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A California parking enforcement officer issuing tickets walked up to a man video recording him Wednesday and snatched his camera, telling him to “get that camera out of my face.” Nevada City parking enforcement officer Jack Ward then walked away with the phone as Tony Loro tried to take his phone back.

COLUMBIA - A judge has ruled that a collection of rare, Civil War-era letters belong to South Carolina rather than the man who has had them in his family for generations. The state sued after Charleston resident Thomas Willcox tried to auction off the letters. Willcox, a descendant of Confederate Gen. Evander Law, filed for bankruptcy soon after. The collection includes more than 440 letters detailing life in South Carolina between 1861 and 1863. Many letters are correspondence between generals or the Confederate government and S.C. Govs. Francis Pickens and Milledge Bonham during the Civil War. Three are written by...

The city of Las Vegas and Clark County are proceeding properly in their separate investigations of double-dipping by employees who are also members of the Legislature. The issue arose with Assemblyman Wendell Williams, an employee of the city. It has expanded to include Williams' immediate supervisor at the city, Sharon Segerblom, and two employees of Clark County, Assemblyman Kelvin Atkinson and Assemblywoman Kathy McClain. While serving in the 2003 Legislature, Williams put in for and received regular pay from the city that exceeded the hours he actually worked, an investigation by the Las Vegas city manager's office determined. He...