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Loaded rifle explosive device found during Butte Co. traffic stop

COHASSET, Calif. - A seemingly routine traffic stop resulted in a call out for the Butte County bomb squad Tuesday. Butte County Sheriff's Dept. Sergeant Mike Lydon said a deputy stopped Wayne Alan Smith on Coasset Rd. at approximately 5:50 p.m. During the stop, the deputy discovered a loaded rifle in the vehicle. The deputy then performed a complete search of the vehicle and found a ...
Was TWA Flight 800 crash accidental

Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was ...
San Jose suing Major League Baseball over A’s Stadium Issue

SAN JOSE - The 2013 Oakland A’s are young and thriving at the top of their division.The same cannot be said abouttheir stadium, the O.co Coliseum,which was constructed in 1966. Now the City of San Jose is suingMajor League Baseball and Commissioner Bud Selig for the right to builda new stadium for the A’s. ';Major League baseball has no right whatsoever to deny the tenth ...
Former child hero accused of torture murder of Davis couple

DAVIS, CA - A teenage boy, once honored for saving his father's life, remained in custody Tuesday night accused of torturing and killing an elderly Davis couple. Daniel Marsh is only 16, but he'll be tried as an adult for the murders of Oliver Northup, 87, and his wife Claudia Maupin, ...
700 allowed home as Mariposa wildfire slows

MARIPOSA, CA (AP) - Nearly half the people who had to evacuate their Northern California homes are being allowed to return as firefighters catch up with a wildfire near the main route into Yosemite National Park. Officials with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said evacuation orders for some 700 people would expire at 8 p.m. local time Tuesday. About 800 people remain ...

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The Little Mermaid [DVD]

It may be hard to believe in an age when Disney animated films are considered failures when they only gross $100 million, but there was a time not too long ago when the Disney animated studio was in trouble. After turning out numerous classics during the '30s, '40s, and '50s, the animation division had begun to sink into mediocrity, and the '70s and '80s produced interesting but flat films lik ... ...

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Afghanistan suspends security pact talks with U.S. amid Taliban peace process

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen following a security handover ceremony at a military academy outside Kabul June 18, ...
Teen once lauded as hero is charged in Davis double-homicide case

Police tape limits access April 15 to the home in Davis where Oliver Northup and his wife, Claudia Maupin, were found fatally stabbed. Davis police received assistance from the FBI, the state and other jurisdictions in the ...
Sacramento gains 200 new jobs in mortgage industry

Sacramento is getting 200 new jobs in the mortgage industry, sopping up some of the talent left over from the housing crash.PennyMac Loan Services of Moorpark, in Ventura County, has already hired 40 workers and will ramp up to a total of 200 jobs eventually, the company said Tuesday. Its decision to come to the region was announced by SACTO, the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade ...
Blue Diamond opens first phase of major plant in Turlock

Blue Diamond officials hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the plant, whose first phase will employ 100 workers directly related to ...
Flood plan would pile tons of rocks at Brannon Island park

A fisherman tries his luck Tuesday across from Brannan Island, one strategic point in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta where state officials plan to store large piles of rock and sand to use in case of a flood to bolster weakened ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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US immigration bill clears key senate hurdle

As a major immigration bill that would give over 11 million people, including some 260,000 Indians, living illegally in America a path to citizenship, it received a full endorsement from President Barack Obama.

"If you're serious about actually fixing the system, then this is the vehicle to do it," he said Tuesday at the White House, flanked by immigration reform supporters, hours before a strong Senate majority voted to open debate on it.

"If you're not serious about it, if you think that a broken system is the best America can do, then I guess it might make sense to try to block it," he said referring to the bill drafted by a bipartisan "gang of eight", four Democrats and four Republicans.

"But if you're actually serious and sincere about fixing a broken immigration system, this is the vehicle to do it," he said flanked among others by young undocumented students and the US Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, Tom Donohue.

"This bill isn't perfect, it's a compromise," Obama said. "And going forward, nobody is going to get everything they want. Not Democrats, not Republicans, not me. But this is a bill that's largely consistent with the principles that I and the people on this stage have laid out for common-sense reform. ...