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Print Ramon Medina spent eight years achieving his small-town political dream and about half of that time tarnishing it. After winning a seat on the Maywood City Council in 2015, Medina was engulfed in scandals. He voted on issues that raised questions of conflict of interest, including a 2016 caught growing marijuana as he pushed for a cannabis ordinance at City Hall. The following year, his home and auto shop were part of an anti-corruption raid. Undaunted, he ran for reelection in November but lost. Advertisement That Medina believed he had a chance of being reelected despite the controversies swirling around him might seem like a surprise. But he was a politician in one of a warren of small cities in southeast Los Angeles County where scandals have long festered and weren’t always a knockout against political ambitions. ....
Across Southern California, cities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help people get through the pandemic. Money is going to pay utility bills and rent, feed families, and help businesses keep the doors open. It s also backstopping stressed local government budgets in some places, and paying for coronavirus testing in others. Relief was supposed to come from California s allocation of federal CARES Act money. But the mayors of 60 cities are complaining that the way the money was divided meant their communities didn t receive a fair share. They ve signed a protest letter, from the California Mayors Coalition to Governor Newsom, asking for a larger share of the money. ....
getting a lot of hate mail and it s all because she is taking a stand against this. electronic arts newest come bat shooter game has all the blood and gore you would expect. but what s upset meredith is how the game lets players take on the role of the taliban in contemporary afghanistan with the object of killing american troops. but it s just so cavalier to say it s just a game. reporter: for meredith that scenario is all too familiar. she lost her son, lieutenant ken ballard in real cam bat in iraq in 2004. my son didn t get to start over and see if he had a different outcome when he was killed. and neither did any of the people in fallujah. so for people to think that this is a good idea, i m just so days pointed in electronic arts. reporter: electronic arts didn t respond to an email about the game but it published statements it compared to to cops and robbers. medal of honor is a multiplayer game and someone has to be the taliban, the statement says. be ....
surrender without a battle. some investigators believe the couple is somewhere in central wyoming. one report puts them hundreds of miles away near montana s border with canada. mccluskey s alleged accomplice, tracy province, was captured in wyoming. it happened without a struggle. maybe because the convicted killer was nabbed after a parishioner spotted him singing and shaking hands at her wyoming church. cnn s brian todd has the latest. reporter: though he is a convicted killer authorities say tracy prove insz was still relieved to have been captured outside of yellowstone national park. still at large, in that area, armed and dangerous, john charles mccluskey, along with welsh. authorities told our aillfate she is his fiancee and cousin. we learned mccluskey and his partner helped break them out of jail, consider themselves bonnie and clyde and joke bit. reporter: officials believe they cut a swath of murder and fear since that breakout on july 30th. that s whe ....