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February 9th, 2010

• Middle College High School rated one of the best — and a bargain, to boot

• Lodi decathlon boasts top team in county

• Man who sparked counterfeit case pleads guilty

• Local businessman will visit Haiti to look for family

• Man who claimed to be Yosemite Sam pleads guilty to meth charge

• David Harmer seeks Republican congressional nod

• Lack of evidence in case against suspect in 'drug deal' stabbing

• Regional Roundup

February 8th, 2010

• Public Meetings

• Locals pick best, most memorable Super Bowl commercials

• Regional Roundup

February 6th, 2010

• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch

• Meet Larry, Curly and Moe

• Baboon business

• Regional Roundup

• Several Lodi venues let you watch the Super Bowl in style

• Lodi Library celebrates 100 years of serving the community

• Culinary craft

February 5th, 2010

• Kids, teachers help Haiti by collecting pennies for Learning Link

• Lodi, Galt students reach out to help Haiti earthquake survivors

• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam

• Hours of sweat and work go into putting on crab feeds

• Things looking up for state's real estate

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Stray bullet strikes Lodi home; police suspect gang activity may be factor

February 4th, 2010

• Managers at Geweke Toyota answer questions about recall

• Lodi City Council votes to replace play structure at Century Park

• Lodi extends ban on pot shops for another year

• Mokelumne River triathlon set for June

• Family, friends to run half-marathon in memory of Galt family

February 3rd, 2010

• Correction

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

• Lodi-area senators Dave Cox, Lois Wolk admit to gifts; Tom Berryhill case pending

• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts

• Galt City Council avoids budget cuts — for now

• New Lodi Memorial Hospital emergency room opens to the public without a hitch

• Regional Roundup

February 2nd, 2010

• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future

• Correction

• Former Lodian Erica Davis is first paraplegic woman to summit Kilimanjaro

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

• Big rig plows 7 cars

• Jumpers across California

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• Will terrorists be given Miranda warnings? (75)
• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts (64)
• President Obama's first year (45)
• Many reject the politics of 'no' (45)
• Islamic symbol in mosaic — what is all the fuss? (44)
• Writer comments on Neely column (42)
• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch (41)
• Time to shed the convenient sham of 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy (34)
• We need to conduct respectful conversations (30)
• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam (25)

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Dutra transferred to Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla

Less than 48 hours after being sentenced to 11 years in prison for manslaughter, Sarah Dutra was transferred to state prison Wednesday.

Convicted by a jury in the Sept. 11, 2001, death of Woodbridge resident Larry McNabney, Dutra, 22, was sentenced Monday to 11 years, with credit for 458 days already served.

After spending more than a year in the county jail, she is now serving her sentence at Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Nellie Stone said.

Located about halfway between Merced and Madera, the prison has 1,980 beds and 937 staff members.

Dutra is now one of 617 female inmates between the ages of 20 and 24, according to 2003 statistics provided by the California Department of Corrections.

On March 19, 2002, Dutra was arrested for her role in the death of McNabney, whose body had been found buried in a Linden vineyard six weeks earlier.

Anthropologists and toxicologists determined that he had been given a fatal dose of horse tranquilizer, and that he had been refrigerated before being buried.

The attorney's wife, Elisa, was arrested in Florida after a nationwide manhunt, and she confessed to poisoning her husband, putting him in a refrigerator in their Woodbridge home and then burying him months later.

After implicating Dutra in the crime, she committed suicide in her Florida jail cell while awaiting extradition to California.

Charged with murder for financial gain, Dutra could have face life in prison without parole for her role in the death, but earlier this year a San Joaquin County jury instead found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter.

With credit for time served, Dutra could be released on parole shortly before her 30th birthday, Deputy District Attorney Thomas Testa said.

Women inmates are the minority in California, and in 2001, just 30 women convicted of manslaughter were admitted to the state prison system. Men make up the majority, and 337 became prisoners after being convicted of manslaughter, according to the CDC.

Valley State Prison, which operates on a $63 million budget, offers a variety of programs that "enhance inmate productivity, emphasize self-improvement and reduce idleness and recidivism," according to the CDC's Web site.

Vocational programs, that will allow Dutra to begin earning money to pay restitution ordered by a judge, range from cosmetology and graphic arts to welding and upholstery.