarce.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A military prosecutor on Tuesday opened the first court-martial in the death of Pvt. Danny Chen, a Chinese-American from Lower Manhattan, by declaring that he committed suicide last year while serving in Afghanistan after enduring repeated abuse by a fellow soldier, including racial taunts and a physical attack.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Authorities remained on alert Wednesday after protesters set fires, smashed windows and threw rocks at officers in a fourth day of violent protests over deadly police shootings, ending with 24 arrests and several injuries.
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PHOENIX — The man who calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff” made his way into the federal district courtroom here on Tuesday wearing a black suit and a stern expression. He spelled out his name for the clerk — “Joseph M. Arpaio, A-R-P-A-I-O,” then raised his right hand, swearing to tell the truth before he took
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, whose trial in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit continues this week in Phoenix, didn’t get to be America’s most notorious anti-immigrant lawman by being shy. The camera and microphone are blood and oxygen to him. Where he goes, he trails TV crews, a gallery of rabid followers, posse volunteers
PHOENIX — Letters purporting to offer information about illegal immigrants are among a vast array of evidence to be introduced in the class-action civil rights trial against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office that began on Thursday in Federal District Court here.
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LOS ANGELES — This would seem a moment of great opportunity for California Republicans. The state has become a national symbol of fiscal turmoil and dysfunction, the Legislature is nearly as unpopular as Congress and Democrats control every branch of government.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/us/politics/california-republicans-seek-a-turnaround.html?_r=1&hpw
PHILADELPHIA — Four years ago as Viviette Applewhite, now 93, was making her way through her local Acme supermarket, her pocketbook hanging from her shoulder, a thief sliced the bag from its straps.
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It is a sad fact of Republican politics that wild statements from its right flank are rarely challenged by ranking party leaders. Give credit to John McCain, too often a wayward voice in recent years, for taking to the Senate floor Wednesday to skewer a crackpot allegation of a Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy to infiltrate the