Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — In 1999, the number of home-schoolers approached 850,000, according to estimates by the U.S. Department of Education. In 2007 it swelled to 1.5 million. In 2008 it reached 2 million and in 2010 the number of home-schoolers inched up to slightly more than 2 million, according to the research institute. State [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — Nora Marshall never saw herself home schooling her children. In fact, she was against it because what she’d been exposed to was “extreme church home-schoolers,†she said. Despite her objections, Marshall, a Suisun City resident, is now a home-schooling mom to her two children, Connor Marshall, 12, and Shannon Marshall, 9. [...]
Daily Republic NAPA — Adam Carolla is an author, actor and comedian. However, if you want to find the “real†Adam Carolla, look at his interests — architecture and cars. His other work is just a way to subsidize those endeavors, he joked. “I’m much more interested in vintage car racing. I still do a [...]
Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Charlie Callas, a versatile comedian whose zany faces and antics made him a regular for more than four decades on television, in films and on casino stages, has died in Las Vegas. He was 83. Callas died Thursday at a hospice, according to his sons Mark Callas and Larry Callas. [...]
Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A small marble relief of Jesus Christ flanked by two angels and being held up by Mary was one of the last pieces that Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo ever created. This marble work is displayed next to a cast of his other great work, The Pieta, depicting Christ in [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — There was an old-school vibe at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. With the New York Knicks showing signs of life not seen since the Patrick Ewing days, the team brought in pioneering DJ Grandmaster Flash to pump up the crowd against the rival Miami Heat. “There’s an energy here. It’s [...]
Associated Press WASHINGTON — Facing the prospect that a cornerstone Arab ally might collapse, the Obama administration appealed Friday for Egyptian authorities to respect the rights of citizens and halt the crackdown on swelling anti-government protests. Washington again urged the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to bend toward demands for political and economic reform. [...]
Associated Press WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders preparing for a new culture of gays serving openly in the military are serving notice that discrimination won’t be tolerated. Defense Secretary Robert Gates also directed his policy staff in a memorandum to move ahead carefully, but expeditiously, to end the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell†policy instituted during [...]
Associated Press Most of the 35 states with capital punishment have run out of a key lethal injection drug or will soon, according to an Associated Press review. And in many places, switching to another drug could prove a difficult, drawn-out process, fraught with legal challenges from death row that could put executions on hold. [...]
Cox Newspapers WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Two suns in the sky. The news that the star Betelgeuse is about to explode so spectacularly that it will appear as a second sun in our sky has been floating around the Internet for several months. But it gained credibility this week when a physics lecturer at [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — The utility that operated a pipeline that exploded in a San Francisco suburb cannot find key records needed to set safe pressures for nearly a third of its gas transmission lines, a congresswoman told a newspaper. Rep. Jackie Speier said Thursday that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. President Chris Johns told her [...]
PATTERSON — Authorities say they’ve located the vehicle belonging to the suspect in the abduction of a 4-year-old Central California boy. Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson says divers found the vehicle at the bottom of a canal Friday. He says they’re working to pull it out of the water and don’t know yet if any [...]
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