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August 24, 2010
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 | Call Me the Newcomer (Newcomer)
08/30/2010
Join me in Historic Downtown Oroville on the First Friday in September? The word is there will be music in the streets, numerous parties on each and every block, end-of-summer discount sales and bargains galore. That’s Friday, September 3rd, after 4 o’
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 | “The Seven Year Itch” Opens September 10, 2010 (Local News)
08/30/2010
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
By George Axelrod
Award-Winning Comedy
Opening: Friday, September 10, 2010, 7:30
Where: Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird Street, Oroville, CA 95965
For seating availability call: (530) 533-BIRD
Available Tickets: $10.00 theatre lob
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 | 4TROOPS at PPAC, September 10, 2010 (Local News)
08/30/2010
See and hear 4TROOPS live from the Intrepid. 4TROOPS, a vocal group of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, perform aboard the USS Intrepid. The set includes “For Freedom,” “Bless the Broken Road,” “Angel,” “I’m Already There,” “You Raise Me Up,” “Galveston
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 | Closing Day at Forbestown Museum, September 4, 2010 (Local News)
08/30/2010
Summer is passing and closing day for the Yuba Feather Museum, located at 19096 new york flat road in the little Foothill town of forbestown, is fast approaching. Saturday, september 4th plan to attend the peddlers’ fair and the final living history day
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 | Lambert Featured Artist for September (Local News)
08/30/2010
Lauralyn Lambert is September’s featured artist at Artists of River Town Gallery & Gifts, 1435 Myers St. Lambert’s encaustic and acrylic paintings headline the show. Works by 14 other local artists will stress salmon and salmon habitat in keeping with Or
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 | Treasures in a Building & in a Bazaar�Egypt, Part 11 (Travel Column)
08/25/2010
The Egyptian Museum was founded by a Frenchman, Auguste Mariette, and first opened in 1863. It outgrew two buildings before settling in this one in 1902. More than 120,000 items of pharaonic antiquities are on display here with another 150,000 items rep
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 | ANTIQUE TOOL TALK # 50 (Bolt Column)
08/23/2010
Well, folks, today�s story is going to be a bit different and must confess right up front, we do not have a tool in the museum that we picked up on the trip.
Not that we didn�t try, so bear with me and read on. Will try to explain.
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 | A Few Egyptian Firsts� Egypt, Part 12 (Travel Column)
08/23/2010
This was to be our last day in Egypt, and our guide said he�d saved the best for last. We were off to visit the site of the oldest capital of ancient Egypt and then to its important necropolis nearby, considered one of the richest archaeological s
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 | “Slap that Canvas!” (Local News)
08/23/2010
A Creative Painting Collaboration
The Butte College Art Gallery has put a twist on the traditional exhibition experience. Slap That Canvas! --the first art show of the 2010-2011 academic year-- is an invitation to co-create paintings and drawings, alo
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 | Chico Performances Seeks Volunteers in Exchange for Free Tickets (Local News)
08/23/2010
Chico Performances is looking for volunteers to deliver posters to set places & routes.
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| CNN.com |
Earl downgraded as wind, rain hit northeastern U.S.
Earl was downgraded to a tropical storm as it spread wind and rain over Long Island and part of New England. Earl still had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.  |
Mistrial in alleged 'sham marriage' case
The sham marriage trial of actress Fernanda Romero, which the judge has likened to a soap opera, appeared threatened with a mistrial Friday after a dramatic turn a day earlier.  |
Feds bust huge human-trafficking ring
Six job recruiters have been indicted in federal court in what the FBI has called the largest human-trafficking operation ever to result in charges in the United States.  |
UPS plane crashes near Dubai, kills 2
A cargo plane has crashed in an uninhabited area near the Dubai airport, according to the official WAM news agency in the United Arab Emirates.  |
Florida love triangle killer sentenced
A Florida judge sentenced Rachel Wade, the 20-year-old woman convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing her romantic rival in a fight last year, to 27 years in prison Friday.  |
Opinion: Push jobs bill, progressives
Now that we are a week removed from the march on Washington organized by the self-proclaimed rodeo clown, Glenn Beck, it's clear that the event was nothing more than an exercise in ego worship.  |
Mexicans: U.S. cartoonist went too far
An American's cartoon showing the eagle in the Mexican flag dead in a pool of blood is drawing criticism.  |
Acid victim: Shades, God saved eyes
Bethany Storro doesn't usually wear sunglasses, but she got a surprise paycheck and bought a pair earlier this week. Those sunglasses, she is convinced, saved her eyesight when a woman threw a cup of acid in her face 20 minutes later.  |
Girl, 4, weighed 15 pounds at death
The mother of a 4-year-old girl, found dead in her Brooklyn home Thursday morning, was charged Friday with second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child, according to police.  |
Religious leaders hit back at Hawking
After physicist Stephen Hawking's claim that God didn't create the universe, the head of the Church of England says that "physics on its own will not settle the question of why there is something rather than nothing."  |
