’Jackets slaughter shorthanded Encinal 12-1
By Jared Green
Daily Planet Staff
Friday December 22, 2000
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Sun calendar dream coming true
By Erika Fricke
Daily Planet Staff
Friday December 22, 2000
Santiago Casal has been dreaming of a sun calendar memorial for over 20 years, and he’s willing to wait as long as it takes to bring the project to fruition. -more-
Resident petitions Bush win
By Judith Scherr
Daily Planet Staff
Friday December 22, 2000
It seems Nick Slater has hit a nerve with a petition drive claiming that a George W. Bush presidency would be illegitimate. -more-
Governor releases proposal to expand families’ program
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
Features
Four indicted in bogus blood tests
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
LOS ANGELES — In what prosecutors call the largest case ever involving fraudulent medical bills submitted by a California laboratory, a federal grand jury has indicted four people on charges of billing the Medi-Cal program for nearly $20 million worth of bogus blood tests. -more-
Woman throws daughters, self off of roof after facing eviction
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
LOS ANGELES — Every few minutes Thursday, someone would lean over the ninth floor courthouse balcony, standing on tiptoes to peer over the wall. -more-
A wreath brings joy in winter
By Lee Reich
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
Here we are in the 21st century, and still infusing life into our winters with cut evergreen boughs, just as did the ancient Egyptians, Persians, Jews, Christians, and Druids. -more-
Winterberries brighten landscape
By Lee Reich
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
Along fields and in the woods over much of North America, your eye could catch some bright color even this time of year. -more-
National organic standards released
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
Organic food could become cheaper and more widely available now that uniform federal organic standards, a decade in the making, have finally become law. The standards are expected to draw big growers into the small but growing market. -more-
Religious groups exempt from preservation laws
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that exempts religious organizations from local preservation laws and lets them raze and replace historic church buildings. -more-
PUC backs utilities on consumer rate hikes
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
SAN FRANCISCO — In the strongest sign yet that millions of Californians will soon be paying sharply higher electric bills, state utility regulators Thursday said consumers should pay more to keep the state’s largest electric companies from going bankrupt. -more-
Stocks rise as investors abandon their fears
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
NEW YORK — Investors sought bargains on Wall Street Thursday, sending blue chips soaring while leaving the Nasdaq in positive territory for the first time in eight sessions. -more-
UPS bears the last-minute brunt
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
HODGKINS, Ill. — Not counting Santa’s workshop, or maybe Macy’s on Christmas Eve, it would be tough to find a busier place during the holidays than UPS’s mammoth package-processing plant outside Chicago. If the slowing economy has put a chill on holiday shopping, no such evidence was visible at the frenzied facility Tuesday on “Peak Day,” the busiest shipping day of the year. -more-
Editorial
Lawyers say homeless claims not fully evaluated
The Associated Press
Friday December 22, 2000
SAN FRANCISCO — Federal and state agencies systematically deny benefits to California’s homeless and disabled by failing to evaluate their claims fully, a group of attorneys from the San Francisco Bay area claim. -more-
