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GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA’s controversies are far from over. The Scouts’ longstanding ban on gay [...]
EARTHQUAKE ALERT … although 99.9 percent of Davisites claim to have felt last night’s Susanville-centered earthquake, in actuality only those Davisites who happened to be in Susanville felt it … And while there was much giggling all around and a few “where were you when the earthquake struck?” conversations, it wasn’t funny in East Davis, [...]
For the second time this month, Woodland police are investigating an assault on a homeless man behind a vacant business. Sgt. Steve Sexton said officers were dispatched shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday to the former State Theater building on Main Street to investigate reports of “subjects fighting with knives and baseball bats.” A 57-year-old man [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the Republican-led House approved legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial markets. The Republican-backed bill would allow students to dodge a scheduled rate hike for students with new subsidized Stafford loans next month, but rates [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A two-day strike held by workers at University of California hospitals over staffing and pension is coming to an end. Union officials set the end of the strike for 4 a.m. Thursday, after thousands of hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room assistants and other health care workers observed the 48-hour walkout. [...]
“Sign up now for city subsidy on water bills,” said the straightforward headline in this very newspaper. “As new water rates take effect this month, the city of Davis has introduced a program to help low-income homeowners offset the higher costs.” I heartily endorse such a program, given that water rates will indeed skyrocket and [...]
Wednesday’s story about the Davis Water Advisory Committee’s meeting to hear arguments from people opposed to fluoridation lacked important details. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Community Chambers at Davis City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd. Watch it live on City Government Channel 16 on Comcast and on AT&T U-Verse Channel 99. ———— [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials said Wednesday. The shooting early Wednesday took place in Orlando, Fla., where an FBI agent along with other law enforcement personnel were interviewing the man, identified as 27-year-old Ibragim [...]
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin walked up her driveway to what was left of her house for 40 years. It was the 83-year-old grandmother’s first time back at her home since a monstrous and deadly tornado ravaged her neighborhood in suburban Oklahoma City. Part of the roof was [...]
LEGAL WORD GAMES … I realize as citizens of this great country that we’re duty-bound to consider all criminal suspects “innocent until proven guilty,” so for now I’ll leave out the name of the defendant accused of the terrible early-morning assault upon Davis resident Mikey Partida two months ago in East Davis … actually, “innocent [...]
Early Tuesday morning, Rick Martinez, interim emergency service manager for the Yolo County Office of Emergency Services, departed for Oklahoma City as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to the deadly tornado that hit Moore, Okla., on Monday. Martinez, former chief of the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, has been serving as the interim [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military chief has issued a stern warning to Syrian leader Bashar Assad after an Israeli military jeep came under fire from Syrian forces early Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told a conference on Tuesday that Israel will not allow the Golan Heights “to become a comfortable sphere for Assad to operate [...]
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Emergency crews combed the sticks and rubble remains of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday morning, less than a day after a massive tornado slammed through the community, flattening homes and demolishing an elementary school. At least 24 people were killed, including at least seven children, and those numbers were expected to [...]
