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Patti Davis, actress and youngest daughter of the late President Reagan, gave Prince Harry some sage yet unsolicited advice ahead of the release of his memoir, "Spare." In an op-ed written for the New York Times, Davis, 70, cautioned the Duke of Sussex to be judicious with his candor. "My justification in writing a book I now wish I hadn’t written… was very similar to what I understand to be Harry’s reasoning. I wanted to tell the truth, I wanted to set the record straight. Naïvely, I thought if I put my own feelings and my own truth out there...

UC Berkeley chief legal counsel dead in hit-and-run near Guerneville By Rick Hurd | rhurd@bayareanewsgroup.com and Emily DeRuy | ederuy@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group August 29, 2017 at 3:47 am Westbound Highway 116 at Summer Crossing, west of Guerneville. SONOMA COUNTY — A member of UC Berkeley’s legal team died Sunday after being hit by a car in a hit-and-run crash near Guerneville, authorities said. The Sonoma County Coroner’s Office confirmed Monday that 59-year-old Christopher Patti, the campus’ chief legal counsel, died Sunday morning. He was stopped on his bike on the right shoulder of westbound Highway 116 around...

Former President Ronald Reagan's liberal activist daughter Patti Davis is asking just what many other people across the United States want to know — why she's losing her insurance. "Could the president please explain why I and others are losing our health ins. plans? Wasn't supposed to happen!" Davis posted on Twitter Friday afternoon.

April 25, 2012 Sanford commission rejects police chief's resignation Commissioner Patti Mahany on her decision, Zimmerman case

Through its latest witness, prosecutors are following the money trail from Tony Rezko to pay for contractors who worked on a major Blagojevich home renovation. Prosecution witness Robert Williams, Rezmar Chief Financial Office, read off the list of contractors who did work on the Blagojevich family's Ravenswood Manor home.

Patti Blagojevich Heads to JungleFormer Gov. Rod Blagojevich's wife is off to the Costa Rican jungle for a TV reality show. Patti Blagojevich is appearing on NBC's "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here." She's competing because a federal judge barred her husband from going while he faces federal corruption charges. Blagojevich family spokesman Glenn Selig said Wednesday that the show will be challenging for the "big city girl." The show premieres June 1. Others set to appear include actor Stephen Baldwin and "American Idol" contestant Sanjaya Malakar.

A controversial fundraiser and adviser to Gov. Rod Blagojevich has had a business relationship with First Lady Patti Blagojevich for eight years, the governor's office acknowledged Thursday. Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a Chicago developer who has been influential in shaping Blagojevich's administration and policies, has "worked on various projects" with Patti Blagojevich since 1997, said Cheryle Jackson, the governor's spokeswoman. The disclosure marks the first time that the governor's administration has acknowledged the governor's family has a personal financial link with a key adviser who helped shape the administration and is now tied to a variety of controversies involving allegations of...

Dirty Footprints - We must write letters of outrage to the senators who voted to drill in ANWR, says our columnist. But maybe all there is left to do is weep. President Bush must be feeling so victorious. The Senate has now said yes to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—the pristine place President Eisenhower took measures to protect in 1960. advertisement Environmental groups have said the fight isn’t over, and I want to believe there is still something we can do—write letters, e-mails, rise up en masse and say no. But I don’t know if anything will help...

Since every White House has its leaks, moles, spies and secret e-mailers, it was inevitable that an earlier draft—and accompanying commentary—would end up in the wrong hands. Fortunately those hands were mine, and it is my patriotic duty to make this draft public. We are still at this moment a free society, and I think I’m still protected by the First Amendment (though I’m not completely sure about that.) “My fellow Americans, I stand before you now as the proud winner of another four years. I have a mandate. In plain English, I can do whatever I darn well please.”...