Daily Republic VALLEJO — The Rodriguez High School English teacher arrested in November on sex charges involving one of her students pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning to five felonies. Felicia S. Killings, 27, was ordered back to court Jan. 11, 2010, for a probable cause hearing in front of Judge Robert Bowers. Killings and her [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — Santa Claus will take a different role this year in the city’s traditional holiday celebration. The Christmas icon will lead a community candlelight stroll, complete with carolers, through downtown Fairfield on Friday in lieu of the tree lighting of years past. The three-hour event will kick off at 6:30 p.m. with [...]
Daily Republic SUISUN CITY — If Corie Barloggi sees diversity in her classroom, then why can’t it be seen in the books children read? That’s what Barloggi, a third-grade teacher at Suisun Elementary School, was thinking when she illustrated her second children’s book for author Denise Christian. For “What Does the Doggie Say?†Barloggi decided [...]
Associated Press WASHINGTON — The co-chairmen of President Barack Obama’s deficit commission are sticking with politically explosive proposals to raise the Social Security retirement age and curb benefit increases in a revised plan to wrestle the deficit under control. The new plan by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, to be publicly unveiled Wednesday, faces an [...]
NORCROSS, Ga. — Police in suburban Atlanta have seized more than 900 pounds of methamphetamine worth an estimated $45 million on the street, which they believe is one of the largest meth seizures in the country. Gwinnett County police say they raided a house in Norcross Monday afternoon after being told a large amount of [...]
Associated Press WASHINGTON — About 1 in 5 drivers who were killed last year in car crashes tested positive for drugs, raising concerns about the impact of drugs on auto safety, the government reported Tuesday. Researchers with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the new data underscored a growing problem of people driving with [...]
Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska — Sarah Palin gave at least $507,000 to candidates and political causes in 2010 as she earned a reputation as kingmaker and raised her profile ahead of a possible presidential run. The biggest chunk of that money, about $306,500, was doled out in the month leading to the Nov. 2 general [...]
Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Mexico has done little over the past decade to improve the squalid living conditions of mentally disabled adults and children who are in institutions, an international advocacy group charged Tuesday. Patients are tied to wheelchairs, walls of shelters and institutions are stained with feces and pools of urine cover the [...]
Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Federal police arrested an alleged local leader for a drug cartel that purportedly offered to disband if the Mexican government proves it can protect citizens from other criminals in a western state, authorities said Tuesday. Jose Alfredo Landa, 37, was in charge of La Familia operations in Morelia, the Michoacan [...]
Associated Press MARINETTE, Wis. — His first shots blasted the film projector and punched into a wall. The last he aimed at himself. In between, the 15-year-old high school sophomore held his teacher and about two dozen classmates hostage for more than six hours. As the gunman died Tuesday, his motivation still unclear, students who [...]
HAMILTON, Ohio — A woman who says she was tied up in a closet for 10 days and raped repeatedly said her captor told her he had intended to sell her as a sex slave but decided to keep her as “a pet.†The 22-year-old woman described her alleged captivity to The Cincinnati Enquirer and [...]
Associated Press WASHINGTON — Mohamed Mohamud appeared to have discovered an unusually compassionate pair of terrorists. They told him he didn’t have to kill to be a good Muslim. He could just pray. A bomb was a very serious matter, they said. Kids might be killed. Time and again, they offered a way out. At [...]
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