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FAIRFIELD — An opening celebration for the Gary Falati Neighborhood Park will be at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 11 at the park, 5100 Falati Lane, west of Peabody Road. The park, in the Gold Ridge subdivision, was named for former long-time Fairfield mayor Gary Falati, who was raised in Fairfield and served on its City Council [...]
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Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — Starting today, Westfield Solano mall shoppers can use receipts from their purchases to support local schools. 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 [...]
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The Associated Press SANTA CLARA — Frank Gore believes this season will be different, that his San Francisco 49ers are finally ready to take that step to the playoffs after all the missed chances in an 8-8 season a year ago. In coach Mike Singletary’s mind, they have to. The Niners are unbeaten in the [...]
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DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday began looking at what the state legally requires the county to do and where they might have leeway to make cuts. It’s a giant, multimillion dollar puzzle with hundreds of moving parts, some which must stay, some which can be removed and some which can be [...]
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FAIRFIELD — Today is the third Spare the Air day of the summer, with clean air advocates asking Bay Area residents to avoid driving when possible to keep down smog levels. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued the voluntary call to help keep the air clean, such as taking carpools and mass transit. [...]
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Associated Press Writer WICHITA, Kan. — The military has arrested an Air Force sergeant and accused him of having unprotected sex with partners he met at “swinger†parties in central Kansas even though he knew he was HIV positive, according to a military affidavit. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations said Tuesday the man [...]
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FAIRFIELD — Due to a computer malfunction, those who submitted vacation photos for the Daily Republic’s story on best vacation photos need to resend them again, as soon as possible. Send a copy to Amy Maginnis-Honey at amaginnis@dailyrepublic.net. Please put “Vacation Photo†in the subject line. It’s OK to send more than one photo. Photos [...]
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Associated Press Writer BOISE, Idaho — A helicopter chartered by the Department of Fish and Game plunged into a travel trailer and crashed Tuesday on a downtown street in the small town of Kamiah, killing two biologists and the pilot, authorities said. The Fish and Game biologists were identified as Larry Barrett, 47, and Danielle [...]
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Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO — California officials are moving to resume executing death-row inmates as soon as September, prompting a judge to rule that a 3-year-old death penalty ban remains in effect. Prosecutors point to new, recently approved procedures for lethal injections, saying the state is ready to execute condemned inmates. Marin County Superior [...]
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is declaring Operation Iraqi Freedom to be over with the end of the U.S. combat mission, and says it’s now time “to turn the page†to give the Iraqi people full responsibility for their own security. In excerpts of his prime-time address to the nation, Obama says that the U.S. [...]
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Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers on Tuesday began their overdue debate about how to close a $19 billion budget deficit, casting their differences as a struggle over the future of the nation’s most populous state. Neither party expected a breakthrough that would end the summer-long stalemate, but the debates in the Assembly and [...]
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