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 Sunday, Apr 22 What started as an effort to consolidate San Diego city workers in new downtown office space has devolved into a long-term vacancy that is costing taxpayers $535,000 in monthly rent for a building that is likely to remain empty for months to come. |
| Months after he was investigated for illegal gun sales -- a case that concluded with a written reprimand rather than criminal charges -- sheriff's Capt. Marco Garmo donated to his boss's re-election campaign. |
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| The ground beneath Fresno has held awful surprises for the California bullet train authority, which has disclosed that utility relocations along a 29-mile section of railway went from an original estimate of $69 million in 2013 to $396 million. |
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| The campaign for Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, raised more money than it spent in the first three months of the year, a change from recent filing periods in which spending — particularly on legal fees amid an ongoing criminal probe into his political expenditures -- has outpaced contributions. |
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| The embattled chief of the Environmental Protection Agency broke federal law when he spent more than $43,000 of agency funds to install a soundproof telephone booth in his office, federal investigators have found. |
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| Three months after being sworn in as the official in charge of setting property taxes across San Diego County, Ernest Dronenburg bought up to $100,000 worth of stock in the financial-services firm BGC Partners. |
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| A powerful computer program used by crime labs to interpret DNA evidence is as the center of a legal battle between a defense lawyer, prosecutors and the private company that developed the program. |
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