Nick Marolf passed early leader Andy Eckrich on lap 19, then lead the remaining 16-laps to capture the 35-lap Precision Transmission Open Late Model season championship feature last Saturday night.

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Less, Greiner, Kelly, Herring and Marolf all track Champions

Even recycling efforts have a downside. In cities locked into long-term contracts with waste companies that rely on refuse to survive, residents and businesses are finding that less waste can lead to higher rates.

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Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills find that less waste leads to higher rates

The healing process has begun for the Berkeley High School football team, which lost teammate D.J.

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Grieving Stags team heals after tragedy

DEL MAR, Calif. – Joel Rosario won five races at Del Mar on Saturday, including two stakes, and came back to win another stakes race on Sunday, in the process wresting the lead in the jockeys’s standings from Rafael Bejarano, 43 wins to 41, going into the final seven days of this meet.

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DRF: Jockey Rosario proves to be quick thinker

Minnie plants a wet one on 11-month-old Bentley Damron during Saturday’s Less Adoptable Pet Month event at the Nancy J.

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Finding homes for less-adoptable pets

ALTON With less than two weeks before classes start, crews had gone through a punch list, were arranging kitchen equipment and waxing floors Friday and Saturday at Lovejoy Elementary School.

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Crews finishing school renovations

GENEVA (AFP) Police in Switzerland were less than impressed on Saturday when motorists helped themselves to melons that fell out the back of a Spanish truck and prompted a traffic jam. Drivers immediately behind the lorry reacted well when the rear doors or the lorry swung open for unknown reasons, sending a large number of loaded melon cartons onto the highway, local police in Basel city …

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Swiss motorists help themselves to runway melons

South Carolina is combating illegal immigration with a less aggressive law than other states, with the second phase starting this week of a program that politicians and business owners say is working.

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Illegal worker law sees results in South Carolina

PHILLIPS More time was spent at Saturday’s unusual town meeting to elect two selectmen than to approve a municipal budget of $934,997.

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Cosenza, Morgan elected as Phillips selectmen after nearly 2-hour process

It took less than a year to convict Ronnie Lee Gardner of capital murder and sentence him to die for shooting a man to death as part of a frenzied attempt to flee justice.

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After 25 years, Gardner murder case nears an end