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Articles from the January 7, 2013 edition


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  • Inland Empire Pot Entrepreneur Gets 10 Years

    Updated Jan 7, 2013

    LOS ANGELES - The head of an Inland Empire pot-growing and distribution business was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for distributing hundreds of pounds of marijuana. Aaron Sandusky, 42, of Rancho Cucamonga, founder and owner of G3 Holistic, was convicted at trial in October of conspiring to grow pot, possessing it and distributing it. Federal prosecutors described Sandusky in Los Angeles federal court documents as ''a money-hungry criminal utterly uninterested in abiding by the rules of ordered society.''...

  • Perpetrator of Business License Scam Pleads Guilty

    Updated Jan 7, 2013

    RIVERSIDE - A Riverside man who posed as a county official to illegally collect payments for renewing expired fictitious business licenses pleaded guilty today Thomas Gerald Elder, 45, was arrested in the fall of 2011 in connection with a document-processing scam. He was charged with two counts of forgery of an official seal and one count each of grand theft, attempted grand theft exceeding $450 and misdemeanor false advertising. During a trial-setting conference before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Helios Hernandez,...

  • Huell Howser of ''California's Gold'' dies in Palm Springs at 67

    Updated Jan 7, 2013

    PALM SPRINGS - Longtime Southern California television host and Palm Springs resident Huell Howser, who used his folksy interviewing style to introduce viewers to little-known Golden State locales and the state's unique residents, died today at age 67. Howser, a native Tennessean with twang to match, died in Palm Springs at 2:35 a.m. of natural causes, according to the Riverside County Coroner's Office. Howser's spokesman Ryan Morris told City News Service that Howser died at his home following a long illness. Morris, who dec...