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Northern California landslide stabilizes

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:07:23 -0400

LAKEPORT, California - Officials say a Northern California subdivision that partly sank into a hilltop has stabilized after several homes, roads and sections of a sewer system were damaged.

Holocaust prisoners book to be returned to Poland

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:29:08 -0400

SANTA ROSA, California - A Northern California woman intends to return a book of poems and drawings written and drawn by Polish prisoners at a World War II concentration camp to Poland.

Unclaimed veterans' remains laid to rest in Calif.

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:57:01 -0400

SANTA ROSA, California - The unclaimed remains of 35 military veterans and two military wives have been given formal military burials in Northern California.

Rare island fox rebounds on California islands

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:33:16 -0400

LOS ANGELES - A rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said Monday.

Levi Leipheimer announces retirement from cycling

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:35:06 -0400

SANTA ROSA, California - American Levi Leipheimer says he retired from professional cycling when his six-month ban for doping violations ended March 1 and he was unable to sign with a new team.

Tejay van Garderen wins Tour of California

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:58:10 -0400

SANTA ROSA, California - Always close to the front but never first at the end, Tejay van Garderen would often wear himself out wondering if he could swap the white jersey that goes to the best young rider for the yellow one that goes to the winner.

Social media rules given for adult beverage makers

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:14:04 -0400

SANTA ROSA, California - Wine, beer and spirits makers that use social media to promote beverages must abide by new federal guidelines governing the practice.

Suit against Calif. Indian casino dismissed

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:10:41 -0400

ROHNERT PARK, California - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by opponents of a Native American casino under construction in Northern California.

Man convicted in North Coast Ponzi scheme

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:56:50 -0400

REDDING, California - A man accused of cheating North Coast residents out of hundreds of millions of dollars in what prosecutors characterized as one of the largest real estate Ponzi schemes in California history has been convicted by a Shasta County jury.

Calif. woman, 88, trapped in car more than 2 days

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:31:14 -0400

SANTA ROSA, California - An 88-year-old Northern California was recovering at a hospital on Tuesday after spending the weekend trapped inside her overturned car in an embankment.

Woman found after more than 2 days in crashed car

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:23:29 -0400

SANTA ROSA, California - Authorities say an 88-year-old woman is hospitalized in serious condition after spending more than two days in her car after it crashed and went down an embankment on a rural Sonoma County road.

Power strip blamed for deadly Calif. fire

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:50:06 -0400

CLOVERDALE, California - Fire officials in Sonoma County say a blaze that tore through a mobile home, killing a couple and their young son, started in an overloaded power strip.

4th abalone diver dies in waters off Northern CA

Sun, 05 May 2013 02:02:08 -0400

SANTA ROSA, California - A diver died Saturday in the quest for abalone that has claimed three other lives in the waters off Northern California the past week.

Mendocino County protestors come down from tree

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:10:04 -0400

WILLITS, California - The last two tree-sitters protesting the construction of a Highway 101 bypass in Mendocino County have come down from their branches.

3 divers killed over weekend off California coast

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:43:41 -0400

SANTA ROSA, California - Three recreational abalone divers died in separate incidents over the weekend in Northern California, where powerful rip currents were reported.