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  • Murder mystery New details in death of nursing grad Phuong Le

    Tales of the American dream abound for young immigrants like Phuong Le, who emigrated from Vietnam when she was 9. But her parents never imagined this kind of ending for their daughter, who just graduated from nursing ...

  • Sex offender apprehended in rape of Lodi girl

    LODI, CA - A registered sex offender sought in the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Lodi was arrested Monday. John Robert Ganoe allegedly sexually assaulted the girl at knifepoint in a hotel room on the 800 block of S. Cherokee Lane last Wednesday, according to Lodi police Det. Hettie Schaeffer. Ganoe knew the girl and lured her into his room, the detective said. Ganoe was captured with the ...

  • Mont. man dies in Yosemite climbing accident

    YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a Montana man has died in a rock climbing accident as he tried to climb to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. A Yosemite park spokeswoman says 38-year-old Mason Robison was killed after a rock dislodged and severed his rope as he and a partner were about 2,300 feet above the Yosemite Valley floor. Spokeswoman Kari Cobb says ...

  • Detective Slain 10-year-old girl was targeted in calculated attack

    "When they're standing right here and pointing a gun and it's no less than 2 or 3 feet away from the girl, they knew exactly that they were shooting a 10-year old girl," Wallace ...

  • Man Suspected in Attempted Kidnapping Appears in Court

    Sacramento County Superior Court SACRAMENTO- The man accused of throwing a 7-year-old girl in the trunk of his car appeared in court Monday, where his bail amount was increased from $1 million to $4 million. The girl managed to escape. Prosecutors argued that 25-year-old Cedric Holland is a danger to the community and pointed out that this isn’t the first time he was in trouble with ...


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Movie Review

Holes

Holes

Holes is definitely not your typical Disney family movie. Set in a work camp for convicted juveniles in the middle of a dry lakebed in the desolation of deep West Texas, it is visually striking, with the harsh images on screen matched by a surprisingly genuine depiction of troubled youth. Granted, in the end all the juvenile delinquents turn out to be generally good kids at heart, but the ... ...

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  • Modesto Funeral Services Business Remains Under Investigation

    MODESTO- When the story of a Modesto funeral services business that was under investigation broke, Willie Cotton ran to her locket to see if her husband's remains were inside and she found nothing. Cotton has not been able to sleep since for she wants answers. "We have no peace; I have never heard of anything like this I have never planned a funeral, I never cremated no loved ...

  • Police Arrest Man Suspected of Sexually Assaulting Teen

    John Ganoe’s booking photo (Lodi Police) LODI- Lodi Police say they arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl at knifepoint Monday. Lodi officers had help from Stockton Police and the U.S. Marshals. Investigators say a 13-year-old girl that knew 44-year-old John Ganoe reported that he had lured her into a hotel room and sexually assaulted her overnight at ...

  • Daily thought Sacramento park without play area

    Resident's who live near the park on Franklin Blvd in South Sacramento just before one reaches Mack Road, are confused. Resident's want to know why they waited over a year for the city to build the park that will not have a biking area, a skating area or even a play structure. It seems logical to most that a park should have a children's theme. Children need a place to play ...

  • Californias political power couple collaborate compromise

    Jerry Brown wasn't supposed to end up dating Anne Gust. She only intended to play matchmaker for a friend. "I grew up a Republican in Michigan, and didn't think much about Jerry Brown in my life," she says of that time back in the early 1990s in San Francisco. "In getting the two of them together, it sort of backfired on me." Now more than two decades later, Anne ...

  • Two-Mile-Wide Tornado Kills at Least 51 Including 7 Elementary School Students

    Rescue workers raced against time and the oncoming night Monday looking for survivors after a powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City, leveling homes and killing at least 51 people. At least seven of the dead were children from Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, which lay directly in the path of the monster storm’s wall of wind. Seventy-five students and staff ...

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