Daily Republic RIO VISTA — A chance to tour one or both of the city’s sewage treatment plants in April and May will give residents the ability to see how things work behind the scenes. The free tours will be given by Veolia Water, the contractor that runs both the Beach and Northwest plants, in [...]
By the time my youngest daughter became mobile, she also stumbled upon the realization that everything her older sister does is cool. She, however, didn’t want to wait a moment — or until she was physically capable — to try whatever it was that her sister was doing. If the 5-year-old was sitting on the [...]
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote late Wednesday on a resolution demanding an immediate end to the growing violence in Ivory Coast and imposing new sanctions on Laurent Gbagbo, who has refused to relinquish the presidency, and his inner circle. Stephane Crouzat, spokesman for France’s U.N. Mission, which circulated the sanctions [...]
VIENNA — Austrian authorities presented plans Wednesday to restore and revamp the former Mauthausen concentration camp, calling it an important contribution to preventing the resurgence of Nazi sentiment. The Nazis shot, gassed, beat or worked to death about half the 200,000 inmates in the main camp or its affiliates around the villages of Mauthausen and [...]
HAVANA — Former President Jimmy Carter left Cuba on Wednesday without gaining the release of a U.S. government contractor jailed the past 16 months, a deflating end to what was otherwise a groundbreaking visit. Carter spent hours talking about improving ties with brothers Raul and Fidel Castro, describing the latter as an “old friend.†He [...]
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean activist has floated propaganda balloons including footage of protests in the Middle East toward North Korea, despite Pyongyang’s threat to retaliate. Park Sang-hak says the balloons were launched Thursday from a hill near the border. They also carried 1-dollar bills and 200,000 propaganda leaflets. The move came days [...]
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama urged high school students on Wednesday to think about their career goals and the job market before deciding what type of education to pursue. Obama was speaking at Ballou High School in southeast Washington as part of a Women’s History Month mentoring program. Responding to a question from a [...]
WASHINGTON — The CIA has sent small teams of operatives into Libya and helped rescue a crew member of a U.S. fighter jet that crashed, and the White House said Wednesday it was assessing “all types of assistance†for rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi’s troops. Battlefield setbacks are hardening the U.S. view that the poorly equipped [...]
FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Hood’s incoming commander likely will decide whether an Army psychiatrist will go to trial and face the death penalty for the deadly 2009 shootings at the Texas post. Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the departing commanding general, on Wednesday granted a request by Maj. Nidal Hasan’s attorney to delay proceedings until [...]
LOS ANGELES — A former public official accused of masterminding a scam that nearly bankrupted a modest Los Angeles suburb has been charged with additional crimes of falsifying documents and illegally inflating his retirement benefits, according to county grand jury indictments unsealed Wednesday. The documents charge Robert Rizzo, ousted Bell city manager, and his former [...]
VALLEJO — The National Park Service has rejected a request to include the former Navy shipyard at Mare Island in its system of parks. Will Shafroth, an official with the Interior Department, said in a March 11 letter to Democratic Rep. George Miller that the site is historically significant. But Shafroth said the park service [...]
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown has declared an official end to California’s drought as state water officials reported one of the wettest years of snow buildup in the Sierra Nevada. Brown ended the state of emergency declared by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in February 2009 after three relatively dry winters. Schwarzenegger had declared a statewide [...]
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