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Measure H would replace elected county auditor with an appointed official

Yolo County voters will decide next month whether the elected office of auditor-controller/treasurer-tax collector should be eliminated and replaced instead with that of a finance director appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Measure H marks the third time in the past 26 years that voters have faced the issue on the ballot. Similar measures were […]

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Pathologist: Riggins may have put up a fight

SACRAMENTO — The forensic pathologist who conducted murder victim John Riggins’ autopsy said the UC Davis student may have battled for his life in the moments before he died. Dr. Pierce Rooney based his theory on the five lacerations and abrasions inflicted on Riggins’ head by an unidentified blunt object, possibly in an attempt to […]

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Senior Citizens of Davis accept board resignation, transition to interim leadership

Thursday morning, 150 members of the Senior Citizens of Davis arrived at the Senior Center prepared to vote out the organization’s board of directors. Instead, all they had to do was accept the board’s resignation. The entire board and president stepped down earlier this week — just days before the membership had planned to remove […]

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Veteran pilots take back to the skies

Darryl Fisher was smiling from ear to ear as he signed 89-year-old Walt Rozett’s flight log on Thursday, writing an entry below the last time Rozett took to the skies — Oct. 17, 1943.

Rozett served as a U.S. Air Force pilot in World War II. The chance to crawl into the cockpit of 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane for the first time in almost exactly 69 years had him elevated long after the aircraft had touched down.

West Sac, Davis renew interest in water deal; decision on project falls to water committee

After Davis and West Sacramento officials exchanged offers for a surface water deal last month, it appeared a potential agreement between the two cities seemed all but dead. But that opportunity may have been resurrected Thursday when Davis Mayor Joe Krovoza and Councilmen Brett Lee once again met with West Sacramento to talk water. The two […]

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