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• Lodi City Council aims to borrow $1.2 million to deal with cuts

• Lodi City Council meetings can still be watched at home

• Lockeford man charged in national corruption scandal in the tomato industry

• Local students in line with state, national peers

• Road work crew hits gas line in Woodbridge, cutting service

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi, Galt Lutherans tackle homosexuality at convention

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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• 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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Two county residents die from swine flu; more illness expected

San Joaquin County has reported its first deaths from the swine flu virus this year.

A 5-year-old girl from Stockton and a 34-year-old man from Lathrop died within the past two months, according to the county Public Health Services Department.

The state laboratory recently confirmed that the 5-year-old was a confirmed case of pandemic swine flu, also known as the H1N1 influenza. Meanwhile, the 34-year-old tested positive for influenza A by a PCR diagnostic test, according to Public Health. He is presumed by the state to be a swine flu victim since testing shows that only the swine flu influenza virus is circulating in California.

County health officials expect that, due to the new strain of the swine flu virus, influenza in the community will greatly increase in the fall and winter during the normal influenza season.

"While this pandemic (H1N1) influenza strain is similar in terms of severity compared to the normal seasonal influenza strains, there will be a greater number of people sick in the community due to the presence of the additional pandemic H1N1 influenza strain," county Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Furst said in a news release.

For the full story, please see Friday's News-Sentinel.