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Vigil held for Linda teen who died in crash

Coti Leal loved Slurpees, Silly String and the Oakland Raiders. The 16-year-old from west Linda invented games with his friends, like jousting in the streets with bikes as horses, chairs for shields and mops for weapons. More than anything, he adored his 2-year-old niece, Chloe, and would abandon...

Wonderline: Readers ask about candidates, election

Posted: Saturday, April 28, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 8:55 am, Sat Apr 28, 2012. Q: I’m registered as a non-partisan voter. My question is if I could still request to vote on the Republican ballot for the U.S. Senate.

It's my funeral: getting ready for the end

A new wave of undertakers is working to put some life into the business of death. With some trepidation, Euan Ferguson starts planning a celebratory send-off of his own Death: The Great Adventure. Either the most exciting sentence ever written – if, um, true – or one spitting bitter, sarcastic brimstone, probably written near the writer's end, while surely rather scared and angry. And how we ...

Kicks: Air Jordan IV ‘Cavs’ Out Saturday

Grab these black, blue and orange joints this weekend.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: The Ballad of the Muscle Hamster

Yes, that is a real nickname.  And yes, the Buccaneers drafted him.  While I spent a great deal of time scouting Doug Martin, until he was made the 31st pick of the draft I had never heard of the name "Muscle Hamster." I was captivated by this title. No one ever calls me something that amazingly awesomerific. What beauty, what accuracy, what perfection this moniker holds. The Boise State Bronco ...