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Stockton could become biggest city to go bankrupt
to undergo mediation or hold a public hearing and declare a fiscal emergency before filing for bankruptcy.In 2008, Vallejo became the biggest California city to file for bankruptcy, and it emerged from bankruptcy last year.In recent years, thousands of new Read more »
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A TEAM player
Ross, the owner of TEAM Chevrolet Cadillac in Vallejo, has been sponsoring Napa events and organizations, such as the Boys and Girls Club, Symphony on the River, Napa Valley Futbol and many others since he moved here in 1994. Three years ago, TEAM began sponsoring 56 m ago from Napa Valley Register Read more »
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West County schools, free from state control after 20 years
Vallejo schools, which each still owe tens of millions of dollars to the state. RICHMOND -- Friday marked the end of a two-decade struggle for the public school system in West Contra Costa County. Two decades after a fiscal meltdown nearly forced its schools 6/1/12 from Inside Bay Area Read more »
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Altered photo of slain Vallejo officer Jim Capoot gets offended state employee fired
said he was placed on leave in April and later informed his last day of employment would be Thursday. A friend of slain Vallejo police officer Jim Capoot has been fired from his state job after forwarding a disparaging email he got from a co-worker with an from Contra Costa Times Read more »
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The Man Who Made California Safe for Mountain Lions
Gross) Forty-two years ago, California’s mountain lion got a break from an unlikely ally. Lowell Dunn, the president of Vallejo’s Rod and Gun Club, wrote Assemblyman John Dunlap that he thought the time had come to stop shooting mountain lions. The hunter’s from KQED Read more »
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Vallejo man convicted of second-degree murder in 2011 killing
a jury determined Tuesday. Tion Alonzo Grimmett Hill, Sr., 29, was convicted of second-degree murder in the slaying of 27-year-old Cacee Danielle Savella in North Vallejo. Savella was found dead in the passenger seat of a white Ford Tempo on Dublin Drive during from Inside Bay Area Read more »
