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'Everybody around here lost something': How teens are coping after the Eaton fire
On a recent Saturday afternoon, at an art therapy event at Pasadena City Church, 11-year-old Eleanor Norman sat at a table ...
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On Nutrition: A little something sweet
We’ve just arrived for our yearly visit to the great state of Texas. After three days of travel, our horses and dogs are ...
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Sonora High students help make valentines for homebound residents
The Aronos Research Club joined forces with California Scholarship Federation students at Sonora High School on Jan. 30 to ...
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Sonora Elementary speech therapist accused of misdemeanor child abuse, battery
A 50-year-old speech therapist at Sonora Elementary School has been arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor child abuse and ...
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Tuolumne County Animal Control touts new spay-neuter facility for stray cats, dogs
Tuolumne County Animal Control has a new $65,000 spay and neuter surgery facility for stray cats and dogs, which will help ...
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Trump’s Education Department to investigate San Jose State over transgender volleyball player
The U.S. Department of Education will investigate San Jose State for Title IX violations over “the mistreatment of female ...
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‘What we’re doing works’: Boxing gym for people battling addiction opens
When Keith Werfelman heard about a boxing gym opening in his hometown of Mokena, Illinois, created to support those in addiction recovery through physical exercise, he knew he had to ...
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On Nutrition: Understanding vitamin C
One regret I have is not being able to meet Linus Pauling, the biochemist best known in nutrition circles for his views on vitamin C. In the last years of his life, he resided just down the road ...
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Contention windows closed? How the 49ers, Warriors, Stanford women and SF Giants have fallen and could climb back
A sports dynasty is in the eye of the beholder. It demands championships and a sustained period of excellence, although it’s up for debate as to how many years a dynasty requires or how many ...
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Membership-based family center planned at Mother Lode schoolhouse that dates to 1800s
New owners have purchased one of the Mother Lode’s oldest post-Gold Rush era schoolhouses, known in the past as Poverty Hill School and Stent Grammar School, where they plan to open a family ...
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As NASCAR returns to an NC track of yesteryear, there’s a ‘Cinderella story’ to tell
Thirty years ago, Tim Brown was a 20-something kid doing a little bit of everything for Cale Yarborough’s race team. He built motors. Installed car bodies. Hung suspensions. He was a short-track ...
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Why 'cough CPR' is not the lifesaver it's made out to be
Misinformation has circulated for years on social media about how coughing forcefully can treat a heart attack. Health experts are quick to debunk that myth and warn that "cough CPR" is ineffective.