City News

The U.S.Bicycling Hall of Fame could be moving to Davis.After the Amgen Bike Tour‘s kickoff in Davis on Feb.15,and the bike exhibition featured downtown last fall,attracting the Hall of Fame would be a crowning achievement for Davis bike enthusiasts.

Reports of data breaches increased47percent in2008,according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.The number of breaches reported jumped from446in2007to656.

A group of scientists released a report last week claiming that climate change will have a dramatic effect on future bird populations.The authors of the study are calling on lawmakers to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and improve conservation efforts to protect the birds.

It‘s no secret that textbooks are expensive. Financial help is on the way for middle to low-income students and families who have a harder time paying for the hundreds of dollars worth of textbooks needed for class each term.

After an outpouring of privacy concerns from many of its users,popular social networking site Facebook scrapped itsnew terms of service agreement.

THURSDAY Too secure On University Avenue,anindividualcould not unlock their U-lock because it was jammed.

The budget picture for the city of Davis is not pretty. The city faces a nearly$2.4million shortfall in revenues for the current fiscal year due to lower than expected revenues from property taxes,sales taxes and other city income.

A free public lecture will take place at the Varsity Theater tonight at7to celebrate the200thAnniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the150th Anniversary of Darwin’s publishing of “On the Origin of Species.“ The event was first initiated by Angus Chandler and Dena Grossenbacher,both members of the UC Davis Population Biology Graduate Group.

Sacramento man convicted on statutory rape counts A Yolo County jury convicted a 35-year-old Sacramento man of multiple counts of statutory rape and oral copulation with a minor,according to an announcement from District Attorney Jeff Reisig.

Last month’s crash of US Airways flight 1549 into the Hudson River has airports across the country considering the severe danger of bird strikes. Flight 1549 was brought down when birds were caught in each of the plane’s engines at 3,200 ft.

Underfunding from the state and a surge in new cases has put Yolo Superior Court in a precarious position.Yolo Superior Court dealt with a large increase in case filings last year,according to statistics released early this month.

It’s hard to miss the huge downtown banner – California Duck Days is coming to Davis. Starting Friday night with a free evening welcome reception at the Davis Art Center and continuing all day Saturday with day trips throughout the area, California Duck Days is the one of the oldest wildlife festivals run by the Yolo Basin Foundation.