Tips to avoid pothole disaster

You’re driving along enjoying winter’s thaw, and out of nowhere a pothole seemingly attacks your car. Winter weather’s freezing cycles can take a toll on asphalt, and potholes are the result. This can cause bumpy spring driving for even the most cautious drivers. This pothole season follow some insider tips so you can keep your tires in great shape and enjoy smooth sailing down the roads.

Spirit Airlines offers $9 flights from L.A. to Las Vegas

Discounter Spirit Airlines has decided to jump into the already-crowded market to Southern California by announcing it will launch five-a-day flights to Los Angeles International Airport in May.

Marijuana grow houses sprouting in Las Vegas Valley

Grow houses — locations in rural, urban and residential areas converted for growing marijuana – are cropping up in record numbers in the Las Vegas Valley and bringing unwanted criminal activity.

Castro passes 100,000 Twitter followers

HAVANA — Cuba’s Maximum Leader is also on top in cyberspace. A Twitter account that tweets excerpts from former President Fidel Castro’s frequent musings on world affairs has passed 100,000 followers – which the government says makes it the first official Cuban-themed Twitter account to break that threshold.

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Without ‘Men,’ is Charlie Sheen winning or losing?

LOS ANGELES — Consider two parallel universes: Charlie Sheen is destined to hit rock bottom after being fired from the best job he’ll ever have; Charlie Sheen has been freed to blaze a new path to dazzling fame and riches. Speculation about the dueling scenarios swelled after Warner Bros. Television said Monday that Sheen’s services on “Two and a Half Men” had been terminated.

Underwater mortgages rise as home prices fall

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth rose at the end of last year, preventing many people from selling their homes in an already weak housing market. CoreLogic says about 11.1 million households, or 23.1 percent of all mortgaged homes, were underwater in the October-December quarter. That’s up from 22.5 percent, or 10.8 million households, in the July-September quarter.

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