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Letters to the editor: Boyle Heights, Steve Zimmer, circumcisionTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:05PMThank you for Tom Tugend’s nostalgic article on Boyle Heights (“The Nickel Pickle,” July 15). Although I was born in Boyle Heights in 1928, we moved away to “upscale West Adams” when I was a few years old.

A teaching moment from a scam reportTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:10PMWhat are we to make of a recent report in The Citizen that a 78-year-old woman had been scammed out of $4,000? It seems she was approached at the Fayette Pavilion by two women who, under pretense of obtaining reimbursement for an alleged flat tire repair to her car, drove her to the bank where she withdrew the cash and handed it to them. A lot of people would simply buy this story, and of course ...

Injured siblings recall harrowing attackTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:46PMSitting close to each other on a couch in their living room Saturday, Valerie Robinson and her brother Nicholas Dloughy said they were grateful for each other and were happy to be alive.

Accused thief waives preliminary hearing in Montgomery Twp. (video)Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:03PMMONTGOMERY TWP. — Andrew Gordon, the Virginia man accused of thefts from cars in Montgomery, Upper Gwynedd and Hilltown Townships, waived his preliminary hearing on the two Montgomery County incidents Tuesday.

Kenya: The Car That Killed ObamaTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:14AMThe green 1981 Chevrolet LUV pick-up in Homa Bay looks like an ordinary 30-year-old workhorse that has seen better days. Yet the pick-up holds stories and secrets that its present owner Joseph Owili Ongei will never know. It was the car in which Barack Hussein Obama Senior met his death on a cold night in December 1982.

Cerabino: Office Depot's thanks for county tax cuts? Sending 80 jobs overseasMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:40PMCerabino: Office Depot's thanks for county tax cuts? Sending 80 jobs overseas

JOHN BOGERT: Son's free-lance car wash idea a throwback to a different eraMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:47PMMy lanky 17-year-old high school senior was lamenting the absence of cash in his Wells Fargo learners ATM account. "I'm down to $10," he said, studying a bank statement custom-designed to transform him into a capitalist tool. "I need a job."

Advance woman wins $200,000 a year for life in state lotteryMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:45PMPaula Graham of Advance had a premonition two months ago that she would win a big prize in the state lottery. She was right.

Advance woman wins lifelong lottery prizeMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:45PMPaula Graham of Advance had a premonition two months ago that she would win a big prize in the state lottery. She was right.