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Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Sonoma have all reported sharp increases in graffiti vandalism in the last few months. During a recent sting operation, Santa Rosa police arrested a notorious tagger when he came into a paint store to buy supplies. Now, the police are asking the community to help end the problem.
WATONWAN COUNTY BOARD SYNOPSIS OF MEETING JUNE 17, 2008 Present: John Baerg, Bill Berg, Mark Rentz, Dwayne Krenz and Scott Sanders.
As you may have heard, we had an earthquake here in Southern California on Tuesday, July 29th. Measuring a “mild” 5.4 on the Richter scale, it was enough for our house to shake for minutes, the water in the pool to wash over the sides, and to scare us out of our PJs. Seismologists have drilled into us Californians that there is a 99% chance that the big one will hit in the next 30 years, so the common thought that comes to mind is: “Is this it?” URGENT NOTE: The Red Cross has just establis
Convoy of Hope will hold a one-day “compassion outreach” in Marshfield Saturday.
First Baptist Church is now accepting registration for soccer for pre-K to 18-year-olds, flag football for pre-K to sixth-graders and adult basketball for 18 and up. Contact Katie Thomas at 872-2264 for information.
OMRON Corporation (TOKYO:6645)(ADR:OMRNY) today reported consolidated results for the first quarter of fiscal 2008, ending March 31, 2009.
Available in direct thermal and combination of direct thermal/thermal transfer versions, G-Series is suited for printing receipts, price marking tags, shipping and return labels, and boarding passes. Connectivity options include 802.11g, Bluetooth wireless, and 10/100 Ethernet for network integration. Printers feature LCD display, co-resident native ZPL and EPL programming languages, and remote …
NASHUA, N.H., July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — iCAD, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICAD), an industry-leading provider of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) solutions for the early identification of cancer, today announced record financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008. Financial highlights for the second quarter of 2008 include …..
The How and Why of Darfur By Eric Reeves / 2005 Sudan http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php [informative CURRENT link] In one of the most remote places in Africa, an insurgency began unnoticed under the shadow of the war in Iraq in 2003, killing 350,000 to 400,000 people in 29 months by means of violence, malnutrition, and disease in the first genocidal rampage of the 21st century. The insurgency began virtually unnoticed in February 2003; it has, over the past two years, precipitate
More than 7,000 photos of graffiti vandalism have been collected in Santa Rosa in the past year, images ranging from gang names and numbers to the personal cartoons and initials of taggers.
iCAD, Inc. , an industry-leading provider of Computer-Aided Detection solutions for the early identification of cancer, today announced record financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008.
Children of low-income families will head back to their classrooms in September with free backpacks full of new school supplies, thanks to the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
Royal Dutch Shell’s second quarter 2008 earnings, on a
Aside from a cracked valve in a water pipeline near La Verne and repairs to Pomona City Hall that officials estimate will cost $100,000, the area remained mostly unscathed by Tuesday’s magnitude-5.4 • Photo Gallery: Experts discuss Tuesday’s 5.4 Quake
Aside from a cracked valve in a water pipeline near La Verne and repairs to Pomona City Hall that officials estimate will cost $100,000, the area remained mostly unscathed by Tuesday’s magnitude-5. • Photo Gallery: Experts discuss Tuesday’s 5.4 Quake
The state courts plan to keep doing business with two cleaning companies that the Carcieri administration fired last week after 31 of their custodians were arrested as suspected illegal immigrants.
Officials with the two agencies have created “Operation Safe Medicine Cabinet” to help the public safely discard old medicines and prevent them from getting in the wrong hands or contaminating rivers and lakes.
The Lake County Community Traffic Safety Team will present its annual Back-to-School Safety Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Lake Square Mall on U.S. Highway 441 in Leesburg.
Staff Sergeant (SSG) Richard Monaco experienced a poignant return home to Martha’s Vineyard on July 9, after completing eight months in Iraq on his third tour.
St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office and St. Lucie County Fire District have created “Operation Safe Medicine Cabinet” to help the public safely discard old medicines and prevent them from getting in the wrong hands or contaminating rivers and lakes.
Sponsored hotel card keys are getting to be common at conferences, but at the Ag Media Summit it was the first time I noticed them being made from corn-based plastic. I don’t usually scrutinize my hotel card keys, so there could very well have been at any one or more of the meetings I have been at in the last year or two – but I noticed it this time. Apparently these cards have been commercially available for about two years. CornCard USA offers the product, which can also be used for credit c
Angelina Jolie will have to adopt a lot more babies to make up for the pollution of life-denying movies like Wanted. Our celebrity-worshipping culture rarely asks actors to account for their film choices as political choices.
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As you load up the family vehicle or rental truck to take your child to college later this summer, leave the satellite dish off your packing list. A little common sense goes a long way when determining what to pack for a student’s first, or any, year at school, says a residential housing director at Washington University in St. Louis.