FAIRFIELD — A controversial proposal to build a subdivision near Rockville Hills Park is back, this time with twice the number of homes. Woodcreek Homes is proposing to build 66 homes on 33 acres near the intersection of Rockville and Suisun Valley roads in a rural part of unincorporated Solano County. An earlier plan approved [...]
SUISUN CITY — It appears to be a small trauma center inside the One Harbor Center office complex along the waterfront, though the “victims” on the operating tables are a little different. They have a human appearance and have beating hearts, inflating lungs and liquid coursing through their veins. Doctors and nurses tend to them [...]
DELANO — Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis will attend a Sunday memorial for Richard Chavez, who helped brother Cesar Chavez build the United Farmworkers of America and died last week at age 81. The foundation chaired by Richard Chavez’s longtime partner Dolores Huerta said in a statement that the memorial in Delano, the town near [...]
LONG BEACH — Three men and a woman in Long Beach who prosecutors say were trying to establish themselves as pimps have each been convicted on multiple counts of rape, robbery and assault for a three-day crime spree last year. The Long Beach Press-Telegram says in a story Saturday that 20-year-old Edward Tyler, 29-year-old Ditrick [...]
LOS ANGELES — Police say a man just released from Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles jumped out of a moving ambulance, hid out in a church, then stabbed a police officer before police shot and killed him. Police spokeswoman Norma Eisenman says the man was freed Saturday afternoon and attacked medics taking him [...]
WASHINGTON — He calls himself Sen. Tea Party. That almost says it all about Sen. Jim DeMint’s role on the nation’s political scene in these nervous days of debt limit warfare and pre-election posturing. But unlike the fractious movement as a whole, DeMint is specific and focused on what change, exactly, he wants: passage — [...]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Flight 523 from New York had just touched down and passengers were applauding the pilot’s landing in the South American country Saturday when something suddenly went wrong. The Boeing 737-800 slid off the end of a rainy runway, crashed through a chain-link fence and broke in half just short of a deep [...]
BARLING, Ark. — Four siblings killed in a shooting rampage at a Texas roller rink were remembered Saturday as a part of a tight-knit family, even as the hundreds gathered in an Arkansas church to mourn them tried to make sense of the tragedy. More than 400 people attended a service for Trini Do, 29, [...]
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds did not disappoint and the air show announced itself with a thunderous roar Saturday afternoon at the Travis Air Power Expo. “That is what I call high performance!,” said Jacob Waverly of Fresno, who brought his family just to see one of the nation’s top [...]
FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Library Literacy Services is hosting a fundraiser at Chevy’s in Fairfield on Aug. 23. The fundraiser will raise money for the purchase of workbooks and dictionaries for English as Second Language students. Chevy’s will contribute 25 percent of the sales, not including alcohol, to the literacy program. It begins at [...]
FAIRFIELD — A new nonprofit is looking for students to apply for its six-month mentoring and education pilot program. YIPPIE Foundation of Fairfield is hosting two informational meetings about the program on Thursday. The one-hour meetings are at noon and 7 p.m. at the California Business Center, 1652 West Texas St., Suite 123 in Fairfield. [...]
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