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Covers:  campaign finance, organized crime, california politics, southwest border, university of california research ethics, military contracting, human subject research, medical ethics, drug war
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Tiki said to hell with it. Let's party.

Tiki said to hell with it. Let's party.

Maybe Tiki god was out of sorts that day, May 14, 1955. Wigwam, a 30-kiloton atomic explosion set off in the …

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The Kennedy assassination's last insider

The Kennedy assassination's last insider

It is early fall 2013. Almost 50 years have passed since the killings of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswal…

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Nathan Fletcher's Untold Stories

Nathan Fletcher's Untold Stories

It is June 2011, and Nathan Fletcher, a 34-year-old California assemblyman and candidate for mayor of San Die…

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The Rise and Fall of the Copley Press

The Rise and Fall of the Copley Press

When Ira Clifton Copley of Aurora, Illinois, first saw San Diego on a trip with his ailing brother to the Hot…

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Come to Romney Country

Come to Romney Country

Related to the presidential candidate by blood and religion; each traveling separate roads. On a sultry day i…

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Why Would the FBI Give $223 Million to This Man?

Why Would the FBI Give $223 Million to This Man?

He is the man who helped build a greater part of Las Vegas with millions of dollars from Jimmy Hoffa's mobbed…

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Vanity Fair on the San Diego trail of Andrew Cunanan I did finally get to the drug dealers that supplied him with the crystal-meth Gay Pride parade, Hillcrest, 1997.
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When Ira Clifton Copley of Aurora, Illinois, first saw San Diego on a trip with his ailing brother to the Hotel del Coronado in 1891, it was a dingy town on the southern fringe of California, a quick stopover on runs to the Mexican border, a bordello-filled paradise for Pacific Fleet sailors, a dead end for the railroad, a place of palm trees, whitewashed wood-frame cottages, and a blinding sun. San Diego Union building, 4th Street, south of Broadway, 1872 Copley himself was no shrinking violet.
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San Diegans who married into money Joan Kroc's personal life was more colorful than Helen Copley's four of the city's most powerful women made their way to the top after marrying local captains of commerce and industry. "Your wife has an ownership interest of approximately 11 percent in the Miracle Recreation Company, a Missouri company which designs, manufactures, and sells playground equipment.
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