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Program offers counseling, credit help, resources.

Hundreds of people call the No Homeowner Left Behind hotline each month and speak to one of 20 counselors trained to help families facing foreclosure.

The goal is to save a family's house or, barring that, preserve what equity is available or steer households to other resources. The program, a grass-roots effort based in Fresno -- and an increasing number of others like it -- could possibly help thousands more families in the central San Joaquin Valley facing similar situations, experts say.

Depending on whom you ask, livestock farms house healthy, contented animals or dirty, little secrets.

Producers of beef, eggs and other products are defending their industries against accusations from animal-rights groups, some armed with undercover video cameras.

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