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A hot air balloon fight takes to the Coachella Valley skies

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Hot air balloon businesses had thrived in the Coachella Valley for decades. Then came new neighbors on an 80-acre property, at left, who began filing lawsuits. Lots of them.

Vernon's rocky finances worry L.A. County supervisors

Garrett Therolf and Sam Allen | 4:24 p.m.
The board voted to order an investigation of Vernon's finances amid worries that an effort to dissolve the city might unfairly burden county coffers.

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Guns from Operation Fast and Furious were found at scenes in Arizona and Texas, the Justice Department acknowledges, widening the scope of the danger posed by the program.
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