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LocalDan Girling, new manager at Mathews Trailer Lodge in San Luis Obispo, repairs a sagging fence Friday at the 30-unit park, which is expanding vacation rentals by buying out old units. Girling has been working on trimming trees and cleaning up the Higuera Street property.
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A second doctor who examined double-homicide suspect Andrew Downs testified in a court hearing Friday that the defendant was criminally insane at the time of the crime.
Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.
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A lawyer says the mother of the actress Phil Spector was convicted of killing has settled her wrongful death suit against the legendary music producer.
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The debate coach who worked with Mitt Romney ahead of two well-received debate performances in Florida is no longer with the Republican's presidential campaign.
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This is not a place of farmhouses, mom-and-pop diners, chitchats with voters over apple pie. This is a place of neon signs, abandoned homes, billboards promising quick vasectomies and slot machines shouting: Wheel! Of! Fortune!
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has warned of a war between Khartoum and South Sudan because their failure to settle a dispute over an oil export deal.
