Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
TODAY Viking for a day What: Who doesn't want to don a horned "helm"? It hardly matters that historical evidence doesn't back the notion that Vikings wore horned helmets. Seems they actually wore basic, no-frills headgear in battle – although some were adorned with carved bird figures arcing toward each other, kind of horn-like. Nonetheless, we're sure there will be many of the mythical...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A parole agent who oversaw the man accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard has been transferred for the safety of him and his family. California corrections department spokesman Gordon Hinkle says the agent and his family were moved to a new location after he was publicly identified. His children had to be taken out of school because of threats, Hinkle said Wednesday. The Associated Press has...
Time Has Told Me (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Coyote's Dream (1976) Not a very well known entity in the Takoma catalog, this LP is a solo outing by a singer, songwriter, and picker who had previously been involved with a psychedelic country combo based originally out of Antioch, Mad River . The Ohio group predictably flowed its way onto the San Francisco scene during an era when hippies and, more importantly, hippie musicians embraced country...
Dont Let Them Hurt Our Children (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The rapist accused of imprisoning Jaycee Dugard for 18 years slipped through the net and should have been caught earlier, according to the official report into the case. The damning report, released by California's inspector general, acknowledged that Phillip Garrido had been under little supervision. Officials failed to spot anything was wrong despite making 60 visits to the Garrido household, as...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Jaycee Lee Dugard When Jaycee Lee Dugard resurfaced in August, she denied being the 11-year-old girl kidnapped in 1991 and defended Phillip Garrido as a "great person." She became defensive as officers questioned her, then asked for a lawyer. She tried to convince police she was fleeing an abusive husband in Minnesota. And then the young woman who had tried to pass herself off as "Alyssa"...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Inspector General David Shaw points to a chart of Phillip Garrido's movements tracked by a GPS device. Tracking was spotty, Shaw said. If only they'd read his file. Phillip Garrido reported to California parole authorities on June 8, 1999, fresh from being released by federal parole authorities. He was a convicted rapist and kidnapper on lifetime parole out of Nevada, and had been charged but never...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Nancy Garrido sits with her lawyer, Gilbert Maines, at left, while Phillip Garrido is next to his lawyer, Susan Gellman, during a hearing in an El Dorado County courtroom in Placerville on Thursday. The Garridos are charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard, then 11, in 1991 and hiding her in their Antioch-area backyard for 18 years. Phillip Garrido is being held in lieu of $30 million bail. The Garridos...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Nancy Garrido sits with her lawyer, Gilbert Maines, at left, while Phillip Garrido is next to his lawyer, Susan Gellman, during a hearing in an El Dorado County courtroom in Placerville on Thursday. The Garridos are charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard, then 11, in 1991 and hiding her in their Antioch-area backyard for 18 years. Phillip Garrido is being held in lieu of $30 million bail. The Garridos...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
One of the more obscure – and probably more important – of California's many political conflicts pits an organization called EdVoice against the California Teachers Association and other school unions. It centers on our ever-deepening education crisis, manifested in low test scores and high dropout rates, especially among black and Latino kids. EdVoice, maintained by some wealthy Californians...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A family of four reported missing from the Georgetown area has been located in Antioch. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office said one family member, Sarah Jean Smith, 28, telephoned officers about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday after a friend saw on television that the family had been reported missing and at risk. Smith said they were not missing and were staying with friends in Antioch, the sheriff's officials...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
It's fun being a designer. We designers use our hands, heads, and hearts. We get to invent things and then make them into real things--things that we want. We use our heads for strategy, tactics, science, and thinking ahead. We actually make things with our hands: drawings, models, and samples. And we use our own emotions to connect with the hearts so that people will want what we created. The combination...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
OCCUPY THE CRISIS!: the emerging student-worker direct action movement in california (a summary commissioned by the antioch rebel newspaper from a participant in the ucsc actions) On Sept. 24, thousands of students, faculty, and staff walked out of University of California campuses across the state. The walk-outs and one-day strike were called by a wide coalition of UC unions and activist groups as...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Talk about a tough kid: A California toddler is alive after falling 30 feet from an apartment window and landing on concrete and rocks. Contra Costa County Fire Capt. Charles Thomas said the 22-month-old boy was alert and crying after the three-story plunge Sunday in Antioch that left him with just a cut on his abdomen, a bruised lung and a bump on his head.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Talk about a tough kid: A California toddler is alive after falling 30 feet from an apartment window and landing on concrete and rocks. Contra Costa County Fire Capt. Charles Thomas said the 22-month-old boy was alert and crying after the three-story plunge Sunday in Antioch that left him with just a cut on his abdomen, a bruised lung and ...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Talk about a tough kid: A California toddler is alive after falling 30 feet from an apartment window and landing on concrete and rocks. Contra Costa County Fire Capt. Charles Thomas says the 22-month-old boy was alert and crying af...
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