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5/21/2013
Santa Rosa police are looking for three masked gunmen who busted through the doors of a local bank and ordered everyone to get down on the floor. The robbery happened just after 10 am Monday at the Redwood Credit Union on Fourth Street. Investigators say none of the two dozen employees and customers in the bank at the time were hurt. The robbers fled in a van which had reportedly been stolen in Vallejo earlier in the day. Police are investigating possible gang connections in the case.
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5/21/2013
It could have been a lot worse. A six year-old Rohnert Park boy suffered only minor injuries Monday despite being run over by a 10-wheel garbage truck. Police say the boy was hit while riding his bike in a crosswalk on the busy Rohnert Park Expressway at the time. He was wearing a helmet and that helmet was split in two by the force. Authorities say their preliminary investigation indicates the boy and hit mother should not have been in the crosswalk at the time but they have not concluded their review of the accident.
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5/21/2013
Petaluma city leaders are not hinting at whether they plan to participate in the county's public power agency. Monday the city became the fifth local government to hear a pitch from the planned Sonoma Sonoma Clean Power Authority. The public agency would provide an alternative to Pacific Gas and Electric for those citiies that sign on. At this point, only Windsor has agreed to support the public power effort.
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5/20/2013
24 year-old Tejay van Gardenen of Colorado won the Amgen Tour of California bicycle race Sunday, crossing the finish line in downtown Santa Rosa with the best time in the eight-day, 728-mile competition. Van Gardenen came in ahead of scores of other riders from throughout the world. Peter Sagan of Slovakia won the final stage -from San Francisco to Santa Rosa - but van Gardenen was the overall winner. The race started a week earlier in San Diego and the riders made their way north to Sonoma County. Downtown Santa Rosa was packed with thousands of cycling fans under sunny skies.
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5/20/2013
California's finances appear to be doing a bit better than Governor Brown projected in his budget update last week. The Legislative Analyst's Office says revenues are more than $3-billion higher that the numbers Brown used in his latest spending proposal for the coming fiscal year. Governor Brown offered the "May Revise", with a budget total at about $96-billion. Brown has cautioned his fellow Democrats not to push for new spending, saying the state needs to pay down longterm debt and should maintain fiscal restraint as the state's economy slowly recovers.
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5/15/2013
The body of Mikaela Lynch, the severely autistic nine year-old who disappeared from her family's vacation home near Clear Lake on Sunday afternoon has been found. Rescuers discovered the girl's body in Cache Creek, not far from where she disappeared. Trained search teams and volunteers had been out in force for the past four days hoping to find the girl alive. Cache Creek had been searched earlier in the week, but the waters were so muddy and full of debris that divers had to feel along the bottom of the bed. Authorities do not know how long Mikaela had been in the water, and have no indication of foul play.
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