Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Snowshoe Thompson initial mail run from Placerville to Genoa, NV
Also, the 7th anniversary of the Snowshoe Thompson Cross Country and 5th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Snowshoe Thompson Monument in Genoa, NV. Cross country ski/snowshoe tour. Celebration at Genoa Town Hall 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. - Smorgasbord andEntertainment. Registration at 9:00 a.m.; 10:00 a.m. 5K Ski Tour or 2 1/2K Snowshoe Hope Valley Outdoor Center Ski/Snowshoe Donation of $10.00; Celebration event Donation $15.00 For more information contact: For information (530) 694-2266
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AP - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
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AP - A 16-year-old in a stolen vehicle smashed into a police car during a chase, killing one of two officers in the cruiser, authorities said Saturday.
AP - An explosion destroyed a house early Saturday and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home were found in the wreckage, authorities said. Seven other homes were destroyed.
AP - Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages.
AP - It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate, a conscious part of our days, and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history.