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Panetta conducts ‘oversight tour’ at ICE detention center

August 1 — REP. JIMMY Panetta last week visited California’s largest detention facility for undocumented immigrants to witness firsthand how the 1,600 prisoners are being treated. There, he spoke to ACLU attorneys to ensure detainees were being afforded due process, sat in on a court hearing for a Central American citizen, and was shown where inmates live and what they’re fed ... Read More

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P.G. plane crash devastates business, families

August 1 — THE THREE men who died in a plane crash in Pacific Grove Saturday night while returning from a scuba diving trip off the coast of Cuba are being remembered this week as adventurous and kind souls who were the heart of the Monterey Peninsula diving community ... Read More

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Staff: Complaints about Pastor project unwarranted

July 31 — IN AN 18-page report, senior Carmel planner Evan Kort systematically dismantles each of the arguments made by a group of nearly a dozen residents who filed objections to the planning commission’s April approval of Patrice Pastor’s residential/commercial complex on Dolores south of Seventh ... Read More

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Mental health in question for man accused of stabbing wife to death

July 31 — THE MAN who told a 911 operator early last Thursday morning that he’d just killed his wife of 58 years — and who had apparently tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself — may not be mentally fit to stand trial, a defense attorney argued during 79-year-old Donel Geisen’s arraignment Tuesday ... Read More

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