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Maggie the cattle dog headed back to the ranch Wednesday.
Maggie the cattle-herding border collie is back with owner John Reader at his Nevada County spread. After her release Wednesday from Loomis Basin Veterinary Clinic, she’ll still need months to recover from being run over by a driver last month. Dozens of people donated to help pay for Maggie’s treatment.
SECOND – Maggie, the injured cattle dog, licks her wounds briefly as she is released from Loomis Basin Veterinary Hospital after surgery and treatment from being hit by a car during a cattle drive three weeks ago. The driver of the vehicle was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, cruelty to animals and vandalism. Over the past few weeks members of the community donated enough money to cover her treatment. Her prognosis is very good. July 6, 2011
DETAIL or REFER – Maggie, the injured cattle dog, is released from Loomis Basin Veterinary Hospital with her owner, John Reader, of Nevada City, after surgery and treatment from being hit by a car during a cattle drive three weeks ago. The driver of the vehicle was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, cruelty to animals and vandalism. Over the past few weeks members of the community donated enough money to cover her treatment. Her prognosis is very good. July 6, 2011
JUMP – Maggie poses for a picture with veterinary surgeon, Mike Dearmin, at Loomis Basin Veterinary Hospital after surgery and treatment from being hit by a car during a cattle drive three weeks ago. Dearmin said she has a very good attitude and was easy to work with during her stay with them. July 6, 2011
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Maggie the cattle dog headed back to the ranch Wednesday.
Maggie the cattle-herding border collie is back with owner John Reader at his Nevada County spread. After her release Wednesday from Loomis Basin Veterinary Clinic, she’ll still need months to recover from being run over by a driver last month. Dozens of people donated to help pay for Maggie’s treatment.
SECOND – Maggie, the injured cattle dog, licks her wounds briefly as she is released from Loomis Basin Veterinary Hospital after surgery and treatment from being hit by a car during a cattle drive three weeks ago. The driver of the vehicle was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, cruelty to animals and vandalism. Over the past few weeks members of the community donated enough money to cover her treatment. Her prognosis is very good. July 6, 2011
DETAIL or REFER – Maggie, the injured cattle dog, is released from Loomis Basin Veterinary Hospital with her owner, John Reader, of Nevada City, after surgery and treatment from being hit by a car during a cattle drive three weeks ago. The driver of the vehicle was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, cruelty to animals and vandalism. Over the past few weeks members of the community donated enough money to cover her treatment. Her prognosis is very good. July 6, 2011
JUMP – Maggie poses for a picture with veterinary surgeon, Mike Dearmin, at Loomis Basin Veterinary Hospital after surgery and treatment from being hit by a car during a cattle drive three weeks ago. Dearmin said she has a very good attitude and was easy to work with during her stay with them. July 6, 2011
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An Air National Guard helicopter crew rescued a tired missing hiker suffering from dehydration in the Eldorado National Forest.
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An Air National Guard helicopter crew rescued a tired missing hiker suffering from dehydration in the Eldorado National Forest.
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A 7-year-old girl has died from accidental head injuries suffered when a television fell and struck her Tuesday afternoon in a church rectory in Colusa, the Colusa Police Department reported.
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Visitors to the Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail near Susanville will face a detour in July due to a trestle painting project.
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A Reno man took a fatal fall Sunday while hiking at Frazier Falls, a scenic landmark on the Plumas National Forest five miles south of Graeagle.
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Fifteen years after passage of the state’s landmark “three strikes” sentencing law, prosecutors in Sacramento and throughout California have become far more selective in applying the full force of the statute, reducing the number of lifetime prison terms being sought for third strikers to a relative trickle.
Steve Cooley refined the application of “three strikes” prosecutions after he was elected Los Angeles County district attorney in 2000.
Mike Reynolds authored “three strikes,” then followed it with 1998′s “10-20-life” law, imposing harsh sentences for using a gun during a crime.
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Continuing an long-standing trend, gasoline and diesel fuel use in California declined in both March and the first quarter of this year.
In a June 28, 2011 photo, a pair of Toyota Prius hybrid autos bearing yellow California DMV decals on their left front of their bumpers, carrying the drivers alone, are seen in carpool lanes on Interstate 405 in Los Angeles. The program that allowed single occupants of hybrids to use carpool lanes expires at the end of June.
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Continuing a long-standing trend, gasoline and diesel fuel use in California declined in both March and the first quarter of this year.
In this June 21, 2011 photo, Shell gas worker Toke Fusi lowers gas prices at a Shell gas station in Menlo Park, Calif. Wary of a new surge in gas prices, the Obama administration has decided to release 30 million barrels of oil from the country’s emergency reserve as part of a broader international response to lost oil supplies caused by turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly Libya.
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A motley crew of volunteers is fitting planks of purpleheart across a gaping hole in the hull of a slender sailboat propped up in the sand near Humboldt Bay.
Leroy Zerlang inspects the Golden Rule after hauling it to his Eureka boatyard. It had been at the bottom of Humboldt Bay.
The Golden Rule sits high and dry but also heavily damaged and deteriorated on the sand near Humboldt Bay late last summer. Much work has since been completed by members of two Humboldt County chapters of Veterans for Peace.
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At a sprawling manufacturing complex, hundreds of Chinese laborers are now completing work on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
A worker at Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries welds parts of a steel section of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge built in China. One steel polisher says he makes $12 a day at the plant.
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Ciarra Stroud, 13, has faced a school cafeteria filled with strangers and the fear of sitting alone at lunch.
Mattie Rawers, left, president of Student 2 Student at Junipero Serra High School in San Diego, chats with Dominique Jones, 18, whose father is deployed in Afghanistan, and Warren Hawkins, right. The program welcomes new students from military families through tours, activities and lunches with student guides.
Marie Keller, vice president of the Student 2 Student club for military kids, stands to introduce herself during a pizza party at Junipero Serra High in San Diego. Keller said the group helps ease new students’ fears about bullying . “I think they like having us and knowing they’re safe,” she said.
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A big rig slammed into the side of a Sacramento-bound Amtrak train in northern Nevada on Friday, setting fire to the train and leaving at least two people dead and dozens injured.
Passengers and Amtrak staff stand near a train hit by a truck Friday at a U.S. 95 rail crossing.
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People who fish and hunt in California have less protection of their privacy right under the U.S. Constitution, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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