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Ken Kesey, the famous '60s Merry Prankster, told his fellow hippies, "You're either on the bus or you're off the bus."
That slogan may come back to haunt students, parents and educators here facing some of the deepest budget cuts in history.ATWATER -- The pounding of nails and the staccato of jackhammers are welcome noises at the Atwater Plaza Shopping Center.
Will downtown's vacant County Bank building become the new home to Merced County government workers?
Jose Zavala killed his ex-girlfriend, shooting her to death in her Loughborough-area apartment -- but was he insane when he pulled the trigger?
The big game just took on added importance with the second release of the Sac-Joaquin Section's power ratings.
Soon the paperwork, the planning, the staging and the coordinating will be over.
Imagine if you will, the Western world is reeling with economic distress.
WASHINGTON -- Memorial services for the late Ethie Weaver Radanovich have been set for Northern Virginia on Wednesday and the Sierra Nevada foothills on Sunday.
BEVERLY HILLS -- If history repeats itself, Julia Roberts and director Garry Marshall know what they'll be doing 10 years from now: making a movie together.
State officials say there's nothing unusual about the rate of birth defects in a central California town near the West's largest toxic waste dump.
California taxpayers are on the hook for more state government retiree health benefits than previously thought.
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