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Lakeport businessman dies in boat crash

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Sebastopol considers sprucing up downtown streets

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Future hiring will mainly benefit highly skilled

Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.

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On the move

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Giants blank Dbacks, 2-0, stay game behind Padres

Nate Schierholtz hit a two-run triple off Aaron Heilman in the 11th inning and the Giants inched closer to the NL West lead with a 2-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday.

Rohnert Park man arrested after crashing into police SUV

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Woman pulled unconscious from Lake Sonoma

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Tourism rebounding, but not roaring back

Sonoma Countys visitor industry saw a modest summer rebound from last years dismal season, when families cut back sharply on vacation spending. "We dont ever want to go through what we did last year," a tourism official said.

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Agriculture briefs

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As beat Mariners, 6-2

Coco Crisp and Matt Carson each hit solo home runs to back Brett Anderson, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 6-2 Monday.

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Novato kids get bumped from overbooked schools

Like overbooked airline passengers, 30 to 40 kids in Novato are getting bumped from their overenrolled schools two weeks after the first day of class - transfers that parents say are more about money and union contracts than childrens needs. Third-grader...

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Oakland keeps Abbots Bromley Horn Dance alive

Holding antlers aloft in the midday sun, about 120 dancers and a larger semicircle of onlookers gathered in Oaklands Joaquin Miller Park on Monday for an odd hunting ritual that entered historical record in medieval England - and still finds followers today...

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Revelers keep Abbots Bromley Horn Dance alive

Oh, deer! Thats likely to be the reaction from hikers and picnickers in the Oakland hills Monday when they stumble across a herd of more than 100 humans trotting through the redwoods in deer antlers. No, the horned hordes have not become unhinged. They will...

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Economy blamed for drop in births

If its true that sex is one of the best forms of free entertainment in a recession, the folks taking it to heart must be using protection - the nations birthrate has dropped to what may be the lowest level ever. Many Bay Area hospitals reported fewer births...

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Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program

A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans hard economic times...

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US wont say if blowout preventer on way to shore

The Justice Department wont say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BPs undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore. Spokeswoman Hannah August declined comment Monday. The 50-foot, 300-ton device, which was...