Bruce Seidel is confident the future of food television won’t be seen on television. Which is why the Food Network and Cooking Channel veteran has checked out of network TV to oversee the launch of YouTube’s latest original content channel, HUNGRY. The channel, which goes live on July 2, is expected to feature a freewheeling [...]
Dear Annie: After more than 40 years of devotion to my husband, I have finally realized what a stonehearted jerk he is. I have done everything in my power to love, respect and encourage him. But I’ve fallen into a pattern of picking up the pieces of my heart and overlooking my own hurt in [...]
CHICAGO — Grammy Award-winning polka great Eddie Blazonczyk, who began playing the lively music in the 1950s and went on to earn the nickname “Polka King” after starting his own band and label, has died. He was 70. His record label, Bel-Aire Recordings, and his son, Eddie Blazonczyk Jr., said Tuesday that Blazonczyk died of [...]
OAKLAND — C.J. Wilson and Ernesto Frieri combined on a one-hitter and the Los Angeles Angels broke out of their offensive slump in a 4-0 win over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night. Albert Pujols homered for the third time in seven days while Mark Trumbo and Howie Kendrick both had RBI singles for the [...]
VACAVILLE — The Vacaville City Council moved forward Tuesday to put the city’s garbage collection franchise agreement out for bid despite the pleas of Recology Vacaville Solano employees and their families, who filled the council chambers. “Recology is part of Vacaville. It is a tradition. Please don’t throw that away to make an extra buck,” [...]
RIO VISTA — Rio Vista High School students in the green jobs class have had to view wind turbine equipment just like everyone else — standing below a turbine tower and peering upward.
The 30 or so students in September 2011 did get to take a field trip to see turbine parts being assembled in the rural Montezuma Hills, site of Solano County’s wind farms. But any in-depth, close-up studies of the gearboxes and generators have been thwarted by the simple reality that such pieces are mounted on towers 60 feet to 260 feet tall.
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Travis is one of 53 active-duty bases being examined by the Air Force to either become a main operating base or a formal training base for the next-generation KC-46A air refueling tanker, which is slated to replace the service’s KC-135 air refueling tanker. There is also a longer list of [...]
SUISUN CITY — The 13th annual life jacket exchange sponsored by Radio Disney, in conjunction with various community partners, will take place Friday in Old Town Plaza. The event allows parents to bring in their child’s life jacket for inspection by water safety professionals, according to a press release. If it’s no long safe to [...]
VIENNA — Despite some remaining differences, a deal has been reached with Iran that will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to restart a long-stalled probe into suspicions that Tehran has secretly worked on developing nuclear arms, the U.N. nuclear chief said Tuesday. The news from International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano, who returned from [...]
VATICAN CITY — The Legion of Christ religious order, already discredited for concealing the crimes of its pedophile founder, suffered another blow to its credibility Tuesday after its superior admitted he knew in 2005 that his most prominent priest had fathered a child, yet allowed him to keep teaching and preaching about morality. The admission by [...]
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Tuesday vowed to push ahead with its nuclear program because of what it called U.S. hostility, as an outside analysis of satellite images suggested it has ramped up work at its nuclear test site over the past month. North Korea’s statement from an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman came [...]
BEIRUT — The leader of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah appealed for calm Tuesday after people blocked roads and burned tires in Beirut to protest the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese Shiites in neighboring Syria. The abductions in Syria’s northern Aleppo province threatened to ignite dangerous sectarian tensions and fueled fears that Lebanon is getting drawn [...]
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