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Desai legal fees leave little for ex-patients

Dr. Dipak Desai, the bankrupt gastroenterologist at the heart of the hepatitis C outbreak, has piled up $2.4 million in legal fees that are cutting deep into the dwindling assets left for his creditors, including the thousands of former patients suing him.

Gunman gets maximum sentence in slaying

Lionel Collins III, 21, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years to life in prison for the 2009 Thanksgiving Day slaying of McClain Kenton Zornes, 19, outside a northwest valley CVS Pharmacy.

ACORN pleads guilty to felony compensation for registration of voters

The grass-roots community organizing group ACORN on Wednesday entered a guilty plea to one count of felony compensation for registration of voters. The organization, which is in Chapter 7 bankruptcy, faces a maximum $5,000 fine.

Police hope checkpoints find rapper’s killer

Wearing his late nephew’s high school varsity jacket, Ron Portaro stood Wednesday night in a parking lot on North Tenaya Way where the 22-year-old was gunned down and where police planned to conduct voluntary traffic checkpoints in a search for witnesses.