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WEDNESDAY 1/15 Tempting fate Someone found his old drugs and was afraid he would do them, so he wanted an officer to come take them away on Chiles Road. Turning over a new leaf Someone reported a person was using a leaf blower in excess of noise limitations and was overly focused on one area […]

Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget for the 2014-15 year includes a five percent increase of funding to the University of California (UC) system, a shortfall from what the UC Regents requested from the state during their budget meeting in November. The proposed budget leaked to the Sacramento Bee on Jan. 8 and Brown confirmed the […]

On Friday, Jan. 10 at noon until Saturday, Jan. 11 around 1 p.m., the Campus Data Center suffered a sever service outage that persisted intermittently. Most of the service outage was characterized by the Private Cloud Service (PCS) being unavailable. This service comes from the Quest Data Center located on the UC Davis campus. What […]

THURSDAY 1/9 Talking trash On Leigh Drive, a known subject came up to someone’s door to ask who takes out the garbage and told her he was thinking of moving into the complex. FRIDAY 1/10 Getting blood from a stone Someone ran over a pebble on East 14th Street which then flew up and hit […]

For 2014, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) projected an increase of 2.8 percent in total residential natural gas and electric bills. This will translate to an increase of about $3 to $4 in payments for normal residential energy prices. “These increases in prices are not arbitrary,” said Jonathan Marshall, a representative from PG&E. “For […]

UC Davis Professor Art Shapiro, of the UC Davis Evolution and Ecology (EVE) Department, offers a pitcher of any kind of beer to the first person who catches the first cabbage white butterfly of each new year. The official flyers for the competition regard any participants as being an essential part of a 43-year study […]

The City-UCD Student Liaison Commission voted not to support a recommendation to Davis City Council for the Minor Alcohol Preclusion Act on Jan. 8 in a 4-2-0 motion. The commission is made up of 11 voting members and nine non-voting members that include UC Davis students, community members and law enforcement. The Minor Alcohol Preclusion […]

Two more candidates have announced their bids for the upcoming Davis City Council election. Daniel Parrella and Rochelle Swanson will be running against a third candidate, Robb Davis, for the June 2014 election. As of now, two City Council seats will become available in June, but if mayor Pro-Tem Dan Wolk wins the 4th Assembly […]

West Sacramento’s police department has been receiving a large volume of complaints in regard to medical marijuana license holders. As a result, a new ordinance about medical marijuana cultivation is set to be reviewed by the West Sacramento City Council on Jan. 15. Since West Sacramento does not have dispensaries, license holders have to grow […]

TUESDAY 12/31 Window-shopping A man was walking through the neighborhood on Bella Casa Street offering to clean windowsills but was also looking through the windows. Slow food movement A male was passed out in his vehicle in the drive-thru on G Street. WEDNESDAY 1/1 This is not a drill Two males, one carrying a hand […]

2013 has been declared the third consecutive dry year for California. Though Gov. Jerry Brown has not officially declared a drought, governmental entities such as the California State Board of Food and Agriculture, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), among others, are collaborating to come to consensus […]

From Dec. 13, 2013 to Jan. 1, 2014, Yolo County Police have arrested 60 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. In 2012, the number of DUI arrests was only 47. “Why was it up? I do not have an answer for that,” said Sergeant Rod A. Rifredi, traffic supervisor and Avoid […]