VALLEJO — A 24-year-old Oakland man who allegedly stole a car last year to make a court appearance on an auto theft charge is back in jail after skipping bail. Samuel Botchvaroff Jr. was arrested in the Vallejo courthouse parking lot one morning last November when a LoJack tracking system led authorities to a stolen [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Keeping Travis’ jet transports and air tankers flying safely had long been Master Sgt. Edwin Allert’s job as a jet engine mechanic. Becoming part of the base’s bird/aircraft strike hazard program four years ago, finding ways to keep planes and birds apart, was a part of that, he [...]
FAIRFIELD — Volunteers will be in front of Grocery Outlet from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday soliciting donations of water and canned food as part of an ongoing aid effort for disaster-stricken Haiti. The volunteers are affiliated with the Samoan Christian Fellowship in Fairfield, which has sent several truck containers loaded with supplies since [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — First 5 Solano and various regional business leaders had a message today for the local business community: Invest in children. Work to ensure Solano County has good child-care opportunities and preschools, they said at the Solano Economic Development Corp. breakfast at the Hilton Garden Inn. Lobby elected officials to make decisions [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet — also called the mothball or ghost fleet — is to have 52 ships that are flaking toxic paint into the water removed by September 2017. Environmental groups and the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board filed a lawsuit two years ago against the [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — A Solano County woman in her late 20s has become the eighth county resident to die after contracting the H1N1 flu virus, according to Solano Public Health. The woman had underlying health conditions, a county press release said. Health officials did not reveal her city of residence or give other details, [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — Reps. George Miller and John Garamendi talked today about an evolving federal jobs bill designed to help cities, counties and schools keep crucial employees and to help the private sector. But first, Garamendi wanted to pause and remember the recently passed health care package, which he said Miller did much work [...]
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — Seniors aren’t breaking out the champagne for President Barack Obama’s health care law, and for good reason. While Democrats hail the overhaul as their greatest health care achievement since Medicare, seniors fear it’s a raid on that same giant health care program — a bedrock of retirement security — in [...]
Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON — Top Republicans are starting to worry about their health care rallying cry “Repeal the bill.†It just might singe GOP candidates in November’s elections, they fear, if voters begin to see benefits from the new law. Democrats, hoping the GOP is indeed positioning itself too far to the right for [...]
AP Energy Writer By opening parts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling, the Obama administration wants to tap a huge energy resource that could keep fuel costs in check. But don’t expect gasoline pump prices to fall anytime soon because of the new drilling. The offshore areas are located along [...]
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appealed to the world’s nations Wednesday to donate $3.8 billion to start rebuilding earthquake-ravaged Haiti — and the world responded even more generously. In the first minutes of a day-long donors conference, the United States and the European Union pledged more [...]
MOSCOW — Russian police broke up anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Wednesday, detaining dozens of demonstrators who had defied bans in holding the rallies. About 200 protesters gathered near a St. Petersburg shopping mall on the main avenue, Nevsky Prospekt, chanted “Russia will be free!†and “Constitution!†Police quickly dispersed the protesters, [...]
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