homeowners' daughter, Claire Knowlton, who lives in a smaller house on the property, heard what sounded like a gun blast. 'I heard something like a gun shot, then sounds like fourth of July sparklers. I saw the house full of flames. I ran in and

By KATHY CANO MURILLO Gannett News Service I'm into 'crafty lit' -- juicy novels that have characters who paint, bead, knit or sew.These days, I'm toting around 'The Friday Night Knitting Club' by Kate Jacobs (Putnam Adult, 2007, $22.95 hardback). The

10 local cultural festivals, recognizing it as the nation's best bullfighting event. Spurred on by this recognition, Cheongdo Gun and Cheongodo bullfighting association have worked together to offer various events, such as inviting Japanese fighting

of foreclosure action in the last quarter of 2006 alone. Add it up, and it is possible to paint a picture of catastrophe in the making. Jim Rogers, this column's favourite out-of-consensu s investment guru, did precisely that yesterday. Mr Rogers, who

conducting an undercover investigation at a strip club, believed Bell and his friends were going to retrieve a gun from a car after overhearing them argue with another patron. No gun was found. Guzman, Benefield and Nicole Paultre Bell, who was to marry

other hate symbols painted throughout a south Lake Elsinore neighborhood.Th roughout the eight-month process, city officials have tried to paint a picture of the extent of the graffiti problem, for which Lake Elsinore budgets $90,000 a year to address.

committed a firearms crime, but they were not told that it was illegal for Padilla to own the gun because he was an illegal immigrant. Carpenter did not want the jury to be biased against Padilla because of his immigrant status. Padilla's attorneys,