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Ventura County gets pro football franchise --- for three weeks

7/24/2008 9:39am    Download MP3  

Los Angeles still doesn't have a pro football team, but for the next three weeks...Oxnard will be home for one of the N-F-L's most popular franchises. The Dallas Cowboys will hold their annual summer training camp in Oxnard.



Popular beach faces controversy over plans for new facilities

7/23/2008 9:56am    Download MP3  

Plans for a lifeguard tower, and restrooms at a South Coast beach have created a riptide of controversy, because of concerns about how the new complex would affect homeowners views. Ventura County supervisors made a final decision on the long simmering issue.



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U.S. Approach To 'Axis Of Evil' Shifts   

The Bush administration is now talking to governments it once shunned. The secretary of state met with the North Korean foreign minister this week; the undersecretary participated in talks with Iran's nuclear negotiator last weekend. The new approach has angered critics, but it doesn't extend to all "problem countries."

MS Patient Falls Into American Insurance Gap   

After he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Jeff Rubin of Philadelphia went bankrupt paying for his medical bills. Would that happen in England? Both the U.S. and the U.K. ration health care. A look at patient experiences on either side of the Atlantic.

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