Los Angeles Police: Mumbai-Style Attack a ‘Likely Scenario’

LOS ANGELES | Police are using a combination of aggressive spy operations and community outreach to counter what Deputy Police Chief Michael P. Downing called the growing threat of Mumbai-style terrorist attacks — car bombings and small-arms-equipped suicide teams. “The biggest fear I have is just what I don’t know,” Chief Downing, commanding officer of […]

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L.A. Mayor: Illegal Immigration Adds to ‘Economic Might’ of Deficit-Ridden California

By Christopher Neefus Washington (CNSNews.com) – Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told CNSNews.com Thursday that illegal immigration has not contributed to his city’s budget problems, but, on the contrary, that illegal immigration adds to the “economic might” of California. “In California, I think there’s a real sense that these immigrants provide a great deal to the economic might of […]

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City of Angels on brink of abyss

Los Angeles, the second-largest US city, is facing a crisis of funding not seen since the darkest days of the Great Depression Two and a half years after the official start of the worst economic downturn and fiscal crisis in nearly 80 years, America’s economy is supposedly growing again, the stock market is halfway recovered […]

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