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Economic conditions again cloud Sonoma County Fair animal auctions

With the Sonoma County Fair set to start July 27, fair officials are still scrambling to nail down buyers for the 910 animals that have raised by teens a pre-teens tand are set to be sold at auction.

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Santa Rosa kidnap-rape case ends as sexual battery

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Apple delays white iPhone 4 to later this year

Apple says the white version of the iPhone 4 will not be available until later this year.

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Sonoma Valley Bank posts $2.2M profit

Sonoma Valley Bank posted a $2.2 million profit, its first since large loan losses pushed it to the brink of ruin late last year.

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Gingras lives in the Land of What Is

The benign nature of the action, thats what still leaves Rob Gingras speechless and bewildered, even now, five months after it happened. It wasnt like Gingras went into a bar, broke a beer bottle over a stool and challenged the first 10 guys he saw to a fight. At least that would have carried a risk that could merit a horrific result. At least that would have made sense. But this!

Arraignment delayed in DUI deaths of Cloverdale women

A San Francisco woman charged with drunken driving in a crash that killed two Cloverdale women made her first court appearance Friday, surrounded by family and friends.

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No broken bones for umpire punched at Babe Ruth baseball game

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Sputtering economy spreading new fears

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Calix boosts sales 50 percent

Calix Inc. reported sales jumped 50 percent in the second quarter while the Petaluma telecom supplier cut its losses by more than 60 percent. The reason? Telecom companies are beefing up networks to deliver broadband.

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Contador nears Tour title; Cavandish wins stage

Alberto Contador kept the yellow jersey Friday and closed in on another Tour de France title while Mark Cavendish of Britain again showed hes one of cyclings best sprinters.

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Sonoma Co settles gay discrimination suit

Sonoma County has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by an elderly gay man who says social workers kept him from seeing his dying partner in the hospital. Clay Greene filed a lawsuit earlier this year, claiming the countys Public Guardian program...

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Ariz. judge raises the realities of porous border

The judge who will decide whether Arizonas new immigration law is constitutional hasnt indicated whether shell put the statute on hold before it takes effect next week and had some pointed questions Thursday for challengers at two court hearings. U.S...

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Bonnie lands near Miami, headed for Gulf oil spill

Tropical Storm Bonnie has made landfall in Florida south of Miami with top sustained winds of 40 miles per hour (65 kph). The storm was headed over South Florida on a track to cross the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the massive BP oil spill by Sunday. The...

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Gasoline pump prices are heading higher

Drivers may want to fill up their SUVs, hybrids and motorcycles this weekend, because higher gasoline prices could be right around the corner. Retail gasoline prices are expected to increase by as much as a nickel a gallon in the next few days on the heels of...

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Support for oil drilling falls, Field Poll shows

BPs three-month oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have hardened Californians long-held opposition to offshore drilling, a new poll shows. Sixty-one percent of California voters oppose drilling new oil and natural gas wells in the states coastal...