Associated Press Writer MOISES, Mont. — A Sanders County sheriff’s official says four bodies have been found in the wreckage of a plane in northwestern Montana. Undersheriff Rube Wrightsman confirms the crashed plane is the one that has been missing since Sunday, when two Missoula men and two newspaper reporters from Kalispell went for an [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Area Rapid Transit officials say commuters are facing up to 15 minute delays now that train service has resumed after a train struck a man at a San Francisco transit station. BART spokesman Jim Allison says trains started rolling again along the heavily used corridor between San Francisco and the East [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — The excitement was evident in the faces of the graduates lined up inside the Fairfield Community Center Wednesday awaiting their cue to enter the packed, restless room of family and friends wielding cameras, flowers and congratulatory balloons. The students were part of the largest ever class to graduate from the Fairfield-Suisun [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will begin patrolling Texas’ border with Mexico with a drone to aid agents in intercepting illegal traffic in people and drugs. It will join the pilotless Predator B’s already conducting aerial surveillance of the Arizona border. Having proven their utility and durability in Iraq and Afghanistan, [...]
As a newspaperman in what some consider the twilight of the age of print, it feels as if I’m being “punked.†In any case, I’m pretty sure Ashton Kutcher is messing with me. More precisely, the movie star and the movement he represents are messing with my livelihood and that of thousands of other professional [...]
In June of last year, after my honor roll granddaughter, Lauryn, graduated from the sixth grade, Cathi and I asked her mother if Lauryn could come over during summer vacation so I could tutor her and get her ready for junior high. Her mother (and Lauryn) didn’t think she needed it, and, after all, summer [...]
As a volunteer for the American Cancer Society, I know about the harmful effects of tobacco. Secondhand smoke contains more than 4,000 known human carcinogens and has been identified to be cancer-causing in humans. Each year, more than 3,000 non-smoking adults in the United States die of lung cancer as a result of breathing the [...]
I love it when I see that a company has taken the time to mark their product “Made in America.†I wish every company that has an American-made product would prominently display that fact on their product. I will buy an American-made product every time over any made outside of the U.S., even if I [...]
FAIRFIELD — The Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee voted Tuesday to approve a bill by state Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, that would allocate existing bond funds for flood protection and levee repairs in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Senate Bill 991 would move $30 million from the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act approved [...]
The Associated Press There was a time, when NASCAR’s brightest stars weren’t the guys in the driver’s seat but the cars they drove to Victory Lane. Richard Petty changed all that, his larger-than-life persona giving the fledgling sport a national presence 40 years ago and paving the way for the likes of Dale Earnhardt Sr. [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — A proposed facility where prisoners would go before their release is advancing more slowly than expected, city officials acknowledged Wednesday. The Fairfield City Council in 2009 unanimously backed the idea of putting a 500-bed complex on Cordelia Road, where inmates could learn coping abilities and marketable job skills to make them [...]
FAIRFIELD — It’s that season once again for Renaissance and pirate fairs. Is that your thing? If it is, the Daily Republic would like to hear from you for an upcoming story. If you eagerly await weekends so you can don your Ren outfits and do a little bit of role playing, please contact us. [...]
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