DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — Solano County has awarded a $45,000 contract to create a county exhibit for this summer’s California State Fair, seemingly bringing to a conclusion an issue that has become symbolic during tough budget times. But County Supervisor Linda Seifert said today that she wished the Board of Supervisors would have held another [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — James Bates was scheduled to speak in a few minutes but the venue — the Grange Middle School multipurpose room — was full of tables and chairs that needed to be moved. So he pitched in and helped the janitor move the tables and stack the chairs. It’s that can-do attitude [...]
Associated Press PARIS — Annie Girardot, the perky, gravelly-voiced actress who became one of France’s most enduring and acclaimed modern stars, died on Monday. She was 79. Girardot, with awards for both film and theater in a decades-long career, had suffered for years from Alzheimer’s disease and a Paris hospital said she died on Monday. [...]
Associated Press “Life, on the Line: A Chef’s Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat†(Gotham Books, $27.50), by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas: Grant Achatz had already won acclaim as one of the nation’s top chefs when he was diagnosed, at age 33, with advanced cancer of the tongue. [...]
Associated Press NEW YORK — Parents who help with homework think they have it bad with wacky new math in the lower grades. Try the ablative case in the second declension for high school Latin. Susan Wheeler Fisk is ready with a resounding carpe diem! She enrolled in Latin I online with her 18-year-old senior [...]
BOSTON — An FBI file contends that a young Edward Kennedy arranged to rent a brothel for a night while visiting Chile in 1961, a year before he was elected to the Senate. The previously redacted memo, dated Dec. 28, 1961, was released by Judicial Watch, a Washington-based organization that said it obtained it through [...]
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Aging survivors of the Nazi Holocaust intend to protest outside a fundraiser featuring President Barack Obama to bring attention to an estimated $20 billion in Jewish insurance policies they say were never paid. Members of Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA said Monday they want Obama and Florida Sen. Bill Nelson to push [...]
SACRAMENTO — The union representing state prison guards says its top communications officer has died. JeVaughn Baker, a spokesman for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, said Monday that Lance Corcoran died late Sunday at his home in Sacramento but says he did not know the cause of death. Corcoran, who was 47, held a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco International Airport is set to evict all charities soliciting donations on airport property. The commission that manages the airport is expected to pass a panhandling ban at its meeting Tuesday. It would take effect in April. Until now, airport officials have limited solicitors to two “free speech†booths inside [...]
LOS ANGELES — Lance Armstrong is backing a new tax on tobacco in California that would fund research on cancer and tobacco-related illnesses. The cycling champ and cancer survivor joined Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday to urge support for the California Cancer Research Act, which would increase taxes on cigarettes by $1 a [...]
LOS ANGELES — Lawyers for Michael Jackson’s doctor, insisting on a speedy trial on an involuntary manslaughter charge, appeared headed for a roadblock, with a judge saying Monday he doesn’t think they are for trial and he may have to delay the planned March 24 start. “I am extremely distressed about the state of this [...]
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