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\n DIXON — Davis High\’s Lady Blue Devil basketball team will meet Will C. Wood for the third time this season at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the third-place game of the Dixon Ram Jam. \n After a heart-breaking 48-45 loss to powerhouse Inderkum on Tuesday, DHS will try to stop the Wildcats (8-6) for the … Continue Reading
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\n DIXON — It all happened so fast. \n Up one with 15 seconds to go in the second round of the Ram Jam Invitational, the Davis High girls basketball team lost Khaliya Wilkins (to fouls), lost the ball — while trying to bring the ball downcourt to shoot a game-winner — then lost its … Continue Reading
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\n FULLERTON — At the beginning of the season, UC Davis men\’s basketball coach Gary Stewart knew he would be able to rely on seniors Mark Payne and Joe Harden to score. \n He also knew that having just two reliable scorers wouldn\’t be enough for the Aggies to succeed \n in Big West play … Continue Reading
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\n RANCHO BERNARDO — As has so often happened this season, Davis High\’s boys basketball team — while playing an otherwise terrific game — couldn\’t hit a key shot to save its collective life. \n Leading through most of Tuesday\’s contest, the Blue Devils went sour in the fourth quarter and scored only two points. … Continue Reading
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Yolo County supervisors may have broken the law Friday when they pushed through a deal with Angelo Tsakopoulos over the 17,300-acre Conaway Ranch. One supervisor, Davis’ Jim Provenza, is investigating whether the county gave the public adequate notice that the Board of Supervisors would consider approving a 16-page contract with the Sacramento developer. Provenza was … Continue Reading
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Enterprise staff writer \n \n A Woodland man who allegedly led police on a Christmas Eve pursuit before trying to carjack a woman took his own life two days later at the Yolo County Jail, coroners officials announced this morning. \n Juan Antonio Bravo Lopez, 19, was found hanging in his jail cell at 5:10 … Continue Reading
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\n RANCHO BERNARDO — Even a change of climate made no difference. The Davis High boys basketball team isn\’t shooting well. \n In a 57-34 first-round loss to Brea Olinda on Monday, the Blue Devils opened their first visit to the ESPN/iScore Invitational in San Diego with a game that got mixed reviews. \n “Despite … Continue Reading
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Enterprise correspondent \n DIXON — Ram Jam? Thank you, ma\’am! \n The Lady Blue Devils opened the Ram Jam Invitational with a bang Monday morning as they easily handled a solid Benicia High, 56-40. \n Just like most of the season, the Devils were led by the Wonder Twins — Malika and Khaliya Wilkins — … Continue Reading
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Special to the Enterprise \n “I couldn\’t have asked for a better Christmas gift,” Michael P. Stenson says about a message that his dad left above a ceiling in Cruess Hall at UC Davis — a message recently uncovered after 60 years. \n Stenson\’s father, Michael F. Stenson, died of cancer in 1981, at the … Continue Reading
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Enterprise staff writer \n After $222 million in state budget cuts over the past three fiscal years, a bit of light is peeking through UC Davis\’ budgetary clouds: a $2.8 million surplus for 2011-12. \n Blink, though, and you might miss it. \n That\’s because Gov.-elect Jerry Brown\’s budget is due to be wheeled out … Continue Reading
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Enterprise staff writer \n Authorities in Woodland are investigating a suspected case of arson that drove a 102-year-old woman and her caregiver from their home late Sunday night. \n Police say someone tossed a Molotov cocktail at the West Keystone Avenue home of Georgia Traynham, the mother of retired Woodland Daily Demo-crat sports editor Gary … Continue Reading
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McNaughton Newspapers \n FAIRFIELD — Twenty-six years ago, Bob Leland told then-City Manager B. Gale Wilson that he would run Fairfield\’s finance team for three years. \n Make it four years, Wilson countered. \n It was a deal. \n At the end of this month, Leland, a longtime Davis resident, will retire from public service … Continue Reading
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Enterprise staff writer \n It was hardly a silent night for police who spent their Christmas Eve pursuing a Woodland man who allegedly tried to carjack a woman before assaulting a California Highway Patrol officer. \n Juan Antonio Bravo, 19, now faces charges of battery on a peace officer, carjacking and resisting arrest in connection … Continue Reading
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\n A sobriety checkpoint Thursday night in Davis ended without a single driver being arrested for drunken driving, according to officers from Yolo County\’s “Avoid the 8” DUI task force. \n However, five DUI arrests were made elsewhere in the county during the same time-frame — two in Davis, two in West Sacramento and one … Continue Reading
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