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• TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The Christie administration withheld millions of dollars in Superstorm Sandy recovery grants from a New Jersey city because its mayor refused to sign off on a politically connected commercial development, the mayor said Saturday.
• Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer alleged that Gov. Chris Christie's lieutenant governor and a top community development official told her recovery funds would flow to her city if she allowed the project to move forward.
• Zimmer said Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno pulled her aside at an event in May and told her Sandy aid was tied to the project -- a proposal from the New York City-based Rockefeller Group aimed at prime real estate in the densely populated city across the river from New York City.
• The Democratic mayor said the Republican administration officials wanted Rockefeller's plans for the property approved, while Zimmer said she preferred to go through normal channels and hear from all stakeholders, including the public and owners of adjacent property. Rockefeller Group owns about three blocks of the 19-block area.
• "I was directly told the by the lieutenant governor -- she made it very clear -- that the Rockefeller project needed to move forward or they wouldn't be able to help me," Zimmer told The Associated Press.
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• GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of residents who fled a wildfire in the suburbs of Los Angeles returned home Saturday as red-flag warnings of extremely dangerous fire conditions expired, but officials say that bone-dry winter conditions remain a threat for the region.
• The last wave of evacuees in the Azusa neighborhood known as Mountain Cove, about 25 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, were allowed to return home Saturday evening.
• "It's exhilarating ... very thankful (to the firefighters) for saving our community,"

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