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Low gas prices for Friday
Santa Rosas average price for regular gasoline was $4.181 a gallon today, according to AAA. A year ago, it was $3.042. Among the areas typically low-price stations, these prices were reported this morning: --$3.999 at Arco at Hearn and Corby avenues...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
Art Under One Roof
Art shows open and close all the time, all over Sonoma County, but how often does a gallery mount a show designed to showcase to other galleries? Helen Gillespie, curator of The Gallery Show: An Exhibit About Exhibits, running through mid-September...
Date: 08/08/2008 | ENTERTAINMENT
2008 Games
From the beginning, weve been skeptical about China hosting the 2008 Olympics. But now that the games are upon us NBC will air the opening ceremonies by tape tonight we have to admit one thing: They couldnt have come at a better time. We need a...
Date: 08/08/2008 | OPINION
WASHINGTON Indians awarded $455 million
A federal judge ruled Thursday that American Indian plaintiffs are entitled to $455 million in a long-running trust case, a fraction of the $47 billion they wanted. But U.S. District Judge James Robertson did not say how the government should award...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
WASHINGTON Delay of subpoenas sought
White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers on Thursday asked a federal judge to delay an order to cooperate with Congress while they appeal the ruling. The court filings indicate Bolten and Miers will...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
U.S. sub leaked radiation 2 years
TOKYO -- An American nuclear-powered submarine leaked radiation for more than two years, releasing the bulk of the material in its home port of Guam and at Pearl Harbor, Japanese and U.S. officials said Thursday. On Aug. 1, the U.S. Navy notified...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
Somber ceremony marks 10th anniversary of African embassy blasts
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Douglas Sidialo woke up in a Nairobi hospital 10 years ago, devastated to find he had been blinded by flying glass after al-Qaida bombed the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. His thoughts immediately turned to revenge on...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
Rebels claim damage to Turkish oil line
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Kurdish separatist rebels claimed responsibility Thursday for sabotaging a critical Turkish pipeline, helping push global oil prices back above $120 per barrel. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which brings Azeri oil from the...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
PARIS Criticized over Dalai Lama
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's political opponents heaped criticism on him Thursday for avoiding a meeting with the Dalai Lama when the Tibetan spiritual leader comes to France this month. Sarkozy had been under pressure from human rights groups...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
Pakistan crisis looms as coalition agrees to impeach Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A move by Pakistan's fractious governing coalition on Thursday to impeach President Pervez Musharraf left the country on the brink of a political crisis that threatened to paralyze the government at a critical moment when the...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
Santa Rosas average price for regular gasoline was $4.181 a gallon today, according to AAA. A year ago, it was $3.042. Among the areas typically low-price stations, these prices were reported this morning: --$3.999 at Arco at Hearn and Corby avenues...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
Art Under One Roof
Art shows open and close all the time, all over Sonoma County, but how often does a gallery mount a show designed to showcase to other galleries? Helen Gillespie, curator of The Gallery Show: An Exhibit About Exhibits, running through mid-September...
Date: 08/08/2008 | ENTERTAINMENT
2008 Games
From the beginning, weve been skeptical about China hosting the 2008 Olympics. But now that the games are upon us NBC will air the opening ceremonies by tape tonight we have to admit one thing: They couldnt have come at a better time. We need a...
Date: 08/08/2008 | OPINION
WASHINGTON Indians awarded $455 million
A federal judge ruled Thursday that American Indian plaintiffs are entitled to $455 million in a long-running trust case, a fraction of the $47 billion they wanted. But U.S. District Judge James Robertson did not say how the government should award...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
WASHINGTON Delay of subpoenas sought
White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers on Thursday asked a federal judge to delay an order to cooperate with Congress while they appeal the ruling. The court filings indicate Bolten and Miers will...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
U.S. sub leaked radiation 2 years
TOKYO -- An American nuclear-powered submarine leaked radiation for more than two years, releasing the bulk of the material in its home port of Guam and at Pearl Harbor, Japanese and U.S. officials said Thursday. On Aug. 1, the U.S. Navy notified...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
Somber ceremony marks 10th anniversary of African embassy blasts
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Douglas Sidialo woke up in a Nairobi hospital 10 years ago, devastated to find he had been blinded by flying glass after al-Qaida bombed the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. His thoughts immediately turned to revenge on...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
Rebels claim damage to Turkish oil line
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Kurdish separatist rebels claimed responsibility Thursday for sabotaging a critical Turkish pipeline, helping push global oil prices back above $120 per barrel. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which brings Azeri oil from the...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
PARIS Criticized over Dalai Lama
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's political opponents heaped criticism on him Thursday for avoiding a meeting with the Dalai Lama when the Tibetan spiritual leader comes to France this month. Sarkozy had been under pressure from human rights groups...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS
Pakistan crisis looms as coalition agrees to impeach Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A move by Pakistan's fractious governing coalition on Thursday to impeach President Pervez Musharraf left the country on the brink of a political crisis that threatened to paralyze the government at a critical moment when the...
Date: 08/08/2008 | NEWS