New Video Surfaces of Adam Gadahn
The al-Qaida spokesman raised in Riverside County and supposedly killed in a recent U.S. air strike released a new video, saying the economic crisis in the United States is the result of its unsustainable military campaigns and evidence of its people turning away from Allah.
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Dow closes under 10,000 points
Wall Street suffered through another extraordinary and traumatic session Monday.
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6 Oct 2008 at 10:48am

Cats crowned in Palm Springs shows
About 200 of the nation's most purr-fect pets were in the Coachella Valley Saturday and Sunday to determine which felines are the best of the best.
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6 Oct 2008 at 3:41am

Ohio Murder Suspect Captured in the Valley in Court Monday
A 72-year-old man wanted in connection with a 41-year-old murder case involving an Ohio girl who was held captive in a fruit cellar, raped and tortured before she was killed, is scheduled to appear in Riverside Superior Court Monday for an extradition hearing.
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Coachella and Stagecoach a week earlier
The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the subsequent Stagecoach Country Music Festival will be moved up a week earlier than ever before, it was announced today.
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6 Oct 2008 at 2:29am

Palm Springs streets closed longer for extended VillageFest
Palm Springs VillageFest is now open from 6 to 10 p.m. each Thursday in downtown Palm Springs.
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6 Oct 2008 at 3:37am

West Nile Fogging Continues in Palm Springs
A three-day operation to eradicate West Nile virus-carrying mosquitoes will enter its second day Monday in a section of Palm Springs.
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Riverside County 4th in gay marriages
Almost 1,250 of the roughly 11,000 same-sex couples who have gotten married since such unions were legalized in California in June tied the knot in Riverside County, according to a study released today.
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6 Oct 2008 at 4:47pm

Medicare workshops held at Mizell Senior Center in Palm Springs
The Inland Agency HICAP and Mizell Senior Center are hosting a series of Medicare workshops at the senior center on Thursdays, through Oct. 23.
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6 Oct 2008 at 3:36am

Tribes to Local Governments: Don't Expect a Bailout
Local Indian tribes sent a Friday message to city and county governments not to expect a bailout from their casinos.
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Pest control sprays for West Nile virus in Palm Springs
West Nile virus has been detected in adult mosquitoes in a section of Palm Springs and pest-control workers launched a three-day "fogging" attack on the insects starting Sunday.
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6 Oct 2008 at 2:47pm

Free Broadway music event offered at Palm Springs hotel
Musical numbers from Broadway will be performed at 7 p.m. Oct. 14 at Hotel Zoso, 150 S. Indian Canyon Drive.
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6 Oct 2008 at 3:34am

How to Teach Your Kids About the Economy
The financial crisis on wall street is hitting families where it hurts. And parents are being forced to teach their children some hard lessons about money and making ends meet.
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‘Smart' drivers love car
Roy Komassa gets some funny looks and comments while driving around town. “A couple people have yelled out the window ‘The back of your car is missing,' ” the Palm Springs resident said.
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6 Oct 2008 at 2:56am

SF Gate

Judge: Calif. must pay for prison health care
A federal judge scolded California officials on Monday for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state's prison health care system. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson made it clear he expects...

Contra Costa Times: Bay & State

Police investigate Alameda home invasion
ALAMEDA — Four men invaded an apartment on San Jose Avenue Friday night, forcing the three residents to the floor at gunpoint before they stole a computer and other electronic equipment, police said.
by phegarty@cctimes.com (Peter Hegarty / Staff Writer)
6 Oct 2008 at 2:32pm

DNA reveals identity of San Francisco murder victim -- 37 years later
A woman whose body was found in a San Joaquin County canal more than 30 years ago has been identified through DNA testing as missing San Francisco resident Mary Alice Willey
by editor@contracostatimes.com (Mike Martinez/Staff)
6 Oct 2008 at 1:35pm

Veteran Hayward officer paving way for future generation of cops
Inspector John Lage investigates homicides and mentors young police Explorers.
by editor@contracostatimes.com (Kristofer Noceda / The Daily Review)
6 Oct 2008 at 11:17am

Two dead, two recovering in Mavericks fishing accident
Rough waters lead fishing boat to capsize near famous surf spot
by editor@contracostatimes.com (Aaron Morrison / STAFF WRITER)
6 Oct 2008 at 1:38am

Sacramento Bee Local News

Former Rio Americano teacher convicted of 11 molestation counts
Gregory Rayburn, a former Rio Americano High School teacher, was convicted by jury of 11 counts of annoying or molesting a child and one count of sexual battery, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office said Monday.
6 Oct 2008 at 7:17pm


Pastor walks a fine line in supporting Prop. 8, welcoming gays
Fifteen minutes before his first sermon Sunday, the Rev. Rick Cole reviews his notes in his office one last time.
The Rev. Rick Cole gives a sermon about Proposition 8 – which he backs – Sunday at Capital Christian Center. "I want to make it clear that I … do welcome and yes, love those who disagree with me," he said. Below, congregants at the 8 a.m. service react to the sermon.
During Sunday's first service at Capital Christian Center, the Rev. Rick Cole makes a point. "We're all sinners," at one point he told his congregants, 4,000 of whom typically attend the weekly services. "Too often we forget that."
by jgarza@sacbee.com (Jennifer Garza)
6 Oct 2008 at 2:08am

3rd person dies in wrong-way I-5 crash
The wrong-way Interstate 5 collision that took two lives last weekend has taken another, a young mother and wife who was placed on life support last weekend.
6 Oct 2008 at 6:05pm


Witness: Bus driven erratically before fatal crash
A witness said he saw the bus that crashed and killed eight people in Colusa County careening along a country road before the wreck. The driver has been arrested on a charge of driving under the influence. The bus' owner was killed in the crash.
Driver had record of violations
CHP identifies seven killed in bus crash
Tales about bus crash victims
More photos of the crash site
At the CHP facility in Williams, Assistant Chief Stephen Bell talks to the press Monday about the bus crash in Williams. At least eight people were killed and dozens were injured when the charter bus overturned on a rural road on the way to Colusa Casino Resort.
Angel Saechao, 8, youngest daughter of the bus owner, Daniel Cobb, 68, sits in her Elk Grove home, Monday Oct. 6, 2008.
Bus owner, Daniel Cobb, 68, photographed from a a family photo, Monday Oct. 6, 2008.
At the crash site, Cher Vang covers her face upset over her mother that she still can't find. Her mother Khou Yang was one of the passengers on the bus that crashed in Williams, CA., Sunday. Cher was with her husband looking for her mother at the site, Monday, October 6, 2008.
Stephen Bell, assistant chief of the Northern Division of the California Highway Patrol, listens to a reporter's question concerning Sunday's deadly crash of a charter bus, during a news conference held in Williams, Calif. on Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Eight people were killed and dozens were injured when the charter bus overturned on a rural road on it's way to an American Indian casino.
The charter bus inside a wrecking yard in Williams, Monday, October 6, 2008, the day after the fatal crash on a rural two lane road near Williams, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008.
The bus that crashed and killed eight of the 43 people on board, today stands in a Williams wrecking yard after being cleared from the crash site on Lone Star Lane.
Emergency personnel rush a victim to an ambulance at the scene of a charter bus accident Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008 on a rural two lane road near Williams, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. Eight people died and several were injured in the crash north of Sacramento on Lone Star Road south of Highway 20 in Colusa County.
Emergency responders search through high weeds in a water filled ditch after a tour bus crashed on a rural two lane road near Williams, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. Eight people died and several were injured in the accident on the way to a casino resort 60 miles north of Sacramento.
A tour bus lies in a water filled ditch after crashing on a rural two lane road near Williams, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. At least 10 people died and several were injured when the bus crashed while carrying passengers to a casino resort 60 miles north of Sacramento.
Emergency crews search for survivors of a fatal bus crash late Sunday, October 5, 2008 in rural Yolo County. At least 10 people were killed and dozens others injured when a privately owned tour bus headed from Sacramento to a Colusa-area casino flipped over on a two-lane road near Williams, officials said.
A tour bus lies in a water filled ditch after crashing on a rural two lane road near Williams, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. At least 10 people died and several were injured in theaccident north of Sacramento.
by afurillo@sacbee.com (Niesha Lofing and Tony Bizjak)
6 Oct 2008 at 2:00am

Televised mayoral debate scheduled tonight
Sacramento mayoral candidates Heather Fargo and Kevin Johnson will face off tonight in their first televised debate of the runoff election.
by nlofing@sacbee.com (Niesha Lofing)
6 Oct 2008 at 2:20pm

Police seek man who robbed Roseville pharmacy for painkillers
A man armed with a handgun robbed a Rite Aid pharmacy Sunday evening on Douglas Boulevard in Roseville and escaped with a bag of highly addictive, prescription painkillers.
6 Oct 2008 at 6:02pm


Mental Health Court makes strides, but funds drying up
Every week, Superior Court Judge Jaime Román finds a reason among a pile of stuffed manila folders to lead applause in his courtroom.
Terrell Baker loads a bed and other items Friday being supplied by his employer, Turning Point Community Programs, to a needy client. The Army veteran, 44, has struggled with being schizophrenic and bipolar but now is a graduate of Mental Health Court.
Mental Health Court client Virgil Rheinbolt, 63, of Fair Oaks and his wife, Ruth, listen to Jim Hughes in the courtroom last week. Hughes, a county probation officer, says of the program: "I'm a believer."
Sienna Riffa, left, an assistant public defender for Sacramento County, reviews case records last week with Mental Health Court client William Scott Linton, 39. His mother, Evelynn Carr, looks on.
by menkoji@sacbee.com (M.S. Enkoji)
6 Oct 2008 at 2:00am

Death prompts caution over cotton clothing
The death Saturday of a woman caught in an early-season storm while hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail near Truckee makes Steve Twomey shiver.
6 Oct 2008 at 2:00am


Proper disposal of old drugs is changing
Hoping to keep streams and groundwater cleaner, the people who run sewage plants around California want to change the way we get rid of old medicines.
Jackie Frye, a hazardous-materials technician for Placer County, pours discarded medications into a bin last week at the county's disposal facility in Lincoln.
by cpeytondahlberg@sacbee.com (Carrie Peyton Dahlberg)
6 Oct 2008 at 2:00am

Back-seat Driver: Sacramento's light-rail mystery
Sacramento Regional Transit has a nine- second mystery on its hands.
by tbizjak@sacbee.com (Tony Bizjak)
6 Oct 2008 at 2:00am

LA Times: California

6 found dead in Porter Ranch murder-suicide, police say
Police say an unemployed financial advisor shot and killed his wife, mother-in-law, and three sons before turning the gun on himself.

An unemployed financial advisor apparently despondent over his troubles shot and killed his wife, his mother-in-law and three children before taking his own life in a gated community in the northwest San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles police said today.