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A local baseball Hall of Famer who won numerous honors - including Rookie of the Year and National League Most Valuable Player - during his 17-year major league career was arrested Tuesday in Cordelia on drug and other charges. Orlando Cepeda, 69, of Suisun City, was booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana while driving and exceeding the speed limit. Bail was set at $10,000.

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Davis' spending spree By Beth Barrett Staff Writer Under Gov. Gray Davis, California went on its biggest spending spree in at least 50 years, driving up the cost of the government by 22 percent and the cost to each resident by 20 percent, budget documents and interviews show. On the way to racking up a $38 billion shortfall last year, the state increased its total employee salary costs by 22 percent -- from $14.3 billion to $17.5 billion, including a 16 percent expansion in the number of employees. Today, the more than 325,000 employees of the state of California are...

True believers remainEven after hoax, crowds flock to circles... The names of the teenagers in this story have been withheld to protect their identities - Editor. By Catherine Moy/Reporter Correspondent One day after four Fairfield teenagers went public with claims that they made crop circles in a Suisun Valley wheat field, they faced a media onslaught while UFO experts spent the day trying to poke holes in their story. Rick Roach/The ReporterSporting "alien-proof" foil hats, Vacaville residents Jaclyn Martinez (left), 11, Jessica Martinez (center), 13, and Veronica Pennock, 14, inspect crop circles at Rockville and Suisun Valley roads on Friday....

<p>A computer hacker admitted Thursday in federal court in Sacramento that he defaced a U.S. Air Force Web site with what prosecutors called "anti-Semitic" remarks.</p> <p>Pakistan-born Adil Yahya Zakaria Shakour of Los Angeles said he made the unauthorized computer intrusions into the Web site of Eglin Air Force Base in Florida in April and May.</p>

<p>Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent Maria Burks is photographed behind a model of Guglielmo Marconi's successful radio towers and transmission station at the National Seashore Headquarters in Wellfleet, Mass. This year marks 100 years since Marconi's first radio transmissions from South Wellfleet across the Atlantic.</p>

Bamiyan, Afghanistan (AP) - Said Askar, his wife and four children make their home in a smoky one-room cave carved from a sheer rock face where Afghanistan's famed Buddha statues once stood. The home is bare of furniture, has a dirt floor and uses one plastic sheet for a window, but is still a major improvement for the family, which fled into the mountains during the Taliban regime. Now, with the Taliban gone, some 50 families - the poorest of Bamiyan's poor - scrape by in the caves and hope for better days. "Life here in the caves is very...

Here's a short report on the Rally at the California State Capital Building in Sacramento. The Ralley was off and running well before the 1pm scheduled start. According to TV, print, and radio crew estimates as many as 5,000 Patriots assembled on and around the North steps of the Capitol. The event was covered live by radio station KFBK 1530 by host Mark Williams. The attendee's were well equipped with signs and there were a great many families and lots of children. The entire time of the rally a large caravan of vehicles circled the immeadiate block of the Capitol ...