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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

• Regional Roundup

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• 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

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

February 2nd, 2010

• Big rig plows 7 cars

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

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

• Jumpers across California

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

February 1st, 2010

• Find cuddly alpacas not too far from Lodi

• Public Meetings

• Patients can expect faster, better service when Lodi Memorial Hospital's new emergency room opens

• Man killed by Amtrak train in Lodi

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Two die in Acampo parachute accident

One male and one female died Sunday afternoon in Acampo in a parachute accident when their chutes became entangled.

The victims' families had not yet been notified by Sunday evening and their names had not been released.

Bill Dause, owner of Parachute Center at the Lodi Airport, said the two were part of an eight-member team practicing a formation for an upcoming national parachuting championship.

At around 1 p.m., three skydivers got their lines crossed.

One of the jumpers was able to get free, but he didn't have specifics how.

"It's fate or luck or whatever you want to call it," he said.

Dause said the two others spiraled 5,000 feet before impact. One diver died at the scene and the other was transported to Lodi Memorial Hospital and was declared dead shortly after.

Dause said the two were practicing with their team, Redline, and that they were "highly skilled and highly trained" skydivers. He said they had been coming to Parachute Center regularly for the past three or four months in preparation for the competition. He said he knew them both for several years.

He said the members of Redline have been together for multiple years and even trained together before adopting the name Redline.

In 2008, Redline took first place in four-way sequential canopy formation at the U.S.P.A.'s national championships. Redline placed second in the same competition in 2007 and 2005.

Earlier this year a 33-year-old woman was hospitalized after her parachute became tangled in power lines and she hit a utility pole near the Lodi airport.

In 2001, three skydivers who were customers at Parachute Center died in a span of four months.

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