Drug Dealer Lives In Home Searched In Missing Fox Executive Case - Latimes.com

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A man who lives at the West Hills home searched in connection with the disappearance of Gavin Smith said Thursday he had never met the missing 20th Century Fox executive.

John Creech lives at the home along with his wife, Chandrika Creech, who is listed in public records as the property owner. Chandrika Creech met Smith in therapy, according to a source familiar with the case who did not want to be named because the investigation is ongoing.

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Reform Advocates Say Fate of Romney's Candidacy 'Could Hang in the Balance' With Thursday Speech to Latinos

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Indians complete sweep of Reds

By TOM WITHERS

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 10:25 p.m. ET June 20, 2012

CLEVELAND (AP) - Swept in Cincinnati last week, the Indians came home and returned the favor.

Justin Masterson finished off the Reds - completely.

Masterson pitched a three-hitter for his first complete game this season and the AL Central-leading Cleveland Indians capped off a three-game sweep with an 8-1 win Wednesday night.

Masterson (4-6) took a shutout into the eighth before the Reds ended the right-hander's streak of consecutive scoreless innings at 18. He did not walk a batter and struck out nine, including the side in the ninth, for his fourth career complete game. Cincinnati's only run was unearned.

"He was just terrific," Indians manager Manny Acta said. "He pounded the strike zone with that heavy sinker. It was going down like a bowling ball."

Asdrubal Cabrera hit a three-run homer and Johnny Damon hit a two-run shot in the fifth inning off Bronson Arroyo (3-5). Lonnie Chisenhall added three RBIs for the Indians, who played poorly while losing three in a row last week in southern Ohio, but have turned things around to move back atop their division.

"We're a resilient team," said Masterson, who became the first Cleveland pitcher to record a complete game at home since 2010. "I think we'll be able to carry this momentum on the road and have a lot of fun with it."

It was the first time the Reds and Indians had faced each other as first-place teams since 1999, and Masterson made sure Cleveland came out on top.

The Reds did not get a runner to second against Masterson until the eighth. Cabrera booted Jay Bruce's leadoff grounder to shortstop and Todd Frazier doubled with one out. Willie Harris followed with an RBI groundout, the first run given up by Masterson since June 9 in St. Louis - a career-best 18 innings.

Masterson capped the ninth by getting the dangerous Joey Votto to look at strike three, an exclamation point on his dominant performance.

"There was a little fire there," Masterson said. "I wanted to close it out."

Reds manager Dusty Baker knew Masterson was capable of shutting down his team.

"When he's on, he's very tough," Baker said, "and he was on tonight. His ball was moving everywhere."

Masterson's record may not show it, but he's been one of Cleveland's most consistent starters.

This was his fourth straight quality outing, and for a change, the Indians gave him some run support. He had received two or fewer runs in his previous eight starts and the Indians were averaging just 2.95 runs per nine innings for him, the worst support in the AL and fourth-lowest in the majors.

He was grateful for the runs, but was just as pleased for his teammates.

"It's nice for them, too," he said. "It makes them feel good. I think sometimes they wear themselves out when they're not scoring as many runs for me or anybody. It's nice to have a game where we score quite a few and win it easily."

Other than hitting Chris Heisey with a pitch in the first inning, Masterson was in complete control of the Reds.

He didn't give up a hit until the fourth when Heisey pulled a single down the third-base line past Jack Hannahan, who was playing up on the infield grass and couldn't reach it with a backhand dive. Votto singled in the seventh and Frazier's double were all Cincinnati could muster against Masterson.

"It was as good as it gets," Acta said.

Masterson got some defensive help when catcher Lou Marson gunned down Heisey in the fourth and right fielder Shin-Soo Choo raced back to snag Scott Rolen's drive in the fifth.

After letting Arroyo off the hook in the first three innings, the Indians tagged him for five runs in the fourth as Damon and Cabrera homered.

Damon, who came in batting just .190 but has been making contributions on and off the field, connected for his third homer to make it 2-0.

Casey Kotchman singled with one out before the 38-year-old Damon drove a 2-2 pitch over the wall in right. Damon, who missed all of training camp before signing with the Indians on April 17, has been showing signs of busting out of a prolonged slump. He's batting .295 (13 for 44) in his past 16 games.

"It's encouraging to see it." Acta said of Damon. "He got off to a very slow start and I know that a lot of people are going to keep looking at the batting average and stuff, but I can point out at least five games over the last 10 days where Johnny has had something to do with us winning the ballgame."

Chisenhall walked for the first time in 57 at-bats this season, and Choo drew a two-out walk to bring up Cabrera, whose two-run, walk-off homer against closer Aroldis Chapman won Tuesday's game. Cabrera fell behind 0-2 before hitting his eighth homer, a shot over the wall in right-center.

Arroyo was charged with five runs and eight hits in four innings - his shortest outing this season. The right-hander has just one win in his last eight starts.

The Indians went up 8-0 in the seventh when they loaded the bases off Alfredo Simon and Chisenhall laced a double into the right-field corner.

Notes: Votto has hit safely in nine straight games and 24 of 25. In that span, he's batting .484 (44 of 91) with six homers and 17 RBIs. ... Browns QB Brandon Weeden threw out the ceremonial first pitch. ... Reds 2B Brandon Phillips' hopes of being credited with an inside-the-park homer were denied by Major League Baseball. Phillips had appealed a ruling in Monday's game, when he was given an RBI double on a ball that skipped past left fielder Damon, who was charged with a two-base error. ... Indians DH Travis Hafner took batting practice the past two days and is moving toward a return from knee surgery. Hafner still needs to run and will likely go on a rehab assignment before being activated. ... Both teams are off Thursday. The Indians begin a three-game series in Houston on Friday while the Reds will host Minnesota.

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The 84-year-old earlier suffered a stroke and was transferred to hospital from prison where he has been held since he was sentenced to life over the murder of protesters.

Speaking from Cairo in Egypt, Sky's Middle East correspondent Emma Hurd, said: "It is still a confusing picture.

Mubarak was ill throughout his trial

"First of all we had this report from MENA, which is the official Egyptian state news agency, saying Hosni Mubarak's heart had stopped, that they had tried to defibrillate him, that did not work, and then he was declared 'clinically dead'.

"But that has been followed up by other reports quoting security sources, saying that he is actually unconscious in hospital at the moment, he's been transferred from prison to a military hospital and he is on a respirator, unable to breathe by himself.

"Those security sources are saying that it is too early to declare him 'clinically dead'."

The official MENA news agency had reported that Mubarak was "clinically dead" after "his heart had stopped beating and did not respond to defibrillation".

But security sources said he was "unconscious and on a respirator".

His health has fluctuated since the end of his trial, with doctors defibrillating him twice on June 11.

He has reportedly suffered acute depression, as well as periodic increases in blood pressure and shortness of breath.

Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment earlier this month after he was convicted for complicity in the murder of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power.

The ex-dictator, said to be too sick by his doctors for a jail cell, had been held in a luxury medical suite at a military hospital throughout the court proceedings.

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Reports of his death came as thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square against the military's move to grant itself sweeping powers.

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Sky's Emma Hurd added: "I have to say a ripple of celebration went through the crowd in Tahrir Square gathered to protest against military rule here, and calls for a swift handover to the new president, once he's elected, once the results are known here.

"So there was a feeling of celebration initially. Now there's a bit more confusion about what's going on," she added.

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Voyager 1 to become first man-made object to leave solar system (+video)

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now poised to become the first craft to enter interstellar space.

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a new environment more than 11 billion miles from Earth, suggesting that the venerable probe is on the cusp of leaving the solar system.

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The Voyager 1 probe has entered a region of space with a markedly higher flow of charged particles from beyond our solar system, researchers said. Mission scientists suspect this increased flow indicates that the spacecraft ? currently 11.1 billion miles (17.8 billion kilometers) from its home planet ? may be poised to cross the boundary into interstellar space.

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Carrying placards with the slogan 'Freedom of Choice, Give us a Voice', more than 100 off-duty ambulance workers have called to be permitted to seek industry-specific industrial representation.

Currently paramedics can call on only the HSU as their official union representatives.

However, as the union has become engulfed in scandal in recent years, many ambulance workers have ended their membership and joined the fledgling Emergency Medical Service Protection Association (EMSPA).

But EMPSA spokesman Wayne Flint says that because the union is not industrially registered paramedics have been left without a voice.

'The HSU is a problem, we don't want to be a part of it,' Mr Flint told reporters on Tuesday.

'We haven't had good representation from the HSU in our view, and paramedics as the most trusted profession deserve a voice.'

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