Tire Amnesty Days for El Dorado County Residents
STATE LAW LIMITS THE TRANSPORTATION OF TIRES TO NINTEEN (19) PER VEHICLE, PER TRIP. TIRES FROM BUSINESSES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. ANYONE WITH MORE THAN A FEW LARGE TIRES WILL BE CONSIDERED A BUSINESS AND WILL BE TURNED AWAY. 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. El Dorado County Fairgrounds Ball Field, 100 Placerville Drive, Placerville. Free Disposal of Used Tires. www.co.el-dorado.ca.us/emd/events/tire.html For more information contact: El Dorado County Environmental Management Department (530) 621-5300
Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path reaching the coast Wednesday and headed for the Atlantic Ocean, where it could strengthen and curve back toward Florida ? possibly as a hurricane.
A powerful typhoon packing winds of 87 mph battered the northern Philippines with heavy rains Wednesday, closing schools and putting authorities on alert for flash floods and landslides.
The Rio Grande Valley's main highway was open to traffic again Tuesday as flooding receded following a deluge of up to 13 inches of rain across southern Texas.
Extra olives with your martini? Bartenders soon may think twice about that, with table olive prices expected to go up as California growers face their second-lightest harvest in more than a decade.
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