Issue: July 01, 2010
The biggest mortgage scam Chico ever saw
The story is fit for a movie and involves a well-known local builder, $21 million, a couple fleeing the country and a mixed-martial-arts cage fighter. You have to read it to believe it.
In other news: The Chico PD helps the homeless find home; a Fourth of July recipe-fest; and Arts DEVO announces the Chico Performances fall lineup.
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Web of deception
How greed drove Chico’s biggest developer to commit multimillion-dollar fraud.
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Second chances
Chico Police Department program reunites homeless with loved ones.
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Kittens flood shelter
Adoptions and foster families aren’t enough to meet demand.
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Come back, students!
Chico business owners brace for an unprecedented decline in Chico State students.
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Health insurance woes
City of Chico retirees hit hardest by city’s rate increase.
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No go, Boys & Girls
Just one school chooses to contract with the club for the next school year.
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Dispensaries busted
More than 100 officers serve search warrants on eight alleged storefront operations.
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Truancy case not finished yet
Glenn County’s outgoing DA vows to pursue forgery charges against parents.
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Recession takes a slice out of retirement
People dipping into savings to pay household bills.
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Understanding the green economy
New survey gives meaning to the jargon surrounding California’s environmental workforce.
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Judge melts oil-drilling freeze
Federal judge calls six-month freeze on deepwater drilling “invalid.”
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Red Sea oil spill kept quiet
Egyptian government officials remain tight-lipped about oil spill along coast.
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Feds fail to protect rare species
Center for Biological Diversity announces plans to sue federal wildlife officials.
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Oompa-loompas, baked beans and Farmer John
Celebrate 4th of July with homemade baked beans and great movies.
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Bite on this
Natural insect repellants that don’t contain DEET.
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Israel eases its siege
Disastrous attack on aid flotilla forces reassessment of policy.
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Get moving on shelter
Grand Jury report underlines its ‘appalling’ condition.
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Health first, for kids’ sake
Let’s curb the obesity epidemic by making it easier to buy local, healthful.
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Letters for July 1, 2010
Our always-sharp readers let us know what they think.
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She’s a survivor
Lea Wagner spreads the word about inflammatory breast cancer.
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Can the news be saved?
Like other newspapers, the Chico E-R is struggling to live with the Internet.
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Public-art giant
Gregg Payne unveils new huge public sculpture.
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Béla Fleck/Zakir Hussain/Edgar Meyer
Bela Fleck teams up with Hussain, Meyer and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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Red, white and green
Dip into California’s crop for your Fourth of July celebrations.
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The crew is back together
Grown Ups offers up an SNL reunion without the wacky humor.
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Knight and Day
A quick and easy nugget of film goodness or badness.
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