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There are more than 800 million active users on Facebook.com. With over 50 percent of them logging on daily, it would seem Facebook is heading in the right direction. However, Facebook is planning on making changes in the upcoming weeks that have brought about mixed feelings, including adjusting the entire layout of users’ home pages.

Friends of the Davis Public Library will hold its bi-monthly book sale this Friday at the 315 E. 14th St. public library. On Friday, the sale is from noon to 2 p.m. for members of the Friends group only and will be open to non-members after 2 p.m. The three-day-long sale ends Sunday at 7 p.m.

The Davis Police Department has acquired photographs and surveillance footage of a person of interest in the attempted Target ATM heist last spring.

The Davis City Council is planning to cut $2.5 million from its budget. A city council meeting on Sept. 27 held a budget workshop that addressed unfunded liabilities and how the city may execute the cut.

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In a back alley warehouse on Olive Drive, right along a fence that borders the train tracks, with a guitar case against a wall, containers stacked on shelves and mason jars scattered everywhere, resides Pepper Peddler Coffee.

The Davis Bicycle Parade, otherwise known as the World’s Greatest Bicycle Parade, took place on Sunday at 10:02 AM. A four-mile long route, the parade began in front of the Davis Odd Fellows Hall on 415 Second St. in downtown Davis.

Brett Lee, 46, announced his candidacy for June 2012 Davis City Council election on Saturday morning at the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame. Lee is an industrial engineer and business planner.

The Davis Police Department was dispatched to 945 J Street for a dead body, on Saturday. The officers found a 42-year-old deceased male on his bedroom floor. The victim’s name is being withheld pending positive identification by the Yolo County Coroner’s Office.

The Davis City Council is holding off until next year to decide the fate of the Davis Area Cooperative Housing Association (DACHA), one of the several cooperative groups in the area.

Netflix, the company credited with changing the way we rent movies, is undergoing some growing pains, and much like any adolescent, the company is alienating those closest to it.