From Friday, May 27 2005 - 10:00pm To Thursday, June 30 2005 - 10:00pm Every day
This event will feature artistically
decorated wheelbarrows displayed in front of Historic Main Street
merchant locations and some outlying city of Placerville locations. To
commemorate the historical significance of John M. Studebaker's
wheelbarrowbusiness in Placerville during the gold rush period. At the
end of the show, the wheelbarrows will be donated to local charities
for fundraising purposes for their organizations. Every Day you can
see these outside art displays. These wheelbarrows will be decorated by
local artists and organizations and a walking tour map of these unique
"canvases" will be available at several Main Street from Late April to
August. www.placerville-downtown.org For more information contact: Placerville Downtown Association (530) 672-3436
A popular attraction sat idle this year at the American River Salmon Festival in Rancho Cordova over concern about a meager fall run for the embattled fish.
Firefighters aided by water-dumping aircraft slowed a wildfire Sunday that destroyed two homes and forced the evacuation of about 1,200 people outside Los Angeles.
A Sacramento man was arrested and faces murder charges in connection with the killing of a homeless man whose body was found behind a dumpster early Thursday morning.
Organizers working to rebuild a popular Vacaville playground put out the call for more volunteers after missing their initial deadline to reopen the play area Sunday.
AP - Fire officials prepared late Sunday for rapid growth of a wildfire blazing 20 miles north of downtown with the expected arrival of strong, dry wind gusts overnight.
AP - A month later, piles of Sheetrock, appliances, furniture and family mementos dot most streets in this island town. Electronic road signs in southeast Texas flash, "Watch for cows next 20 miles," a reminder that few fences remain to hem in livestock. Blue tarps cover 11,000 roofs for 100 miles from Houston to the Louisiana line.
AP - NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive "dictionary of the American language."
AP - She shot herself in the chest Oct. 1 before she could be taken away from the foreclosed house, which was worth less than its mortgage from the day she took out the loan.
AP - In the Tenderloin, corner stores sell more alcohol than food, drug-addled pan handlers shake paper cups at passers-by and churches vie for real estate with strip clubs.
AP - Chicago's police superintendent is denying a news report that officers in his command are working the streets less aggressively out of fear of being second-guessed by him.
AP - About 2,500 people who fled when a corrosive liquid overflowed from a tank at a chemical plant and evaporated were allowed to return home Sunday after authorities determined that no toxins remained in the air.
AP - Trillions in stock market value — gone. Trillions in retirement savings — gone. A huge chunk of the money you paid for your house, the money you're saving for college, the money your boss needs to make payroll — gone, gone, gone.
AP - National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.