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• Hundreds of four-legged friends are getting left behind, due in part ...
Compared to last year, Santa Barbara County Animal Services has seen 150 more dogs given up to the shelter, and they have seen an increase of more than 400 stray dogs. While they can't pinpoint the exact cause, they know for sure that the economy is ...
• India call centers get another view of U.S.
In the past, debt-saddled customers were often annoyed by Chaturvedi's calls from the open-air office at Aegis BPO Services. But now they seem depressed, defeated. Even the men sob into the phone, several agents said. Under the pseudonym Carol Miller ...
• Another teen abandoned at Nebraska hospital
There was no sign the boy was in immediate danger before he was abandoned and no indication why the boy's mother decided to leave him at the hospital, said Todd Landry, who heads the state's Department of Health and Human Services' division of ...
• Miss. FBI chief from civil rights era dies at 94
Giglio said Moore made such an impression on her husband and her sister's husband that both men joined the FBI after getting to know him. "I guess he was a pretty good recruiter in that way," she said. Services for Moore are at 2 p.m. Friday at Wright ...
• Officials: Financial crisis can lead to violence
In some places, mental-health hot lines are jammed, counseling services are in high demand and domestic-violence shelters are full. "I've had a number of people say that this is the thing most reminiscent of 9/11 that's happened here since then," said ...