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Margaret Jones' memoir, Love and Consequences, recounts her early days selling drugs in South Central Los Angeles as well as her eventual escape to college and publishing. If it sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. The story is just the latest in a string of frauds that have rocked the publishing industry.

A San Francisco suburb that has been hit hard by the sagging housing market is on the verge of going broke. Officials in Vallejo, Calif., will decide whether to declare bankruptcy this week, as they face big increases for police and fire protection — and sagging tax revenues.

As Russians vote in their Presidential election Sunday, current President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is the all-but-certain winner. But opposition leaders condemn the vote as a Soviet-style ritual that could leave Putin holding on to power from behind the scenes.

Russia will soon have a new president, and it appears it will be Dmitri Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor. Analyst Masha Lipman of the Moscow Carnegie Center says that despite recent liberal-sounding rhetoric, Medvedev will likely maintain the status quo.

Ohio's vote in Tuesday's primary will be crucial, but there could be a delay in getting results. The state is making major changes in the way its residents cast ballots, especially in its most populous county, Cuyahoga. The county is instituting an optical scan paper ballot system, rather than using electronic voting machines.

California's employment picture has been soured by the housing meltdown. Jobs are being lost in construction and in financial services. Rachael Myrow reports for member station KQED in San Francisco.

In the hours leading up to the March 4 contests in four states, the presidential candidates are concentrating their efforts on the delegate-rich state of Texas, wooing a dizzying array of voting blocs — from Hispanics to women to veterans to the working class.

Police in Bangkok, Thailand, arrest Viktor Bout, an international arms dealer, on Thursday. Doug Farah, an investigative journalist, talks to Melissa Block about the man accused of trading arms all over the world — often to both sides of the same conflict simultaneously.

Two days after the Texas primary and caucus, the winner is still unclear. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but Barack Obama is leading in the count in the caucus.

The nation lost 63,000 jobs in February, the first time jobs have dropped two months in a row since 2003. We hear from people in Michigan, one of the hardest hit states, about what it's like to be unemployed and what they're doing to get back on track.