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El Centro, California is located in Imperial County. Zip codes in El Centro, CA include 92244, and 92243. More El Centro information.

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Saturday | Los Angeles Times

Earthquake: 3.0 quake strikes near Salton Sea

A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday morning three miles from Niland east of the Salton Sea, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Fri Feb 10, 2012

The Toronto Star

Top Gun Prince Harry right on target for return to Afghanistan

In this handout image provided by the Ministry of Defence, EX Crimson Eagle Capt.

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Thu Feb 09, 2012

The Wichita Eagle

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A stray dog runs on frozen Danube waters, startled by an ice breaker in Giurgiu, southern Romania, Wednesday, Feb.

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Calgary Herald

Prince Harry set for Afghanistan return

The signs Canada's population was shifting west were evident long before Statistics Canada released its 2011 census, and most of them read: Help Wanted.

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Wed Feb 08, 2012

The Campbell Reporter

Prince Harry qualifies as Apache helicopter pilot

OCTOBER 25: El Centro, California before moving to Gila Bend in Arizona for the live firing phase.

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Tue Feb 07, 2012

The San Diego Union-Tribune

El Centro man kills mountain lion, pays $500 fine

U-T San Diego reports bow hunter Bruce Rucker was hunting deer when he says the lion approached him with its ears pinned back and a fixed stare.

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Sacramento Bee Newspaper

El Centro man kills mountain lion, pays $500 fine

An El Centro man says he didn't want to kill a mountain lion while he was hunting deer in the Laguna Mountains but the animal appeared ready to pounce on him.

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Thu Feb 02, 2012

Mirror.co.uk

Deadly spider stows away on Royal Navy helicopter

Two Royal Navy engineers came up against an unusual deadly enemy - a black widow spider which had stowed away on their helicopter.

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The Wave

O.C-L.A. 4th in U.S. for 2011 jobs

The Orange County-Los Angeles area ranked fourth in job growth among 372 metropolitan areas last year, reports the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Wed Feb 01, 2012

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Magnitude-3.4 quake in Southern Calif. desert

The U.S. Geological Survey says in a computer-generated report that Wednesday's 11:05 a.m. quake was centered four miles south of Brawley and nine miles north of El Centro.

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Los Angeles Times

Earthquake: 3.4 quake strikes near Brawley

A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning four miles from Brawley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Business Journal

Washington area ties Minneapolis for lowest jobless rate

The Washington area's December unemployment rate rose to 5.5 percent, from 5.4 percent in November, but it still ties Minneapolis for the lowest unemployment rate among big cities in the nation.

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Newsday

Black widows found in aircraft

Venomous black widow spiders have been found by Royal Navy engineers working on an aircraft that had recently returned to the UK from California.

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Fri Jan 27, 2012

AVweb

Border Patrol: Planes Used to Smuggle Immigrants

Pilots have begun using small aircraft to smuggle illegal immigrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to inland airports, according to authorities who last week seized a Cessna from a Southern California airport and brought charges against one pilot.

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Russia Taday

Hungry and poor in the Big Apple

One-year-old Estefani is stroked by her mother who relies on a monthly food handout from the Imperial Valley Food Bank through the Sister Evelyn Mourey Center for her and four children in El Centro, California One-in-five children in the US are currently living in poverty.

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Thu Jan 26, 2012

The Fresno Bee

Local: Suspect in Mendota killings to get trial

A 24-year-old man who allegedly shot and killed two brothers and wounded three others in Mendota was ordered held for trial Wednesday after a preliminary hearing in Fresno County Superior Court.

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Tue Jan 24, 2012

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Border Patrol says illegal crossers boarded plane

The pilot was apparently trying to avoid Border Patrol checkpoints on highways that run through California's Imperial Valley, said Ricardo Sandoval, regional agent in charge of investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Centro.

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Sunset Magazine

Playa Los Arcos Worldclass Beach Resort

My travel buddy Samantha is thinking about becoming a mom, so we planned a final girls' getaway before parenting makes trips more complicated.

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Mon Jan 23, 2012

Daily Kos

My first experience with the US Border Patrol

Around 1970-1972 I used to visit the local USBP Detention Center. I was a grade school student and my friends and I would ride our bicycles from our town, Imperial California, El Centro had fast food, shopping malls, large parks and many other attractions that people our age could enjoy on a warm summer day.

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Wed Jan 18, 2012

Desert Sun

4.1 quake hits northern Baja California

A 4.1-magnitude earthquake was recorded early Wednesday in northern Baja California, according to a computer-generated report from the U.S. Geological Survey.

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