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• The number of San Diego County homes slipping toward foreclosure dropped by 14 percent in the third quarter of the year, compared to the same period in 2010, a real estate information service reported today.
Lenders sent default notices to 5,048 homeowners in San Diego County in the third quarter, down from last year's third-quarter total of 5,869, according to La Jolla-based MDA DataQuick.
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• A man convicted of the financially motivated robbery and strangulation death of his 73-year-old grandmother in her Alpine mobile home was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Brandon Hayes, 29, was convicted in August of first-degree murder, and jurors found true the special circumstance allegations of murder committed in the course of a robbery and burglary in the May 16, 2009, death of Eunice Cothron.
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Hayes' friend, 22-year-old Jeffrey Carl Reed, was convicted of the same charges and will be sentenced Nov. 1. Reed also faces life in prison without parole.
Prosecutor Kurt Mechals said the defendants, both drug addicts, wanted money and forced their way into Cothron's home, strangled her, then robbed her before partying on the proceeds.
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