SACRAMENTO — Sacramento may soon have a stretch along one of the city’s boulevards officially named “Little Saigon.†Members of the Vietnamese community are set to ask the Sacramento City Council on Tuesday to designate the name for a section of restaurants, nail and hair salons, jewelry stores and Asian markets on Stockton Boulevard. City [...]
Associated Press Writer JUNEAU, Alaska — The fallout from Sarah Palin’s hasty retreat as governor is being cleaned up by the man she appointed attorney general in her waning days in office. Attorney General Dan Sullivan has proposed broad changes to Alaska’s ethics rules that Palin complained helped drive her out. One Sullivan recommendation that [...]
MARINA DEL REY — The 16-year-old Southern California girl on a mission to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone says she is taking a pit stop in Mexico to deal with an electricity problem. On her blog, Abby Sunderland of Thousand Oaks wrote Saturday she’s headed for Cabo San Lucas to [...]
July 12, 1937 — Jan. 22, 2010 Jetta Alayne Hansen, 72, a longtime resident of El Sobrante, died on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, in Richmond, following a brief illness. She was born on July 12, 1937, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Dr. Joseph L. Hansen and Dorothy Rachael Hansen (Baker). Jetta, known by many [...]
How long will it be before the Bay Area Toll Authority suggests another toll hike is needed on Bay Area bridges to maintain or retrofit additional bridges around the region? In case you missed the news this week, the toll authority voted unanimously to raise tolls on the Bay Area’s seven bridges by $1 — [...]
Associated Press Writer MINNEAPOLIS — It’s been six months since three young Americans were taken into custody in Iran, and the mother of one said even hiring an attorney in Iran has brought no new information on how they are doing. “It’s like there’s this brick wall in front of us, and we can’t get [...]
SACRAMENTO — Neighbors say they could hear a man yelling for help but couldn’t save him from a fire that torched an upstairs Sacramento County apartment. Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Christian Pebbles says the fire killed the man, believed to be in his 50s. It displaced two other families in the fourplex. One of [...]
The Associated Press DALLAS — Andre Miller scored a career-high 52 points, including 25 in the fourth quarter and overtime, and Juwan Howard hit a jumper with 44.8 seconds left to lift the Portland Trail Blazers past the Dallas Mavericks 114-112 Saturday night. Miller was 22 of 31 from the floor and hit 7 of [...]
AP National Writer NEW YORK — New copies of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall,†Andrew Young’s “The Politician†and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, a drastic step in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices. Macmillan CEO John Sargent said he was told Friday that its books would be removed from Amazon.com, [...]
AP Business Writers WASHINGTON — The government’s response to the financial meltdown has made it more likely the United States will face a deeper crisis in the future, an independent watchdog at the Treasury Department warned. The problems that led to the last crisis have not yet been addressed, and in some cases have grown [...]
Associated Press Writer RICHMOND, Va. — A winter storm that crossed in a nearly straight line dumping snow, sleet and ice this week from northern Texas to Washington was heading off the Atlantic coast early today. More than 5 inches of dry, fluffy snow was reported in Washington but it was finishing up by late [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — Jesse Manriquez is peaking at the right time. The Rodriguez 125-pounder posted a perfect 4-0 record to claim the title in his home gym during the third annual Lou Encalada Invitational wrestling tournament on Saturday. Ponderosa took the team title with 215.5 points, while De La Salle (184) was second, Vacaville’s [...]
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