Word: california
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Razo, who insisted that he "didn't fit" at Harvard, was found guilty on six counts of armed robbery this summer by an Orange County, California jury. A county judge later sentenced him to 10 years and four months in jail for the crimes, which occurred during breaks from his freshperson and sophomore years...
Barnett said he filed an official notice of appeal on September 6. If the California Court of Appeals reverses the decision, Razo will be-re-tried. He still faces trial in connection with three additional robberies in Los Angeles County...
...short time, Newton seemed to embody the spirit of ghetto uplift that the Panthers preached. After serving time in a celebrated case involving the shooting of an Oakland policeman, he earned a doctorate from the University of California. But after J. Edgar Hoover's FBI targeted the group, many of his fellow Panther leaders were killed, jailed or driven underground, and Newton's life returned to its meaner roots. Charges of murder and assault led to conviction for possessing a gun. There followed a string of drug offenses, drunk driving and embezzling $15,000 from a Panther-operated school...
...California motorists have been looking forward to auto-insurance refunds since November, when voters passed an initiative calling for a 20% cut in premiums for property and casualty coverage. But their anticipation turned to anger last week, when State Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie declared that most Californians are "not going to get lower auto-insurance rates" as a result of the initiative...
Once a laid-back California pastime, the seaside game goes major league with six-figure earnings for pro players and a televised schedule of tournaments...