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P.G. Woman Arrested, Accomplice In Elder Abuse, Theft

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She and her partner bought cell phones, video games and a used VW with money allegedly stolen from grandmother.

Theodore Lopez and Pacific Grove resident Amanda Spears, both 22, were arrested Sunday on charges of elder abuse, identity theft, burglary, grand theft and conspiracy, and taken to Monterey County Jail.

After Rodriguez identified the suspects, deputies arrested Lopez in Marina and Spears in Pacific Grove, and booked them in to Monterey County Jail. While Monterey County Superior Court records indicate this is the first local case against Lopez, Spears appears in multiple files, including numerous traffic violations, two misdemeanor cases filed in June and September of 2009, and a lawsuit she filed Sept. 7 of this year.

P.G. Woman Arrested, Accomplice In Elder Abuse, Theft

Farmers Markets In L.A. Full Of Homegrown Lies

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“Farmers” selling produce bought from the same wholesale companies the supermarkets use, then rubbing dirt on them.

NBCLA bought one container of strawberries, from five different vendors, at five farmers markets, including a vendor called “The Berry Best,” at the Torrance farmers market.

NBCLA’s undercover shopper questioned the Berry Best’s owner about the strawberries:

“These are pesticide-free?”

Owner Mary Ellen Martinez responded, “Yes, they are.”

To see if that’s true, we took our five samples to a state-certified lab, and had them tested for pesticides.

Results showed three out of five samples we tested sold berries that did contain pesticides, including the sample from the Berry Best.

NBCLA went back to Martinez.

“We found four different pesticides in your berries. You don’t how that happened?” we asked.

Responded Martinez, “Nope.”

She later said pesticides might have drifted into her field from neighboring farms. But according to our lab, that’s unlikely because the pesticide level on her berries appears too high to have drifted from another farm.

Martinez ended the interview with NBCLA, telling us to leave her stand, “You’re getting on my nerves right about now.”

Farmers Markets In L.A. Full Of Homegrown Lies

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Raise A Glass To Slow News Week

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Here’s a couple of off topic beverage stories.

Over in France they can refill wine jugs just at the grocery from 1,000 liter wine tanks.
Wine Refill Tank

Keg wine and wine vending machines just got supersized: 500 and one-thousand liter tanks have landed in French supermarkets.

Bring your own resealable bottles, Poland Spring containers, jerrycans, whatever. Or you can get one at the store. Select your grade (red, white, or rosé). Pump. Print receipt.

Other side of the planet, Woody Smith of Kentucky claims caffeine defense in murder trial

In the weeks preceding May 4, 2009, Woody Smith told Noelker, he hadn’t been sleeping, in part out of fear his wife would take their two children and leave him.

Fleckinger said Smith found out his wife was having an affair with a co-worker. Sexton said knowledge of the affair led Smith to rely on caffeine and not sleep out of fear his wife would take the children and leave.

“The next several hours of Mr. Smith’s life, were described to me as if he were in a daze,” Noelker wrote in his report.

Final Foxtrot, Dance Studio Shuts Down

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Located above Pollaci’s liquor store.

It’s the last dance for Ingrid Tower and Shall We Dance, yet Tower is confronting the studio’s closure with the same grace her dancers have displayed for the past four years. There are no regrets, questions of ‘what if,’ and no finger-pointing. The simple truth is that post-recession, Tower’s studio could not sustain itself financially.

Final Foxtrot, Dance Studio Shuts Down

It’s Not Global Warming, Climate Change, Pollution, Fishermen or G.W. Bush Killing Otters

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Hungry Alien Sharks

Nature did.

The shark-bite attacks on otters are essentially “taste tests” made while hunting, Harris said.

“This would explain why the majority of the otters collected have a single bite mark,” he said. “These bites are more investigative.”

After a shark realizes an otter won’t make a good meal, they let go and move on, Harris said.

Shark attacks on otters are part of nature, Harris said, but they concern researchers who want to preserve healthy populations.

“It becomes complicated,” he said. “They are both protected species.”

It’s Not Global Warming, Climate Change, Pollution, Fishermen or G.W. Bush Killing Otters

City Council Cozies Up With PG$E On Smartmeters

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Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s SmartMeters are a fundamental part of building a smart power grid that will increase energy efficiency, improve service and cut costs, a spokesman for the utility told the Pacific Grove City Council on Wednesday.

The SmartMeter itself isn’t new, PG&E spokesman Andrew Tang said. It dates from the 1980s. What is new is the radio net that will report power usage.

Big Brother watching you. Bankrupt PG&E not willing to improve the energy delivery system but will instead automate it’s power grid to charge you more when the opportunity arises.

Not to mention put meter readers out of a job.

City Council In Bed With PG$E On Smartmeters

PG&E admits to flaws in some smart meters

Botched Smart Meter Roll Outs Provoking Consumer Backlash

P.G. Cops Arrest Salinas Cop For Child Molesting

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Blame the victim. It works for Dave Stamm.

Lance M. Mosher, 44, was arrested Tuesday on two counts of lewd acts with a minor and penetration with a foreign object, police said.

Mosher is accused of committing the acts in 2007, police said.

The complaint stemmed from a prior complaint by an unnamed individual and the acts were committed while Mosher was living in Pacific Grove, authorities said.

Mosher’s attorney, Juliet Peck, said the teen accusing her client of molestation may have a mental illness, which could explain the allegations.

P.G. Cops Arrest Salinas Cop For Child Molesting

City Council Candidates In Lock Step On Issues

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Same old blah blah blah. More taxes, change the tree policy, high cost desalinization, more development.

As the date comes near, I’ll be asking some tougher questions such as where they stand on the chicken control issue.

Four candidates for three four-year terms on the Pacific Grove City Council showed few areas of disagreement at a forum Tuesday at Chautauqua Hall that drew an audience of 50.

Incumbent Councilmen Ken Cuneo and Alan Cohen, and challengers Rudolph Fischer and Richard Ahart Jr., who will face off in the Nov.2 municipal election, answered written questions submitted by the audience on a number of city issues.

City Council Candidates In Lock Step On Issues