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Car versus deer crashes are up due to mating season
Deer hunting season just ended, but the animals now face a threat as deadly as a speeding bullet: cars.
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Golden spike: Boom times for precious metal
CHICAGO -- The new gold rush is on. The price of the precious metal is soaring, hitting a record $1,119 an ounce on Wednesday -- confounding market analysts who thought there was no way gold would remain so expensive when it first cracked the
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Hundreds honor veterans at parade
OROVILLE -- A few hundred adults and children celebrated Veterans Day by attending the parade in downtown Oroville on Wednesday.
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Jerry Smith to become Butte County sheriff
OROVILLE -- Butte County sheriff's Capt. Jerry Smith hasn't been appointed to replace retiring Sheriff Perry Reniff, but he is going to be.
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Patriotic perspective: Biggs pilot's tales bring to life what Veterans Day's about
BIGGS -- Included among the thousands of American flags that will fly over Butte County today for Veterans Day will be the one on the flagpole in Lloyd Andes' front yard.
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Japanese magazine eyes Oroville tool museum for future article
OROVILLE -- For three Tokyo-based magazine representatives, there were loads of smiles, quips about tools, photos and even a group pose with Orovillians to send back home to Japan during a special visit Tuesday afternoon to Bolt's Antique Museum.
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Museum Talk: Medicine in early Oroville, part 1
If you have read the early Gold Rush history, it is a sad story of many young men and a few women who suffered and died of then-unknown illness and disease.
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Biggs, Gridley out of flood plain ... for now
BIGGS — In a move that even surprised the officials who asked for the intervention, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials have removed Biggs and Gridley from a list of communities where flood insurance would be required.
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Campus view: Butte College hosts delegation of Chinese educational leaders
BUTTE VALLEY -- Butte College is providing an education to some distant travelers — a delegation of college leaders from China.
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Joseph Paul Baker charged with felony assault in Forbetown beating
OROVILLE -- The 25-year-old man suspected of critically beating a man Thursday in Forbestown was formally arraigned on felony assault and other charges Monday at Butte County Superior Court.
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Parade to highlight Veterans Day
OROVILLE --The 11th annual Exchange Club Veterans Day parade will step off at 11 a.m. Wednesday, singling out the nurses who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam as the honorary grand marshals.
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Fire stations, sheriff's replacement on agenda
OROVILLE -- In response to a request by Butte County Supervisor Maureen Kirk of Chico, the board will revisit the question of fire station "brownouts" during today's meeting.
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Activist talks with passion of saving the environment
CHICO -- A famed environmentalist came to Chico State University on Saturday to give a serious talk about the environment, but with the way he played to the crowd at times, he could just as easily have been a comedian.
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Oroville's Own: "Cowgirl up' - Local youth will ride in international championships
OROVILLE — Olivia Evans knows what it means to "cowgirl up." The 17-year-old Oroville native and her 9-year-old gelding, Fifty-Fifty Chance, were a long shot for qualifying for the 2009 National Reining Horse Association Adequan North American
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Chico Nature Center's crow Gruck has died
CHICO -- The ebony crow, whose piercing caws and quick beak greeted thousands of guests to the Chico Creek Nature Center, has died.
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River Watcher: Grunt of the swine
Applying the name of "swine" to swine flu has given the word and animal a rather bad name. Webster's states that: "A swine is any of various stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous mammals (family Suidae) with a thick bristly skin and a long snout.
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High altitude wind power innovators work together
OROVILLE -- People attending the High Altitude Wind Power Conference came to Oroville and Chico from all over the world.
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District Attorney tells city of Oroville to correct Brown Act violation
OROVILLE -- Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey asked the city of Oroville to cure and correct a situation that a local woman reported as a Brown Act violation.
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Off the Record: Shopping trip becomes trip to the 'Twilight Zone'
I hate shopping so I always try to make it as entertaining as possible for myself. First of all there's the whole part.
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South Oroville historical society president is 'Our Town' radio guest
OROVILLE -- John Rivers, president of South Oroville African-American Historical Society, will be the guest at 11 a.
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