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• Post 9/11 dragnet turns up surprises
In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials ...
• Answer Desk: How bad is the economy?
Initially sparked by the bursting of the Internet stock bubble, the 9/11 attacks put consumers and employers in a gloomy mood. But the overall economy proved to be pretty resilient — helped by a flood of money in the form of interest rate cuts by ...
• Orcutt shopping centers on board agenda
The Board of Supervisors meets at 9 a.m. at the Board of Supervisors hearing room Betteravia Government Center at 511 at E. Lakeside Parkway in Santa Maria.
• Calif. firefighters brace for heat wave
Residents in more than 2,600 homes in the path of a 9,367 acre fire in the Santa Barbara area were still under evacuation orders. Families who live in another 850 houses were warned to be ready to leave at short notice, county officials said.
• General Motors may bring new mini car to U.S.
On Wednesday, GM shares sank as low as $9.96, their lowest level since September 1954, according to the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago.