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Vacaville, CA—The Vacaville community is mourning 32-year-old Officer Matthew Bowen who was tragically killed while conducting a traffic stop on Thursday morning, July 11, 2024, ABC10 reports. The incident occurred near the intersection of Leisure Town Road and Orange Drive around 10:30 a.m., as confirmed by the Vacaville Police Department. Officer Bowen was in the process of initiating a traffic...

UNITED STATES—I absolutely love this place. I have been to a ton of amusement parks during my lifetime, but nothing and I mean nothing tops Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio for me. This place has the best thrill rides that I can imagine and if you forced me to pick any amusement park to go to, without a doubt,...

UNITED STATES—Attention San Francisco and Bay Area wine lovers!  As a true wine connoisseur, you have a deep and abiding understanding and appreciation of wine.  You possess extensive insight into wine styles, grapes, flavor profiles, and regions. Do you get chills when discovering a new wine worthy of adding to your collection? You can identify and describe the flavors...

UNITED STATES—School is out for summer, and that means kids, tweens, teens and parents stress galore. Summer is about three months if we’re being honest, June, July and August. Most kids are already out of school or will be getting out within the next week at the latest. With that said, it is time to start planning for those...

San Francisco, CA – A cyclist who tragically died after a collision with a parked city vehicle in Bayview has been identified as 70-year-old Steven Bassett of San Francisco, according to The San Francisco Standard. The incident occurred on Thursday, May 30, 2024, at approximately 9:30 AM at the intersection of Newhall Street and Fairfax Avenue. The San Francisco Public...

UNITED STATES—A report from The Conversation highlights that teens spend an average of 8.5 hours looking at screens every day for gaming and using social media, while tweens aged 8 to 12 clock in 5.5 hours of screen time daily. These numbers don’t include time spent using devices for schoolwork, leading to worries from parents about the repercussions of uninhibited...

Pleasant Hill, CA – The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is actively searching for a driver involved in a severe collision on Sunday afternoon, June 9, 2024, that left one person seriously injured on southbound Interstate Highway 680 near Pleasant Hill, according to CBS News Bay Area. CHP reports that the incident occurred at approximately 2:07 PM on southbound I-680, just...

Yountville, CA – A tragic head-on collision east of Yountville resulted in one fatality and five injuries on Saturday afternoon, June 8, 2024, according to CBS News Bay Area. The driver believed responsible for the crash fled the scene on foot and is currently being sought by authorities. The collision occurred around 4:20 PM in front of Silverado Vineyards at...

HOLLYWOOD—Something very strange is happening in Hollywood and the American public right now. It seems ever since COVID-19 exploded onto the scene in late February, early March 2020, the notion of going to the cinema has changed vastly. When nearly everything across the United States shutdown it was a massive adjustment for Americans to understand how isolation worked, and...

UNITED STATES—This is a country where we are consumed with health and eating whether we want to admit it or not. Food is part of our daily lives and will always be. However, do you find yourself ever arguing with people over what you eat and what you do not eat. I’m having that battle currently with family members...