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Month: February 2010

California Insurance Department Finds Blue Cross Violations

SACRAMENTO -California’s insurance regulator says his office has found more than 700 violations by Anthem Blue Cross, the state’s largest for-profit health provider. Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner says the violations include late payment of claims, giving misleading information to consumers and failing to cooperate with regulators. The Thousand Oaks-based company faces a maximum $10,000 penalty

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Bad Weather Delays Road Improvement Project

By News Channel 3newsline3@kesq.com PALM DESERT -Due to weather conditions, paving and striping improvements on Monterey Avenue at the intersections with Frank Sinatra and Gerald Ford Drives has been delayed one day. Therefore, construction of intersection paving will occur on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 thru Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Revised Intersection Paving Dates: Tuesday, February

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Ron Paul Wins Early Conservative Poll

WASHINGTON – Rep. Ron Paul won the most support for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in an unofficial straw poll of conservative activists attending an annual conference. A libertarian from Texas who has railed against spending and the Federal Reserve, Paul won the Saturday contest at the Conservative Political Action Conference with 31 percent backing.

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Governors Brace For More Economic Turmoil

WASHINGTON – The nation’s governors are on the recession’s front lines and they’re struggling to chart the road ahead. Their states are staggering from unrelenting joblessness and cut-to-the-bone budgets even as Washington reports signs of economic growth. Republican Jim Douglas of Vermont, chairman of the National Governors Association, says “the worst probably is yet to

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Deadly Crash Near Desert Hot Springs

NEAR DESERT HOT SPRINGS – The California Highway Patrol is investigating a deadly crash that happenedSaturday nightnear Desert Hot Springs. It happenedjust before 11:30 p.m.on Dillon and Langlois Road. That’s where officers say a pickup truck heading eastbound,wastraveling at a high rate of speed, when it swerved across the westbound lanes, flipping and hitting a

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Toyota Dealerships Hurting From Recalls

WASHINGTON – Some Toyota dealers are rattled by the company’s recall problems. Some dealerships nearly hired the crisis public relations firm that represented socialite Paris Hilton, singer Chris Brown – and a company that California has called the state’s worst inland polluter. Toyota is running a lobbying and advertising battle to protect its name. Meanwhile,

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Schwarzenegger Hits Back At GOP Opposed To Stimulus

WASHINGTON – California’s Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is hitting back at members of his party for attacking President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan. Schwarzenegger says last year’s $862 billion stimulus plan is “terrific” and has created 150,000 jobs in his state and says that Republicans who criticize the recovery measure while seeking stimulus dollars for

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