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Man Charged With 4 Cold-Case Killings in Calif.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- A strange coincidence? Or a glimpse into the twisted mind of a serial killer? Four California women who investigators believe were murdered by the same man all had alliterative names: Carmen Colon, Roxene Roggasch, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya. The suspect, a 77-year-old petty thief and freelance...

Calif., Ore. Sustain Most Damage From Tsunami

CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- The warnings traveled quickly across the Pacific in the middle of the night: An 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan spawned a deadly tsunami, and it was racing east Friday as fast as a jetliner. Sirens blared in Hawaii. The West Coast pulled back from the shoreline, fearing the worst. People were...

California Braces Calmly for Waves From Tsunami

Waves from the Japanese earthquake are expected to hit California shortly after 11 a.m. EST, but it won't be the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters. Meteorologists estimate that Northern California will be struck first at 11:16 a.m. with waves between 3 and 7 feet high, with the swell subsiding as it moves down the coast. It...

Do You Tweet Southern? Twitter Keeping Regional Dialects Alive, Study Finds

You can take the Twitter out of New York, but can you take New Yawk out of the Twitter? A study at Carnegie Mellon University has found that Twitter has its own geographic dialects. The authors examined 380,000 tweets during a one-week period in March and discerned distinctive linguistic characteristics based on the...

100-Ounce Gold Nugget Could Fetch $400,000

A gold nugget found in Northern California is going on the auction block in March -- and the rare find could fetch a high price. The nugget, which weighs nearly 100 ounces, was found in February near the town of Washington. The current price of gold would make that chunk worth about $135,000, but one expert, Fred...

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06/01/12 Venus takes center stage around Northern California in... Source: The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa CA
The planet Venus will pass between the earth and sun on Tuesday, a rare "transit" that will be easily visible from Northern California.
Sky-gazers using special solar viewing glasses will be able to see Venus as a black disk passing across the sun over a period of more than six hours.
"From an astronomical standpoint, it doesn't happen very often," said Ed Megill, director of the Santa Rosa Junior College Planetarium.
05/31/12 'Earthquake' opens at the Academy of Sciences Source: Perth News Carole Terwilliger Meyers visits Google to present her book "Weekend Adventures in San Francisco and Northern California".
05/31/12 Inaugural high school baseball showcase doubleheader... Source: Elk Grove Citizen - Elk Grove CA Northern California's inaugural Raley Field High School Baseball Showcase doubleheader presented by Jiffy Lube is set for June 3 beginning at 1 p.m., featuring 100 of the top prep baseball players in the area.
05/31/12 Pick-n-Pull Becomes Title Sponsor of NASCAR Pro Series... Source: UnumProvident Corp BUSINESS WIRE )--Infineon Raceway and Pick-n-Pull have entered into an agreement that will make the Rancho Cordova (Calif.)-based company the title sponsor of the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race in Sonoma.
05/31/12 GreenLife Eco Fest, Northern California's Premiere... Source: YubaNet.com - Nevada City CA Green Life Eco Fest (GLEF), Northern California's premiere homesteading and green living festival returns for its second year this June 23rd - 24th, 2012 at the historic North Star House in Grass Valley, CA.