AP Baseball Writer MINNEAPOLIS — Hall of Fame slugger Harmon Killebrew has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. The 74-year-old Killebrew released a statement through the Minnesota Twins on Thursday, saying he expects to make a full recovery from the “very serious†condition. “With my wife, Nita, by my side, I have begun preparing for what [...]
AP National Writer The numbers grow every year: 35 bowl games, 70 teams — the morphing of what was once a New Year’s Day tradition into one that kicks off in mid-December and finishes closer to Martin Luther King Day than Jan. 1. And if those bowl-season stats seem bloated, try this: Ohio State and [...]
AP Sports Writer ALAMEDA — The Oakland Raiders have spent years acquiring speedy players they hoped could deliver touchdowns from almost any spot on the field. Those speedsters finally delivered the game-breaking plays this season that have been lacking so much the past few years as Oakland finished up a seven-year run of losing at [...]
FAIRFIELD — Solano Community College is ranked 25th in the state and 13th in Northern California in the final football rankings released Thursday by the California Community College Football Coaches Association. SCC, which finished 9-2 on the season, also has the Region III offensive player of the year in quarterback Boy Humphrey and the region’s coach [...]
Special to the Daily Republic I hate it when someone reveals the end of a movie before you see it. It reminds me of when my brother and I were waiting in line in 1983 to see “Return of the Jedi†and some punk who came out of an earlier showing drove by and yelled [...]
Special to the Daily Republic Mike Singletary emphatically stated after his first postgame press conference that he wanted winners and people that wanted to win. Unfortunately for Singletary, he only turned out to be the latter; someone with the desire for victory, but not one who could show you a path to it. And so [...]
Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Cold blasts of wind hit California on Wednesday in the trail of a storm that dumped more rain and snow on the soggy state but failed to trigger significant new mudflows. One person was killed by a falling tree and a snowboarder was missing, power outages were scattered around the [...]
SAN DIEGO — A popular San Diego college professor was overheard calling for help shortly before he was found slain in his Tijuana, Mexico, apartment, the apartment building manager told The San Diego Union-Tribune Wednesday. A watchman had seen Henry Acejo, 45, enter his ground-floor unit with two men on Dec. 18, according to Marcos [...]
BEIJING — China’s number of Internet users — already the world’s largest — has risen to 450 million this year, more than a third of the country’s population. A senior Chinese official says that official statistics show that the new figure, as of the end of November, is an increase of 20.3 percent compared to [...]
MANILA, Philippines — Officials say an 80-year-old woman has died and her son is missing after they were swept away by floodwaters in eastern Philippines, where landslides and flooding have prompted some 4,000 people to evacuate to safer ground. Albay province has been pummeled by nonstop rains for five days, and the provincial governor, Joey [...]
ATHENS, Greece — An explosion has damaged two administrative court buildings in central Athens. Police say the blast occurred at 8:20 a.m. (0620 GMT) following a warning telephone call to a newspaper and private TV station, giving authorities time to evacuate the buildings. The blast shattered windows, damaged cars and sent up a cloud of [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — Terrance Tyson-Fairley and Jamarae Moss came up big for the Fairfield High boys basketball team, and the Falcons held off a pesky El Camino team for a 72-58 victory in the semifinals of the Fairfield Holiday Classic. “We just told the kids, that’s the best we’ve played all season,†said Falcons [...]
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