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• Students gather to get tattooed with henna at the University of the Pacific

• Beavers killed in Galt after building dams

• Power turned out to be cheaper, but size of city's rate increase still unclear

• Stockton allergies ranked 9th worse overall in nation

• Lake friends donate money for tree-planting project

• Regional Roundup

November 2nd, 2009

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

November 7th, 2009

• Lodi High graduate was at Fort Hood

• Lining up for flu shots in Lodi

• Tour packs buses as birdwatchers admire Sandhill cranes

• City of Lodi staff looking into possibility of limiting number of taco trucks

• Daytime thieves targeting Lodi homes

• Lodi High School rally featured on 'Good Day Sacramento'

• Out of control

• Homicide suspect Anthony Hubbard arraigned

• Regional Roundup

• New Lodi Memorial rule to combat spread of H1N1: Visitors must be older than 16

November 6th, 2009

• Short sales make up nearly half of Lodi market

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi man accused of smuggling drugs, weapons for inmates at state prison

• 'I-5 Strangler' sentenced to 6 terms of life

• Jury convicts Acampo man of torture, assault of his girlfriend

• Young girl is 200,000th person to assemble AIDS, HIV care kit

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November 5th, 2009

• A lower Lodi Lake

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• San Joaquin County considers moratorium on new Williamson Act contracts

• Speakers address Lodi Unified School District budget shortfalls, plea to keep programs

• Armed robbers still targeting Lodi shops

• Regional Roundup

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• David Diskin is first to give an invocation under new city of Lodi policy

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November 4th, 2009

• Candle fire

• Rep. Jerry McNerney sets telephone town hall for Thursday

• Jason Behrmann is unanimously named Galt's city manager

• Regional Roundup

• Galt City Council argues over ordinance hiring residents

• San Joaquin County sues state over prison hospital planned for Stockton

• Big win for Allen Baroni in reclamation election

• California sends Democratic loyalist John Garamendi to Congress

• Bicycling father raising awareness of teen suicide

• Lodi City Council weighs raising fares to restore some bus service

November 3rd, 2009

• 500 attend service for Kyle Coumas

• Correction

• Galt considers ordinance that would require city contractors to hire locally

• Regional Roundup

• Have you seen a missing guide dog puppy in Lodi?

• Galt man dies after weekend Highway 12 crash

• Jason Behrmann is top candidate for Galt city manager

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

• Clarification

November 2nd, 2009

• Downtown Lodi trick or treat

• Public Meetings

• Correction

• Kyle Coumas funeral today

• 27-year-old man shot to death Saturday night in front of Acampo home

• Regional Roundup

• Group investigates reports of haunting

• Sandhill Cranes Festival comes to Lodi next weekend

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Stockton allergies ranked 9th worse overall in nation

’Tis the season of runny noses, watery eyes and sniffly sinuses.

And if you live here and have allergies, chances are, you’re miserable.

It’s no wonder: The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America put Stockton at No. 9 on its 2005 Top 10 list of the worst places in the country for fall allergies.

The worse-than-average pollen score pushed the city up from its 77th place in last year’s survey.

It is the only city in the top 10 west of the Rocky Mountains. Chicago ranked No. 1.

Three cities in Florida were named among the top 10, including Tampa (No. 3), Daytona (No. 4) and Melbourne (No. 10).

Further down the list of the most challenging places for fall allergy sufferers to live are nearby Modesto and Sacramento at Nos. 24 and 25, respectively. San Francisco appears at No. 68.

The group said cities were selected based on environmental and medical factors, including pollen levels and allergy medication usage in each municipality.

More than 35 million Americans are affected by allergies, costing the U.S. economy more than $7 billion annually, according to the foundation.

Allergies are the fifth leading chronic disease and a major cause of missed workdays each year, said Dr. Derek Johnson, an allergist at Temple University Medical Center in Philadelphia.

Extreme fall allergies should come as no surprise to those that suffer from them.

Area doctors estimate the symptoms actually started last spring — and continue through the summer and into the fall thanks, in part, to this area’s long agricultural harvest season.

Pollen that gets trapped in the San Joaquin Valley collects allergens and is not washed out until the rainy season begins, according to doctors.