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This horror is not an uncommon sight in the Northern San Joaquin Valley, where foreclosure rates are among the highest in the nation, and vacant properties - so tempting to vagrants - flourish...
...park on the north side of town to a mangy wreck near the airport where a collection of cats and dogs were found chained together in the yard, abandoned residences are putting a blight on all types of neighborhoods. "We get about six to ten calls a day on vacant homes," says police officer John McGill, who stresses that this isn't just a problem in the poorer parts of town...
Lippert, along with police officers McGill and Amy Bublak, make up the city's health unit, which takes care of vacant home problems. Burglaries are up 26% in Modesto since a year ago, and the officers say this has to do with the relentless assaults on foreclosed homes. "We're seeing a shift in crimes," Bublak says, noting that people used to just steal property from the outside. Now, in addition to vandalizing the property, stripping its bones and using the yard as a dumping ground, thieves have zeroed in on the homes' utilities. "Forty percent of foreclosed homes...
Harvard continued to test new rotations, as the Crimson continues its attempt to fill the outside hitter position left vacant after senior Jordan Weitzen was sidelined by a concussion. Currently, junior Jeff Nathan and freshman Daniel Medina have been substituting for Weitzen, and have stepped into the role rather smoothly. Last night, Nathan nailed eight kills, and Medina secured a hitting percentage...
...sobering vision of a country moving from the unifying emotion and tears of 9/11 to a much less galvanizing involvement in a “war based on lies.” The consequences are starkly depicted: a domestic tableau riven by a young veteran’s vacant manner and a society that’s wrung-out, disillusioned and distant. “Everyone I call up doesn’t have the time to chat,” Crow wearily relates. “Everyone is so busy doing this or doing that.”From...