Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON — The Obama administration went on the attack Wednesday against the country’s biggest business lobby over its resistance to financial rules as Democrats and the White House voiced new optimism that sweeping Wall Street regulations could be completed within months. Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — The suspects in a large marijuana growing and sales operation in Rio Vista and Walnut Grove pleaded not guilty earlier this week to felony charges. Steve A. Perry, 24, and his mother, Renee D. Cook, 44, were arrested over the weekend at their Delta Way home in Rio Vista. A search [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — The day’s delivery of lunch from Meals on Wheels of Solano County was already in the Fairfield Senior Center’s kitchen when Fairfield Mayor Harry Price arrived this morning. “I think we are ready to eat,†Price said cheerfully before spending some time talking to the dozen seniors at the tables waiting [...]
VACAVILLE — Vacaville firefighters are asking business owners and residents to be on the lookout for a group of people who are performing fake fire inspections and then charging a large fee. The scammers tell business owners they are there to perform a fire and safety inspection, look around the business and leave a bill [...]
MONTREAL (AP) — The province of Quebec passed landmark legislation Wednesday that stipulates Muslim women will need to uncover their faces when dealing with Quebec government services. The bill says people obtaining or delivering services at places such as health or auto insurance offices will need to do so with their faces in plain view. [...]
Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES — Robert Culp, the actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the racially groundbreaking TV series “I Spy†and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,†died Wednesday after collapsing outside his Hollywood home, his agent said. Culp was 79. His manager, [...]
Scripps Howard News Service When Peter Hitchens was 8 years old, and his brother, Christopher, was 11, their father asked the two hotheaded young Brits to sign a peace treaty. “I can still picture this doomed pact in its red frame, briefly hanging on the wall,†noted Peter Hitchens, in a recent essay published in [...]
For The Associated Press Lindsey Mann is a waitress and Mikel Stone is a pedicab driver, but in their spare time they pursue a dream: crafting and selling healthy, chemical-free soaps that smell great and lather up well. After two years of trial and error, the Denver couple have hit upon several reliable recipes. “Turns [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police want to talk to Suge Knight after a rapper initially accused the former Death Row Records chief of robbing him before recanting the story. Detective Jeff Briscoe says 35-year-old Jerold Ellis, who uses the name Yukmouth, reported he was talking to Knight on Monday night in a Woodland [...]
AP Movie Writer If you had a hot tub that could transport you to any era in time, would you really make a beeline for the 1980s? That’s where the filmmakers headed with “Hot Tub Time Machine,†a not-so-excellent, dude-where’s-my-youth adventure that’s occasionally amusing but mostly is as lazy, self-involved and garish as that chintzy [...]
Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — Broadway is about to get the roof blown off by the political anthems of Green Day’s “American Idiot,†and front man Billie Joe Armstrong has no qualms about it. “What makes a true artist,†the band’s chief vocalist, guitarist and lyricist said, “is putting yourself out there and doing [...]
Daily Republic staff FAIRFIELD — It’s not often the Benicia High girls soccer squad is handed a defeat in Solano County Athletic Conference play. In fact, Vanden had never pulled it off — until last week. Chelsea Ladd blasted in a goal off a pass from Angie Dooley and the Vikings defense, anchored by goalie [...]
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