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They're doing it Frank Sinatra's way

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Ten years after his death, Ol' Blue Eyes is the color of money under a new deal between the family and Warner Music Group Corp.

Anew era is beginning in the career of Frank Sinatra even if the Chairman of the Board isn't here to participate.

Barack Obama faces an untested set of hurdles

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

If he's chosen as the Democratic nominee, his race might be an issue, but experience and social issues loom much larger.

For the first time, a major political party is on the brink of choosing an African American as its candidate for president, but when Democratic strategists and other analysts look ahead, they don't see race as Barack Obama's biggest challenge.

Sacramento prepares for the worst -- massive flooding

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

State and federal agencies race to complete work designed to prevent the $25-billion disaster that could result if the rivers surrounding the capital city overflowed or breached aging levees.

SACRAMENTO — California's capital city may be best known for politics, but it has another claim to fame: It's America's most flood-threatened city not named New Orleans.

U.S. military hits a wall in Sadr City

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Despite last year's troop buildup, cleric Muqtada Sadr's influence remains strong and clashes are frequent in his militia stronghold.

In the glow of a full moon, a U.S. military convoy inched toward a strategic road in Sadr City. The goal: to add to a wall being built to carve out a haven in the Shiite Muslim militia stronghold.

Slow, steady -- and under siege

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Endangered tortoises airlifted from an Army base face other threats.

As the sun rose over the Mojave Desert, researcher Kristina Drake approached with caution as a creature with weary eyes, a scuffed carapace and skin as rough as rhino hide peered at her from the edge of a dirt road just east of here.

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