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13-Year-Old Everest Climber Nearing Top of the World

By David KnowlesApr 26th 2010 – 7:00PM
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(April 26) -- In a bid to become the youngest person ever to successfully summit Mount Everest, a 13-year-old California boy is well on his way to climbing glory. Led by a group of experienced Nepalese Sherpas, Jordan Romero of Big Bear Lake, Calif., is now more than 20,000 feet up on this journey to the 29,035-foot...

Man Gets 7-Year Sentence For Stealing Cheese

By David KnowlesMar 3rd 2010 – 3:42PM

(March 3) -- Mice beware. A Woodland, Calif., man convicted of swiping a package of shredded cheese from a grocery store was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison Monday, The Sacramento Bee newspaper reports. Prosecutors had originally asked the judge in the case for a life sentence for Robert Ferguson...

Female Serial Killer's California Home For Sale

By David KnowlesFeb 26th 2010 – 9:28PM
AP

AP

(Feb. 26) -- It isn't exactly a real estate agent's dream sales pitch: How would you like to live in a house once owned by a serial killer? But one newly listed four-bedroom Sacramento, Calif., house comes with such a pedigree. For it was there, at 1426 F St., that Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in the 1980s and is...

Background on Ca.

Canada () is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean.

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