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Investigators Hunt For Motive After Army Vet Killed
LANCASTER (CBS) — Detectives on Monday sought to determine a motive in the fatal shooting that left a 30-year-old U.S. Army veteran dead last weekend. KNX 1070’s Jon Baird reports homicide...
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Opinion: A Mad, Personal-Attacking, Interrupting Obama Loses Third...
GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney clearly defeated President Barack Obama in the third presidential debate held Monday night at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. Unlike viewers witnessed...
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Opinion: Our Veterans Should Not Be At Risk In Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
This Veterans Day, American leaders should make a few simple commitments. First, America should not balance the budget on the backs of our veterans. Any budget deal has to protect the benefits that...
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Corona Welcomes Wounded Soldier Home With Parade
CORONA (CBSLA.com) — Hundreds of people lined Corona’s Main Street Tuesday to welcome home Army Sgt. Jordan Sisco for the holidays. Sisco, 22, lost both legs in an explosion in Afghanistan last July,...
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Nurse Wants San Diego Mayor Advances Investigated
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A nurse came forward Tuesday to say that embattled San Diego Mayor Bob Filner demanded a date earlier this year in exchange for fulfilling her request to help get treatment for an...
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Local Habitat For Humanity, CalVet Team Up To Build Affordable Homes For...
SYLMAR (CBSLA.com) — A local chapter of Habitat for Humanity has partnered up with the California Department of Veterans Affairs to build affordable houses for hundreds of working veterans and their...
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Syrian Americans Rally In Westwood Against Possible U.S. Military Intervention
WESTWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Locals protested potential U.S. military action against Syria as President Obama mulls over the decision following a chemical weapons attack in the country last week. Protestors...
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Iraq War Veteran Accused Of Homeless Slayings Dies
SANTA ANA (AP) — A former Marine accused of murder in the deaths of four homeless men, a woman and her son has died at a hospital after falling ill in his jail cell. Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Jeff...
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Jewelry Store Clerk Recalls Paul Walker’s Anonymous Gift To Soldier and Fiancee
SANTA BARBARA (CBSLA.com) — Paul Walker was best known for his movies and fast cars, but a former Santa Barbara jewelry store clerk will remember him most for his generosity. Several years ago during...
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California Man Charged With Aiding Terror Group
SACRAMENTO (AP) — A federal grand jury in Sacramento has indicted a California man on a single charge of attempting to provide support to a foreign terrorist organization. Nicholas Teausant had...
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More Than 57,000 US Military Veterans Await First VA Appointment
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 57,000 U.S. military veterans have been waiting 90 days or more for their first VA medical appointments, and an additional 64,000 appear to have fallen through the cracks,...
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Iraqi-Born Religious Scholar Says Homeland Is On Verge Of Civil War
ROWLAND HEIGHTS (CBSLA.com) — Imam Moustafa al-Qazwini, a religious scholar born in Iraq and living in Rowland Heights, said his homeland is on the verge of a civil war. “It’s going to be worse than...
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Analyst: Fall Of Baghdad Would Make Current Gas Prices ‘Look Like A Bargain’
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Oil industry analysts are warning a brewing civil war between Islamic militants in Iraq could potentially send gas prices soaring here in the Southland. KNX 1070’s Pete...
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Mother Who Lost Son In Iraq War Reacts To President’s Decision Not To Return...
LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Some veterans who spent months training Iraqi forces in the battle for Iraq, say it’s disheartening to see the forces they guided and educated putting down their weapons....
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Anti-War Protesters Gather Outside Downtown LA Veterans Hospital
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A group of anti-war protesters Thursday gathered outside a veterans hospital in downtown Los Angeles just as President Obama announced he’s sending 300 military advisers to...
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SoCal Residents Fear For Family In Iraq As Violence Continues
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Officials Saturday carried out a third round of U.S. airstrikes against Islamic state militants, leaving many people across Southern California concerned for family members in...
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Parents Of Journalist Murdered By Terrorists In 2002 React To ISIS Beheading
STUDIO CITY (CBSLA.com) — A video posted to social media Tuesday claimed to show the beheading of an American journalist by the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS,...
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Rep. Schiff: Congress ‘Should Have A Vote’ On ISIS Military Action
PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — A Southland lawmaker is calling for President Obama to seek Congressional authorization for any expanded military effort to confront violent Islamic State militants in Iraq and...
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Victorville Woman Makes Priceless Find 11 Years After Military Husband’s Death
VICTORVILLE (CBSLA.com) — Eleven years after her husband was killed in Iraq, a mother in Victorville has made a priceless find wrapped in the American flag that was given to her by the military. Biani...
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Celebrities Under Fire Over Controversial Tweets About ‘American Sniper’ Film
WESTWOOD (CBSLA.com) — A pair of celebrity personalities are under fire after making controversial remarks over the film “American Sniper” over Twitter. The film, a true story directed by Clint...
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Tribute To California’s Fallen Service Members Unveiled At Reagan Library
SIMI VALLEY (CBSLA.com) — Service members who have died since the 9-11 terror attacks, and called California home, are being remembered in an exhibit that was to be unveiled Saturday morning at the...
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NBC News Anchor Brian Williams Suspends Himself Temporarily
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brian Williams said he is temporarily stepping away from the “NBC Nightly News” amid questions about his memories of war coverage in Iraq, calling it “painfully apparent” that he has...
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Dozens Of Anti-War Protesters Rally In Hollywood
http://media.losangeles.cbslocal.com/CBSLA_2103201520281739444AA.mp4 HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Dozens of anti-war protesters marched through Hollywood Saturday. the protest prompted police to shut...
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Marine Could Go Back To The Brig For Killing Iraqi Civilian
CAMP PENDLETON (AP) — A Marine sergeant could be locked up yet again after being convicted a second time of killing an Iraqi civilian nearly a decade ago in one of the military’s longest-running war...
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Jury Rules No Extra Prison Time For Marine Who Killed Iraqi
CAMP PENDLETON (AP) — A Marine staff sergeant told military jurors that everyone looked up to Lawrence Hutchins III, his squad leader. Hutchins’ 11-year-old daughter said it was “sheer terror” to live...
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Jeb Bush Speaks At Reagan Library, Blasts Clinton For Iraq, ISIS
SIMI VALLEY (CBSLA.com) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Tuesday, discussing his strategy of attack against Democratic favorite...
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Arrest Of Iraqi Refugees On Terror-Related Charges Rekindles Immigration Debate
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — Two Iraqi-born men who came to the United States as refugees have been arrested on terrorism-related charges by federal authorities who allege one traveled to Syria to...
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Marine From Southern California Killed In Iraq
TEMECULA (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense says a coalition service member killed Saturday by enemy fire in northern Iraq was a Marine from Southern California. Officials say in a press release...
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Navy SEAL Killed In Iraq Identified As Charlie Keating IV, Grandson Of...
PHOENIX (AP) — The Navy SEAL killed in Iraq on Tuesday was identified as Charlie Keating IV, a former Phoenix high school star distance runner and the grandson of the late Arizona financier involved in...
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Local Veteran Reunited With Little Kitty He Left Behind In Iraq
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — CBS2’s cameras were rolling when a local veteran was reunited with the little kitty he had to leave behind in Iraq. As baggage handlers carried him to his old friend, the...
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State Capitol Flags Lowered In Honor Of Anaheim Sailor Killed In Iraq
ANAHEIM (CBSLA.com) — Gov. Jerry Brown ordered flags lowered to half-staff over the state capitol Monday in honor of Navy Chief Petty Officer Jason Finan, a Coronado-based explosives ordnance disposal...
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Pentagon Chief Suspends Reimbursement For Enlistment Bonuses Given To CA...
WASHINGTON (CBSLA.com/AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Wednesday ordered the Pentagon to suspend its effort to seek repayments of enlistment bonuses given to thousands of California National Guard...
View ArticlePowerful 7.3 Quake Along Iraq-Iran Border Kills At Least 130 People, 1K Injured
HALABIA, Iraq (CNN) — A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake Sunday in the Iraqi city of Halabja, close to the Iraq-Iran border, killed scores of people in Iran, Iranian officials said. State-run Press...
View ArticleRiverside Soldier Dies In Non-Combat Incident In Iraq
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — The Pentagon says a 20-year-old Riverside soldier has died in Iraq. Officials announced Monday that Cpl. Todd McGurn died Saturday of a “non-combat related incident” in Baghdad...
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WATCH: U.S. Soldier Reunites With Stray Dog Rescued In Iraq
TAMPA, FL (CBS Local) – A U.S. Army soldier has been reunited with a stray dog her unit rescued during their deployment to the Middle East. U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Tracy McKithern is a combat...
View ArticleU.S. Embassy In Iraq Attacked By Protesters Furious Over American Airstrikes
Baghdad — An estimated 6,000 angry Iraqi protesters gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, railing against deadly U.S. airstrikes this week that killed 25 fighters from an Iran-backed...
View ArticleQassem Soleimani, Head Of Iran’s Elite Military Force, Killed In Baghdad Air...
Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds military Force, was killed Thursday night in an airstrike in Baghdad. The U.S. Defense Department said late Thursday that the “decisive defensive action...
View ArticleTrump: US Killed Iranian General ‘To Stop A War’
President Trump says the U.S. is "ready and prepared" for any response after an Iranian general was killed "to stop a war".
View ArticleIran Vows Revenge For U.S. Killing Of Top Commander Qassem Soleimani
President Trump ordered an airstrike in Baghdad that killed Qassem Soleimani drawing a vow of "crushing revenge" from Iran. The State Department told Americans in Iraq to leave the country immediately,...
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Simi Valley Marine Killed During Iraq Mission
SIMI VALLEY (CBSLA) — A U.S. Marine from Simi Valley was killed during a mission in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense. (credit: Marine Forces, Special Operations Command) Gunnery Sgt. Diego...
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