Page last updated: August 15, 2008 @ 2:35 PM   |   Click here to go home.
Stock Market
BBC Headlines
 
Press Democrat Headlines
<font color=#990000>Update</font> Bigfoot hunter says he has proof

Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi displays an image of what he claims shows the mouth and teeth of a deceased Bigfoot. Skeptics want to see more.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lit bomb found under Clearlake trailer

Clearlake Police are trying to determine whether a paroled arsonist was responsible for a makeshift bomb found lit under a trailer early Friday.
A resident noticed the flaming explosive at the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park in Clearlake just after midnight Thursday, dousing the lit fuse and preventing it from exploding, police said.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sonoma County unemployment jumps to 13-year high

Local employers are continuing to add jobs, but not fast enough to keep pace with the rising number of unemployed. The jobless rate climbed to 6.1 percent in July, leaving 16,200 job seekers out of work.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Oil continues downward slide

VIENNA, Austria - Oil prices skidded further Friday, falling below $114 on signs that the worlds largest economies are weakening and on OPECs prediction that energy demand will decline.
The dollar, which is rising in response to concerns about the global economy, also sent oil lower.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

OPEN NOTES: Difficult Open for Lefty at home

SAN DIEGO - Phil Mickelson had dueling emotions as he finished the first U.S. Open played in his hometown.
Leftys self-proclaimed once-in-lifetime opportunity to hoist his first U.S. Open trophy had long since ended before he finally played his first sub-par round at Torrey Pines South Course, a 3-under 68 on Sunday.

Car hits Lake County man sitting in intersection

The CHP is investigating a late-night incident in which an 81-year-old Lake County man was partially run over and injured when a motorist came upon him sitting in the middle of a rural highway intersection.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Inflation in your grocery cart

Local shoppers try to stretch food dollars by bargain hunting, clipping coupons as consumer prices continue to rise.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Agilent adapting to solar future

Agilent Technologies is putting the finishing touches on a $50 million remake of its Santa Rosa campus to take advantage of sun, even as the company feels the impact of a slowing economy. Agilent became the latest to report falling profits.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

River Rock revenues drop in 2nd quarter

River Rock Casinos revenues declined in the second quarter, although its new liquor license helped to blunt the impact of a slowing economy, the Geyserville casino reported Thursday.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Will tennis upsets reverberate

BEIJING -- The world of tennis, as we know it, spun off its axis a bit here Thursday night in front of thousands of enthusiastic Chinese spectators.
This is the Beijing Olympics, not Wimbledon or another Grand Slam tournament. No ivy-covered walls here, no red clay or echoes of Jimmy Connors under the lights in the Big Apple.

SF Gate/Chronicle Headlines
Police arrest couple after pitbull attack

A couple who received a $210,000 settlement from the city of Richmond after police shot and killed their pit bull are in custody after two of their other pit bulls - abducted from a Sacramento County animal shelter after attacking a utility worker - were...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Wall Street ends mixed on credit concerns, oil

Wall Street closed mixed Friday after playing out a now familiar scenario: Upbeat sentiment about falling oil prices flagged amid onging concerns about weak credit markets and the economy. The major indexes also turned in a mixed performance after another...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Georgia leader signs truce, but will Russia leave?

Georgias president grudgingly signed a truce with Russia Friday, even as he denounced the Russians as invading barbarians and accused the West of all but encouraging them to overrun his country. A stone-faced Condoleezza Rice, standing alongside, said...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

An uneasy calm in a key Georgia city

Under a statue of Josef Stalin, the best-known product of this city, a Russian and a Georgian were discussing the war. The Georgian was wearing a T-shirt and track pants. The Russian was in uniform, holding an AK-47. The Georgian, Archil Tadianidze, lives in...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot

Two men claim theyve bagged Bigfoot, and they say they have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer. Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across the corpse in the woods of northern Georgia, across the country from the...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jerry Wexler, famed record producer, dies at 91

Legendary record producer Jerry Wexler, who helped shape R&B music with influential recordings of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and other greats, and later made key recordings with the likes of Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, has died, said his son, Paul. He was...