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The Winners!
RED WINES
Cabernet Sauvignon
Ancient Peaks, $15+, Paso Robles, 2009, 90 pts.
Beringer Founders’ Estate, Under $15, California, 2008, 92 pts.
Blackstone, Under $30, Reserve, Sonoma County, 2007, 93 pts.
BR Cohn Winery, Under $30,...Tags: Landforms, Wakefield (Bronx, New York), Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia), Caves and Caverns, Calaveras County (California)
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Post-Sentencing Garrido House Still In Limbo
FOX40 ReporterWith boarded up windows, a drooping fence and waist-deep weeds, the home sitting at 1554 Walnut Avenue in Antioch couldn't be called "charming" by a realtor and has zero curb appeal. According to Contra Costa County, the land and home where Jaycee Lee...Tags: Sacramento, El Dorado County (California), Antioch (Contra Costa, California), Justice System, Real Estate
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Man charged in slayings of four women in Northern California; victims share alliteration of names
L.A. NOWDid their names play a part in their deaths at the hands of a serial killer? A Nevada man was charged Wednesday in Marin County with the slayings of four women from 1977 to 1994 in Northern California. The victims:...... -
Photographer Charged in Murders of 4 Women With Matching Initials
KTLA NewsSAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- A freelance photographer is charged with four counts of murder in the deaths of four northern California women dating back more than three decades, authorities said Tuesday. Joseph Naso, 77, was arrested Monday by Marin County...Tags: El Dorado County (California), Juvenile Delinquency, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, California
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Port Chicago, site of a World War II home front tragedy, is a classroom today
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe bombs erupted along Pier No. 1, thousands of them, about 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. And 66 years later, you can still spot a few twisted hunks of metal near water's edge, an American flag snapping in the wind overhead. This is Port...Tags: San Francisco, Columbus, Explosions, History, African Americans
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Murder Suspect Shot After Refusing to Drop Meat Cleaver
KTLA NewsVALLEJO, Calif. -- Police are looking for a missing man as part of their investigation into a murder suspect who led officers on a high-speed chase with his dead girlfriend in the passenger seat, according to police. Efren Valdemoro, 38, was shot and...Tags: Missing Persons, Crimes, Fairfield (Solano, California), Crime, Law and Justice, KTLA
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Authorities Searching Garrido Home For Clues In Other Abductions
FOX40 NewsPolice are searching the Antioch home of Phillip Garrido hoping to find evidence related to the disappearances of two children from the 1980s. Authorities from the Hayward and Dublin Police Departments, investigating the disappearances of Ilene Misheloff...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Sex, University of California, Berkeley, Sexual Assault, Phillip Garrido
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Voters Face Minor Glitches In CA. Primary Elections
Associated PressNo major problems were reported in California's primary election Tuesday but GOP officials said they were concerned about electronic vote-counting in rural Nevada County. Gail Smith, assistant clerk recorder for Nevada County, said scanners that read...Tags: Local Elections, Career and Workplace, Employees, Bell (Los Angeles, California), Primaries
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Shell Oil paying millions for tank violations
GreenspaceShell Oil Co. will pay $19.5 million in civil penalties and fees to settle a state complaint involving hundreds of environmental violations at its California gas stations. A state investigation found problems with leak detection and monitoring of... -
California population now close to 39 million
FOX 5 San Diego StaffCalifornia added 393,000 new people in 2009, with San Diego, state's second largest city, gaining more than 17,000, according to a new report from the state Department of Finance. The numbers released Thursday estimate 38.6 million people now live in the...Tags: San Francisco, San Diego (San Diego, California), Monterey County, Los Angeles, Riverside County (California)
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2-year old Boy Mauled to Death by 3 Pit Bulls
KTLA NewsCONCORD, Calif. -- Police are investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who was mauled to death by the family's 3 pit bulls. The attacked was reported at a home on Trail Creek Court at about 8:45 a.m. The boy was home with two adult family members...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Concord (Contra Costa, California), KTLA, Health, Family
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Toll Booth Murder Suspect Returned to Richmond
FOX40 NewsNathaniel Burris, the suspect arrested in yesterday's Bay Area tollbooth double murder, has been picked up by Richmond Police. Burris was handed over from the Auburn Jail, despite his attempts to fight extradition. He will face charges in Contra Costa...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, San Rafael (Marin, California), California, Extradition, International Law
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