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McClintock votes against health care bill
Fearing high costs and rationing of care, Rep. Tom McClintock, (R-Elk Grove) voted against the U.S. House version of the health care reform bill Saturday, which is now endangered in the Senate over abortion. more...
11/09/2009 3:38pm
Police Blotter: Oct. 23, 2009
Nevada County

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  10/22/2009 10:28pm
Negotiators consider public option in Senate bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Senate Democrats at work with White House officials on health care legislation are strongly considering a requirement for the federal government to sell insurance in direct competition with private industry, officials said...
  10/22/2009 10:01pm
Poll: US belief in global warming is cooling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming.
  10/22/2009 9:59pm
On the ground
Boy alleged in balloon found safe at home
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A homemade balloon aircraft landed in a Colorado field but there was no sign of the 6-year-old boy believed to be inside.
  10/15/2009 3:12pm
Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Max Baucus
No quiet fadeaway for federal insurance option
WASHINGTON — Fears about high costs of the health care overhaul and mistrust of insurers are rekindling interest in letting the government sell health insurance as part of the plan.
  10/14/2009 7:15pm
Olympia Snowe, Orrin Hatch, Max Baucus
Senate committee approves health care plan
WASHINGTON — With support from a lone Republican, a key Senate committee Tuesday approved a middle-of-the-road health care plan that moves President Barack Obama's goal of wider and affordable coverage a giant step closer to becoming law.
  10/13/2009 1:48pm
Max Baucus
Insurers' warning shot has Democrats scrambling
WASHINGTON — Insurance companies aren't playing nice any more.
  10/12/2009 4:49pm
Barack Obama
Obama will end 'don't ask, don't tell'
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama pledged to end the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military in a speech Saturday, but acknowledged to a cheering crowd that the policy changes he promised on the campaign trail are not coming as quickly...
  10/10/2009 7:17pm
Nina Fekaris, Ian Bak
CDC: 76 children dead of swine flu as cases rise
ATLANTA — Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous for the young.
  10/09/2009 4:17pm
Barack Obama
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO — President Barack Obama on Friday won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
  10/09/2009 9:44am
Placer soldier killed in attack
FORT CARSON, Colo. — The Pentagon announcement Wednesday confirmed their worst fears — the eight American soldiers killed in a bloody weekend attack in Afghanistan were all from a single Fort Carson unit.
  10/08/2009 9:51pm
Barack Obama
Surrounded by doctors, Obama pitches overhaul
WASHINGTON — On the cusp of a key legislative push, President Barack Obama on Monday filled the Rose Garden with doctors supportive of his health care overhaul, saying "nobody has more credibility with the American people on this issue than you...
  10/05/2009 9:50am
Rio wins 2016 Olympics bid
COPENHAGEN — The 2016 Olympics are going to Rio de Janeiro, putting the games in South America for the first time.

Rio beat surprise finalist Madrid in the last round of voting.
  10/02/2009 10:10am
David Letterman
CBS employee charged with Letterman extortion plot
NEW YORK — A CBS News employee has been indicted in an extortion plot against David Letterman, who was forced to acknowledge sexual relationships with female staffers on his show after the man tried to blackmail him for $2 million, the Manhattan...
  10/02/2009 9:25am
Aid flows to tsunami-hit Samoas; death toll at 119
APIA, Samoa — Police searched a ghastly landscape of mud-strewn streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed survivors emerged from the muck and mire of an earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 119 in the South...
  09/30/2009 6:30pm
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