WASHINGTON — Nearly every private employer in the U.S. will get a tax cut on Friday. It won’t affect workers’ paychecks. But the expiration of a 35-year-old “temporary” unemployment tax — about $14 a year per worker — will mean real money for some big companies at a time when President Barack Obama is pushing Congress to [...]
A summer that looks a whole lot more like winter has travelers across the West scrambling to revise theirFourth of July itineraries — or at least their packing lists. Ski poles are replacing fishing poles at popular hiking and camping spots where late-winter snowstorms blanketed Western mountains from the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada. “A [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – “Life’s short . . . dessert first,” said the young fellow behind the Scream Sorbet stand. And with that I began my visit, in an oh-so-sweet way, to the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, the foodie “love fest” at the historic Ferry Building on the city’s Embarcadero waterfront. I delighted in sampling foods at the visitors’ booths outside [...]
NEW YORK — A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago’s South Side. Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and culture have been steadily draining of black [...]
WASHINGTON — As many as 12,000 people in federal prison for crack-related crimes can get their sentences reduced as a result of a new law that brought the penalties for the drug more closely in line with those for powdered cocaine, a government commission decided Thursday. The decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission applies to approximately [...]
Nine acres of family entertainment can be found at Scandia Family Fun Center and offerings include miniature golf, laser tag, bumper boats and baseball batting cages. Birthday parties and corporate events are welcome. Children 5 and under are free playing miniature golf with a paying partner. Seniors 60 and over and children 6-10 pay $6. [...]
No need to go out of the state to see Old Faithful. A quick trip to Calistoga, in the Napa Valley, will bring you to California’s version of the famous geyser that shares a namesake. It’s one of three geysers in the world with the “old faithful” moniker, which are geysers that perform at regular [...]
SUISUN CITY — Friends and family of Justin J. Jorgensen have turned one corner of the intersection at Walters Road and Pintail Drive into a memorial shrine to the 21-year-old Suisun City man who died from injuries he received there Wednesday. Messages such as “I’ll miss you,” “you were such a great guy” and “I [...]
Allendale Union Chapel VACAVILLE — Worships at 10 a.m. Sunday at 4844 Store Road. Call 469-8437. American Canyon Fil-Am Seventh-day Adventist Church AMERICAN CANYON — Worships at 11 a.m. Saturday at 240 Rio del Mar St. Call 980-3071 or visit http://www.americancanyonfilam.adventistfaith.org. A New Creation Deliverance Ministries FAIRFIELD — Worships at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the [...]
June 29, 2011 Vincent (Vince, Pops, Papa, Poppie) A. Langdon Sr. passed away June 29, 2011, at Kaiser Hospital Vacaville. He fought a long, hard battle with Emphysema, but he was tired so he went home to be with his mom, grandma, daughter, aunt and uncles, brothers, in-laws and dear friend Gary. He will now [...]
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