Special to the Daily Republic SUISUN CITY — When you think of some of the most prolific vocalists in R&B, it would be difficult not to consider Howard Hewett as one of the best. His impression on soul music has expanded for nearly 30 years. From his early days as the soft and smooth lead [...]
AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK — Alec Baldwin is philosophical about the end of “30 Rock’“s three-year run as best comedy at the Emmys. The NBC show lost its lock on the category Sunday as “Modern Family†won best comedy series. Baldwin also saw his two-year streak as outstanding actor in a comedy series come [...]
LOS ANGELES — The mother of “The Brady Bunch,†a former NFL quarterback, one of the self-proclaimed “guidos†from “Jersey Shore†and the daughter of Sarah Palin are among the celebrities who will cha-cha-cha on the 11th season of “Dancing with the Stars.†Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke, hosts of the ABC ballroom competition, announced [...]
DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire high school student shocked so severely in shop class that his heart stopped beating is suing his teacher, the school district and the city of Dover. Kyle Dubois and his parents claim teacher Thomas Kelley did not warn Dubois and other students of the dangers of the electrical [...]
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Roman Catholic bishops are requiring that suspected cases of sexual abuse of minors by clergy or others working for the church be reported to prosecutors. The new, expanded guidelines were released Tuesday in response to hundreds of allegations of abuse at the hands of clergy that emerged earlier this year, rocking [...]
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON ) — Twelve-year-old Malia Obama wears braces, toots a flute and is after her father to save the tigers. Younger sister Sasha, who is 9, shoots hoops like her basketball-loving dad and dances hip-hop. Both girls get up at 6 a.m. to get ready for school. Barack and Michelle Obama put [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — A Vacaville man who ended an argument with his girlfriend by blasting her with a shotgun at close range was sentenced today to 19 years in prison. Kelvin Allen, 45, was arguing with his girlfriend one morning in October 2009, as recounted by the girlfriend during his jury trial earlier this [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — Westfield Solano mall shoppers can use receipts from their purchases to support local schools starting Wednesday. Parents of children at local elementary schools will be able to shop at Westfield Solano stores and earn rewards for their child’s school through the mall’s Cash4Class incentive. The program is a point-based system of [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — Laura Dunn’s death certificate lists everything from respiratory failure to end-stage renal disease as reasons for her death at age 51. Her mother, Darleen Ellingson, said her daughter was a “victim of her own circumstance.†Dunn was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 7. And, despite 500 hospitalizations, a handful of [...]
FAIRFIELD — A San Francisco man led several California Highway Patrol officers on a high-speed chase this morning that ended on Interstate 80 near Travis Boulevard. Richard E. Gincel, 43, was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run crash in Oakland a short time before a CHP officer spotted Gincel at 10:20 a.m. on eastbound I-80 in [...]
VACAVILLE — A teenage girl who ran over her grandmother outside a Starbucks in Vacaville was arrested Monday on suspicion of carjacking and elder abuse. The girl, whose age was not provided by Vacaville police, walked out of the Alamo Drive coffee shop around 5:30 p.m., got into her grandmother’s parked PT Cruiser and started [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — A Vacaville man who ended an argument with his girlfriend by blasting her with a shotgun at close range was sentenced today to 19 years in prison. Kelvin Allen, 45, was arguing with his girlfriend one morning in October 2009, as recounted by the girlfriend during his jury trial earlier this [...]
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