Thursday, May 27 12:01 a.m. — VERBAL DISTURBANCE 506 THOMAS CIR 12:57 a.m. — TEST CALL 701 CIVIC CENTER BL 1:36 a.m. — TRAFFIC STOP WHITBY WY/LAWLER RANCH PKWY 1:50 a.m. — MEDICAL 1381 POTRERO CIR 1:52 a.m. — TRAFFIC STOP WALTERS RD/E TABOR AV 2:04 a.m. — PEDESTRIAN STOP BELLA VISTA DR/WALTERS RD 2:43 [...]
Daily Republic SUISUN CITY — Lawler Falls Park has a mystery. For years now, water has been leaking out of the ponds and investigation after investigation has failed to stem the problem. A mystery for Sherlock Holmes it is not. But it remains a problem, one the City Council on Tuesday will consider spending as [...]
The Associated Press DENVER — Seth Smith, Carlos Gonzalez and Ryan Spilborghs hit consecutive home runs in the seventh inning, Troy Tulowitzki also homered and Colorado won 8-2 Thursday to complete a sweep of the three-game series. Gonzalez and Spilborghs finished with three hits each for the Rockies, who have won a season-high five straight. [...]
Associated Press Writer PARIS — When Grand Slam champion Venus Williams stepped onto a French Open court in a see-through black lace dress with a red-trimmed top, the beleaguered lace industry let out a cheer. Williams’ corsetlike outfit — reminiscent of a 19th-century Parisian cancan chorus costume — startled many sports fans and prompted wolf [...]
The Associated Press BALTIMORE — Kevin Kouzmanoff doubled in three runs to cap a five-run eighth inning, and the Oakland Athletics rallied to beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-5 Thursday for their second road series win. Gabe Gross homered for the Athletics, who won the final two games of the three-game series. Oakland’s only other series [...]
AP National Writer AVALON, Wis. — In these uncertain times, most of us cling to the things that make us feel secure. Those who have jobs give thanks. We hug our children a little tighter. We wait — and hope — for better times. So when someone like Matt Green comes along, we shake our [...]
Associated Press Writer Judging from the NASCAR fans in my family, there’s some truth to the old gag that they really watch auto racing for the crashes. Video-game companies have long assumed as much. From arcade classics like “Death Race†to more recent demolition derbies like “Burnout,†designers seem to enjoy showing how much damage [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — Incumbent Solano County Supervisor John Vasquez is by far the top money-raiser in the race for the District 4 seat. Vasquez has raised $67,100, five times as much as his nearest competitor. The information is contained in papers that candidates for the June 8 primary election were to file with the [...]
The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s Freddy Sanchez got hit in the face by a spiked cleat from Washington’s Justin Maxwell, then got up to deliver a bigger blow to the Nationals. Sanchez, who missed all of spring training and the first 38 games of the regular season recovering from shoulder surgery, hit [...]
FAIRFIELD — The Daily Republic is looking for your fun and/or inspirational stories about your father for a Father’s Day Sunday Living feature. It doesn’t matter if you’re in elementary school or retired, if you have a great story about your father, we’d like to hear from you. How does he inspire you? How does [...]
The Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas man with no military experience tricked the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned officer earlier this year, a deception that placed an untrained soldier in a leadership position in a time of war, an Associated Press investigation has found. The revelation [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — It will be a busy construction season at Travis Air Force Base with work on reconstructing a runway, adding a C-17 assault landing zone, replacing a fire station and improving the South Gate. The biggest of these is a $60 million project that demolishes and rebuilds the base’s 50-year-old second runway [...]
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