Redistricting and Longer Term Limits Again In Spotlight

     SACRAMENTO (AP) – California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is
proposing a redistricting measure for the November ballot,
competing with one supported by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
     Nunez’s political-reform measure would be paired with an attempt
to modify lawmakers’ term limits.
     The Los Angeles Democrat will be termed out of the Legislature
in December and says he will use his [...]

Famous Ice Cream Man Dies

     LOS ANGELES (AP) – Irvine Robbins, co-founder of the ice cream
chain Baskin-Robbins, has died. He was 90.
     His daughter Marsha Veit says Robbins died yesterday at
Eisenhower Medical Center in the desert community of Rancho Mirage,
She says he had been in ill health for some time.
     Robbins was born on December 6th, 1917, in Winnipeg, [...]

McCain Zeroes In On Obama And Judges

     WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) – John McCain is taking aim at
potential Democratic rival Barack Obama for voting against John
Roberts for U.S. chief justice.
     McCain told an audience at Wake Forest University in North
Carolina that Obama also opposed Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Alito. He says that amounts to following a partisan line against
two judges McCain says he’ll [...]

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US Military says 3,500 Troops set to Leave Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) – The U.S. military says 3,500 soldiers sent to Iraq last summer as part of the so-called surge will soon be leaving. A military statement released last night says the soldiers will redeploy to the U.S. in the coming weeks. The increase in troops – along with the rise of Sunni fighters who [...]

Bus Tour Protesting Budget Cuts Swings by the North State

The Northstate is the latest stop on the statewide tour for the “Cuts Hurt” bus tour. David Sanchez is President of the California Teachers Association and says the idea is to lobby the Governor and state lawmakers against making almost 900 million dollars worth of cuts in the state university and community college system.
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Helicopter Rescues Man Stuck on Roof of S-U-V in Yuba-Sutter

A helicopter was involved in a rescue effort on the Yuba River Monday night. According to the Appeal-Democrat, a man in an S-U-V landed in the river…most of the vehicle was submerged, but the driver
climbed onto the roof. The helicopter was able to get close enough to the man for rescuers to pull him to [...]

New Study: Home Prices Drop Again

SEATTLE (AP) – According to a new study, home values in the first quarter of this year were down 7.7 percent from a year earlier. The web site Zillow.com, which tracks home prices, says more than half of homeowners who purchased during the market peak in 2006 owe more on their mortgages than the home [...]