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Sarah Palin shared the stage with Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain yesterday in Dayton, Ohio. |
First-term Alaska governor tabbed as GOP running mate
McCain bucks convention with dark-horse VP pick
By Robert Barnes
and Michael D. Shear
THE WASHINGTON POST
DAYTON, Ohio – Sen. John McCain confounded conventional wisdom yesterday by announcing first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, a decision that guarantees that either an African-American or a woman will be on the winning ticket for the first time in history next year.
Agreement on bingo heads to governor
Charities would lose machines, boost prizes
By James P. Sweeney
U-T SACRAMENTO BUREAU
SACRAMENTO – State lawmakers yesterday agreed to revolutionize “grandma's bingo” with bigger games and prizes in exchange for an explicit ban on electronic bingo machines unless they are in Indian casinos. A 24-9 vote in the state Senate sent the legislation to the governor, who is expected to sign it.
Kidnappings are driving Baja citizens to county
Abduction threat is on increase, FBI says
By Hiram Soto
STAFF WRITER
He leaves for Tijuana early in the morning and comes back to his rented Eastlake home late at night, always taking a different route, even using different cars. He rarely ventures into the streets since criminals kidnapped and killed a close relative, and after surviving a kidnap attempt himself.
Two brothers, raised apart, are united
New law helped biological sibling of adoptee meet him for first time
By Liz Neely
STAFF WRITER
Gregg Fishel grew used to hearing the question from his mother as she lay in bed at a Spring Valley hospital, dying of liver cancer. “Did they find him yet?” she'd whisper in his ear each day, referring to another son, the one she gave up for adoption when she was 16.
