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Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war. He pulls a protest sign from his maroon 1961 Volkswagen van and joins a one-hour peace vigil at the Benton County courthouse in Corvallis, Ore. Epley has been doing this, day in and day out, since the United States launched its first airstrikes on Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001.
A $14 million federal grant will help pay for large batteries to store some of the wind energy tapped by the Modesto Irrigation District.
Nearly five years ago, Mark Lynch arrived in Southeast Asia for what promised to be the adventure of a lifetime.
Police on Wednesday were looking for two men believed to have robbed two Modesto cash advance businesses at gunpoint in the past two weeks.
Mohamad Samir "Sam" Alsabagh, a retired 20-year Navy veteran, doesn't understand why a fellow Muslim, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, allegedly opened fire with two handguns at Fort Hood, Texas, last week. "The media said he was an extremist Muslim. I don't know," said Alsabagh, a member of the Modesto Islamic Center's board who works as a benefits counselor for veterans.
Their faces tell just one piece of the story. They were young and old, a range of races. They came from all corners of the county, though the majority were concentrated inside Modesto's city limit. They are the homicide victims of Stanislaus County.
A pregnant woman who vanished. A husband convicted of killing her and their child. A story that gripped the nation.
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