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LOCAL NEWS

Leads being pursued in clubhouse fire
There's not much left of the Kings Country Club clubhouse building that burned down July 7 in a suspected case of arson. The charred rubble was still there Saturday: Blackened filing cabinets, singed desks, wood charcoal. A chimney with a fireplace insert sticking out six feet above the ground stood at one end of what used to be the clubhouse, at least part of which came from the original Hanford High School.

‘Napoleon Dynamite’ co-star in Hanford to work on film he’s directing
Jon Gries, the man who played the beloved Uncle Rico character from the cult classic movie "Napoleon Dynamite," was in Hanford on Saturday working on a film he's directing. The film, called "Pickin' and Grinnin'," is a comic take-off on reality music competitions like "Nashville Star" and "American Idol," according to Ben Skerker, executive producer.

Dream of gas tax holiday faltered over job losses
WASHINGTON -- The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere. Despite calls from the presidential campaign trail for a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day tax freeze, lawmakers quickly concluded -- with a prod from the construction industry -- that having $9 billion less to spend on highways could create a pre-election specter of thousands of lost jobs.


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Oakland police officer shoots chase suspect
OAKLAND, Calif. - An Oakland police officer has shot a suspect after a chase from Oakland to San Leandro.

Rats no longer running wild at Angel Stadium
ANAHEIM, Calif. - The rats at Angel Stadium seem to be under control.

Winning numbers in California's 'SuperLotto Plus' game
SACRAMENTO - No ticket matched all six numbers drawn for the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game Saturday night, which had a jackpot of $34 million.

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Tropical Storm Cristobal rumbles off the Carolinas
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Tropical Storm Cristobal, the first tropical storm to menace the Southeast seaboard this hurricane season, continued to move along the North Carolina coast early Sunday, and was expected to dump several inches in some areas of the drought-stricken state.

Dream of gas tax holiday falters over job losses
WASHINGTON - The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere.

Lawsuit exposes growing rift among King children
ATLANTA - For years, they were the picture of solidarity: the four children of Martin Luther King Jr. carrying on the legacy of the civil rights icon.

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Obama has breakfast with troops; meets Karzai
KABUL, Afghanistan - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama shared Sunday breakfast with American troops in Kabul ahead of an expected meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai, a man Obama has criticized for not doing enough to rebuild his war-torn country.

Pope urges Australian youths to spurn materialism
SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday a "spiritual desert" was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind.

Olympic traffic crackdown begins in Beijing
BEIJING - Beijing started its most drastic pollution-control plan Sunday, restricting car use and limiting factory emissions in a last-minute push to clear smog-choked skies for the August Olympics.

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Conjoined barn swallows cause stir in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's an Arkansas bird story that at first might be hard to swallow. A pair of conjoined barn swallows, attached at the hip by skin and possibly muscle tissue, will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution for study and examination, Arkansas wildlife officials said Friday. If confirmed, officials say it could prove to be an incredibly rare find _ a set of conjoined twins among birds.

Blessed are the boxers, altered for wounded troops
CASCO TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Blessed are the boxer shorts.

Putrid whale carcass parts stink up Oahu street
HONOLULU - Getting the rotting corpse of a dead sperm whale off Oahu's North Shore was only the start of the problem.

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Signposts by Seth Nidever

Movies and Myths

Movie making is a tedious business. This is one conclusion I came to today while sitting, sleep deprived, at the Hanford Fox Theatre, watching a film called “Pickin’ and Grinnin’” in the process of being made. It was like watching the progress of drying paint. Mostly a lot of people standing around doing nothing. The ratio of [...]

The Pulse by Jackie Kaczmarek

Dallas Cowboys, here I come

One of our loyal online readers sent me an e-mail earlier today, asking if The Pulse still had a pulse. I answered yes, but that I’d been so busy lately that I hadn’t even been able to blog about my ongoing love affair with my Mr. Coffee iced tea maker. The real reason is a lot [...]

Panic Button by Joe Johnson

Geek Review: The Lies of Locke Lamora

I was going to review “Hellboy II” this week, but it really comes down to this: If you liked the first movie, then the sequel is even better and go see it. If the original bored you, then bugger off, because you have no taste. There, that said, I’m going to review a book. Yes, [...]

Signposts by Seth Nidever

Room for belief

I seem to have stirred up a hornet’s nest with the last posting, so I thought it might be good to try to clarify things a bit. I am concerned about people thinking that there is no room for belief in God. The reason is that some popularizers of science like Richard Dawkins are on the warpath [...]

Alien Asylum by Eiji Yamashita

Stray thoughts on racism

A recent Washington-post ABC news poll indicated that three in 10 Americans admit to race bias. This statistic — probably one of many conducted recently in light of Barack Obama’s presidential run — didn’t really surprise me. But it didn’t please me, either. In fact, when I first read that article, I actually lost a few [...]

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