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Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:16 am
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even more injuries.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:04 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two earthquakes rattled the far Northern California coast Saturday morning, but authorities say there are no reports of damage or injuries.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:21 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — There are no reports of damage or injuries after a 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Northern California.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:39 am
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. (AP) — Nevada wildlife officials have euthanized a black bear that entered an Incline Village condominium, saying the bruin posed a danger to the public.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:21 am
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:01 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Half-moon hoops, double rims, chain-linked fences for out-of-bounds lines and no net that anyone can recall.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:56 am
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty hose runs from the pipe to an idling truck and into a large tank labeled, "NON-POTABLE WATER."
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:53 am
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:51 am
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:15 am
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — As expected, police announced that the body found in a remote section of an Orange County canyon was Maribel Ramos, a 36-year-old former Army Sergeant missing for two weeks.
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Archived
Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:00 am
In the last half a dozen years, Arcohe Union Elementary School District has lost more than a quarter of its students due to declining enrollment.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:00 am
When informed that the Justice Department had seized a trove of Associated Press phone records, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said: "If the Obama administration is going after reporters' phone records, they better have a damned good explanation."
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Archived
Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:00 am
The Tokay 1913 is a paperbound Lodi Union High School yearbook, about the size of a small town's thin telephone book. It's a glimpse into the past a century ago when student life was much like it is today and yet so different.
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Archived
Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:00 am
The following is a list of public meetings in the Lodi and Galt areas this week:
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Archived
Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:00 am
Dan Crownover made a habit of feeding the cats that wandered around Epic Plastics on Turner Road — with his superiors' permission — before and after each eight-hour shift he worked. It's a 5-acre property, with lots of pipe storage and a car part junkyard next door. That makes for plenty of nooks and crannies for feral cats to find shelter.
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The Maloofs' agreement to sell the Kings to a Sacramento investor group was essentially sealed late Wednesday in Dallas, after the Sacramentans agreed to sweeten the pot.
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Friday, May 17, 2013 9:26 pm
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Newsroom employees at the Santa Barbara News-Press have voted to cut ties with the Teamsters, the union that has represented them through years of legal struggles with management over control of the newspaper.
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STOCKTON - The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office dispatched deputies to three west Stockton locations on reports of residential burglaries over a span of about 90 minutes Friday, authorities said.
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San Joaquin County's unemployment rate dropped to 12.9 percent in April, the lowest monthly jobless rate posted by the region since the global financial collapse more than four years ago, state officials reported Friday.
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STOCKTON - The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office dispatched deputies to three west Stockton locations on reports of residential burglaries over a span of about 90 minutes Friday, authorities said.
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Friday, May 17, 2013 8:22 pm
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—More than 60 people were injured, five seriously, when a Metro-North commuter train derailed near the Fairfield-Bridgeport line Friday night, colliding with a train heading in the opposite direction.
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Friday, May 17, 2013 8:13 pm
UNIONDALE, N.Y.—A Hofstra University junior sharing an off-campus house with her twin sister and several other students was shot and killed during an early morning break-in Friday that also left the armed intruder dead, police said.
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Friday, May 17, 2013 7:49 pm
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Police Department says it will comply with an order to reinstate two officer to their former ranks who were demoted for their involvement in a botched SWAT action that ended in the death of two fellow officers.
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Friday, May 17, 2013 7:37 pm
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Newsroom employees at the Santa Barbara News-Press have voted to cut ties with the Teamsters, the union that has represented them through years of legal struggles with management over control of the newspaper.
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Friday, May 17, 2013 5:49 pm
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — More than 20 people were injured, four seriously, when a Metro-North commuter train derailed near the Fairfield-Bridgeport line Friday night, striking a train heading in the opposite direction.