Jaycee Lee Dugard Abduction: Phillip & Nancy Garrido Arrested

Jaycee Lee Dugard has turned up at an Antioch, California police station after having disappeared on June 10, 1991, and was brought to nearby Concord. (Jaycee Lee Dugard pictures, via updated FBI file) Jaycee Lee...

2nd Probable Case Of H1N1 Detected In New Hampshire

CONCORD, N.H. -- Gov. John Lynch and the Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that another possible case of the H1N1 virus has been detected in a worker at Concord Hospital.The news comes hours...

Contra Costa deputy DA arrested on suspicion of rape

Most people trust the ones in authority to do the right thing. It looks like the deputy DA for Contra Costa County was not someone to be trusted. Michael Gressett, 51, of Martinez was being investigated and recently arrested for a  few charges including rape and sodomy. ...

Carlos Santana sees next career as minister

Carlos Santana  Alves (born July 20 1947in Autlan de Novarra, Mexico ) is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican rock musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his...

4.0 earthquake centered near Alamo

"A magnitude 4.0 earthquake that shook the East Bay on Friday evening jangled a few nerves but caused little damage.The quake, which was felt as a sharp rumble that lasted about seven seconds, struck at 9 p.m. The U.S. Geological Survey reported its epicenter at two miles...

Barack O’Bummer – The Pied Piper Of Contempt :: Carter's Second Term

" Barack Obama is still on the market for a running mate today after veep speculators talked up a surprise announcement in Indiana today. The rumors were rampant because Obama was introduced by Evan Bayh, who is...

2000 Guitarists Break World Record Playing 'This Land is Your Land'

A whopping 2052 guitar players sang and performed “This Land is Your Land” potentially making their way in to the Guiness Book of World Records.  It usually takes a about a month for Guiness to make it...

107-Year-Old Man Leads High School Alumni Parade

He's 107 years old, and leading the Phillips Academy parade in his golf cart. Let's hear it for C. Yardley Chittick, who was a schoolboy with Humphrey Bogart."C. Yardley Chittick sneaked off school grounds with...

Two people shot at North Carolina soda bottling plant

UPDATE: 5:53PM ESTThe two men that were shot have been identified. The gunman is still at large." Police in Concord have identified the two people fatally shot at a soda bottling plant about 25 miles north of...

Boston Tea Party Hit Corporate Monopoly

"The Boston Tea Party was a direct action against a corporate monopoly that led to the birth of the United States. The raiders of the Tea Party pledged silence for 50 years. One of them, George R. T. Hewes, lived...

New Hampshire: Warm Weather may draw Record number of Voters

"Warm weather may draw record number of voters By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI The Associated Press 7 hours, 44 minutes ago CONCORD – A few days ago, temperatures fought to get above zero as candidates fought for votes...

New Hampshire breaks snow record from 1876

From where I sit on the west coast the only snow I can see caps the mountain tops across inlet. But for those on the east coast, it's a different story. "oday's snowstorm made this month the snowiest December in...

Clinton: Terrorist attack would help GOP

It seems even the conservative democrats are now willing to opine on the strange timing of major incidents under the Bush regime.  - The Angryindian------------------------"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- She says she is...

A Peronal Independence Day

"It was on this day in 1845 that Henry David Thoreau moved into his cabin on Walden Pond, just outside Concord, Massachusetts. He was not quite 28 years old at the time, and he had decided to try an experiment...

N.H. Finds Definition Of Educational Adequacy

"New Hampshire will meet a court-ordered July 1 deadline for defining an adequate education. Yesterday, House and Senate lawmakers approved a compromise definition, which will bring kindergarten to all school districts. After the votes, Gov. John Lynch said that he would sign...

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