Linda News

Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, is a recipient of the 2013 Blue Planet Prize.

Solano and Contra Costa counties have jointly won a 2013 National Association of Counties Achievement Award for their "Roadmap to Cut Poverty" campaign.

Among the 200 American Vietnam prisoners of war and their families who recently gathered in the reproduced East Wing at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda were Whitethorn residents Everett and Evelyn King.

The boy that would grow up to be the love of Maxine Lane's life moved in across the street from her Cedar Rapids home when she was 11. The couple were in high school when World War II began, and she volunteered in the local rationing department.

More than 150 guests attended the annual Long Beach Day Nursery Tea for Tots at the historic Long Beach Museum of Art on May 18. The weather was perfect - sunny, not too hot, with a gentle breeze - and a spectacular view of the ocean, as always.

The part of the structure that originally housed a grocery store and was currently vacant fell in on itself on the 5700 block of Lindhurst Avenue.

Six graduates took their ceremonial walk as the first graduating class of Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy, requiring barely one chorus of "Pomp & Circumstance" to enter the hall and take their single row of seats.

Potential candidates for state assembly and congress are remaining tight lipped on events scheduled for them to announce their intentions to run.

Pathway Genomics' Hereditary Cancer DNA InsightSM test utilizes next-generation sequencing technology and will analyze genes related to a selection of hereditary cancers including breast, ovarian, colorectal and others.

Riverside County Democratic Central Committee Chairman Howard Katz is apologizing for making a reference to Vaudeville-era character "Stepin Fetchit," who some consider racially insensitive.

The oldest man ever known to have lived-Japan's Jiroemon Kimura-died Wednesday at 116.

Saint Mark's School will host a dedication ceremony for its new electric vehicle charging station at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13 at the school, 39 Trellis Drive in Terra Linda.

The Beverly Hills Book Awards announced its 2013 national winners this weeks and the Davis Farmers Market Cookbook won the Cookbooks - Regional Category.

The board of the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District split 4-4 over whether to direct managers to develop a rule on the practice formally called hydraulic fracturing.

More than 100 dead fish have been removed from Southside Park's pond after an increase in algae deprived the fish of adequate oxygen.

The event will include vendor show from noon to 7 p.m., family games and activities from noon to 5 p.m., steak cook-out from 4 to 7 p.m. The citizen, firefighter, law enforcement officer, dispatcher and EMT of the year will be honored at an awards ceremony at 7 p.m., followed by music and dancing.

Sacramento city parks and recreation officials removed dozens of catfish and hundreds of bluefish and perch that died in Southside Park's pond at T and 6th streets over the weekend.

A motorist drives through the intersection of California Oaks Rd and Jackson Ave. with yellow light in Murrieta, June 6, 2013.

In the heart of Wine Country, where harvest time produces pungent scents of fermenting grapes, the conversation these days is about another odor - that of skunk-like budding marijuana plants.

Special for Shorelines Linda and Hank Lesesne attended a reunion and gala dinner for POWs at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif.