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  • Rescuers search board by board for survivors

    Amid downed power lines, hissing gas pipes and immense devastation, rescuers searched "board by board" Tuesday for survivors and victims of a massive tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City ...

  • Yuba City woman targeted in elaborate debt collection scam

    YUBA CITY, Calif. - A Yuba City woman nearly fell victim to a terrifying scam involving a fake debt collector and a phony cop. Michelle Bertsch received a dozen calls at home and at work on her cellphone in April from a man claiming to be a debt collector. The man demanded Bertsch pay a due balance of $1,395 or pay in installments of $500. But Bertsch didn't owe anyone any money. ...

  • Early Morning Crash in Stockton Kills 1

    File Photo STOCKTON-- Police say that one person is dead, with three more sent to the hospital, after a crash a little after midnight Tuesday. A car heading south along Pershing Avenue near Princeton Avenue hit a tree around 12:24 a.m. First responders declared one occupant of the car dead at the scene. The other three were taken to a local hospital; their conditions have not been released. ...

  • Lawmaker Wants to Change How Schools Admit Homeless Youth

    SACRAMENTO - State Senator Carol Liu wants to speed-up how quickly schools admit homeless youth. She says, ';These kids don’t have parents. The bill addresses the need to let these kids come in, register, participate in sports, get benefits that would be denied to other people.'; She says about 200,000 young people are on the streets. ';We just know what these statistics ...

  • Man Injured In Random Drive-By Shooting

    The incident happened just before 2 a.m. near his house in the area of 44th Street and 10th Avenue. Police say the man and two women had just returned from the store when he was shot. Officials say the driver was the only one hit, but was able to drive himself to the hospital. His van was later towed from the front of the hospital. The victim was not able to provide a suspect description. ...


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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run [DVD]

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run [DVD]

In the early 1950s, with the help of noted film theorist and critic Andr Bazin, 20-year-old Franois Truffaut began writing regularly for the Parisian film journal Cahiers du cinma. He quickly gained a reputation as an uncompromising and often vicious critic with a clear-cut sense of what was great about the cinemahe openly took aim on such previously untouchable French masters as Marcel Car ... ...

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  • UC Hospital Employees Begin 2-Day Strike

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- University of California medical center workers began a two-day strike Tuesday that could involve thousands of employees and prompted postponement of some surgeries. The union representing some 13,000 hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room scrubs and other health care workers began the walkout at 4 a.m. Tuesday at medical facilities in cities including San ...

  • Final spring pickup of green waste set for Sacramento

    The final spring citywide pickup of green waste will be held next week in Sacramento.All yard waste must be placed out for collection no later than 6 a.m. Monday. The city advises residents to keep waste piles about six feet from vehicles and out of gutters and bike lanes.Yard waste acceptable for pick-up by the “claw” machines are leaves, tree trimmings, and shrub trimmings. Call The ...

  • Free admission to Great America amusement park for military on Memorial Day weekend

    America’s military personnel, active and retired, will be given free admission to California’s Great America amusement park on the Memorial Day ...

  • Obituary James Richard Rowoldt was Vietnam combat vet longtime VFW leader

    James Richard Rowoldt, a Vietnam War combat soldier who was a longtime California and national leader in the Veterans of Foreign Wars, died Thursday of cancer and diabetes, his family said. He was 68.Mr. Rowoldt ran the day-to-day operations of the California Department of the VFW as state adjutant/quartermaster since 2008. He oversaw the department headquarters' move to Elk Grove from ...

  • Data Center One in six recent California law school grads cant find jobs

    The job market for California law school graduates remains brutal, even as law school tuition rises to new heights.About 16 percent of 2012 graduates from California law schools were unemployed and looking for work nine months after graduation, according to new data from the American Bar Association.Many others were underemployed. Only half of law school graduates held full-time jobs requiring a ...

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