Here are the stories keeping our reporters busy this Thursday: * People pretending to be the IRS have been calling all over asking for people's personal information. Find out how one local woman escaped the scam. * Before a pair was evicted from their apartment, they tore out rugs and left a back porch covered in dog feces, their ex-landlord says. But they call the property owner "a slum lord." * Phones are out at hospitals, schools and businesses across the county. Read about it here.* A man charged with tormenting his neighbor cuts a deal with police. Look for all this and more in Friday's Press Enterprise.