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A LONG-AGO FRIEND … Janet in Woodland kindly sent along a newspaper clipping from the Billings Gazette that featured the recent death of Joseph Richard White at the age of 72 in Absarokee, Mont. … after listing much of Joe White’s background, the obituary noted that “Joe became a journalist writing for the Placerville Mountain […]
A Davis resident is among five people — including a Los Angeles attorney — indicted by a federal grand jury this week on charges of money laundering and conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana, according to officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento. Brook Murphy, 54, is named in the indictment along with Nathan […]
Robert Clare Pearl Sr. died Aug. 30, 2012, in Davis. He was 87. He was a retired Cooperative Extension agronomist with the department of food science and technology at UC Davis. Arrangements for a memorial service are pending.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Isaac sloshed northwards into the nation’s midsection Friday after flooding stretches of Louisiana and knocking out power, leaving entire water-logged neighborhoods without lights, air conditioning or clean water. It will be a few days before the soupy brown water recedes and people forced out of flooded neighborhoods can return home. And […]
FRESNO (AP) — Two more Yosemite National Park visitors have been found with a mouse-borne virus blamed for the deaths of two people, bringing the total number of infections to six, state health officials said. The new discoveries were made during the agency’s investigation into cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome at the famed park, California […]
