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Obsolete electronics often have a morgue of their own. While cadavers repose in refrigeration with a purpose, old cell phones and chargers lie idle in the back corner of the common dresser-drawer for an eternity.

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Californians are not happy with the government, and economic conditions are not helping.

Hope for a financially stable higher education system in California may seem implausible, but AB 656 by Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico (D-Fremont) rekindles some faith that the University of California, California State Universities and community colleges will have some help.

Last Saturday evening, Yolo County emergency crews received calls from residents stating that a fireball had fallen from the sky.

Around 300 people came to the Veterans Memorial Center in Davis on Nov. 8 to hear U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer speak at Davis' annual Bean Feed.

What started as a small San Francisco online gaming company three years ago has now grown into a 600-employee company.

Organizations are taking bigger steps in raising the chances of a match for those in need of bone marrow transplants (BMTs). Raising the availability of BMT donors has taken a route through the legal system.

In the face of rising tuition costs for the winter quarter, UC Davis students can at least look forward to an unprecedented drop in electronics prices this season.

Whether there is life after death, reincarnation or a heaven above, the issue still remains of what to do with a deceased friend or family members' Facebook profile.

A new friendship has recently been forged between television networks and their former foe - Digital Video Recorders, or DVRs.

The United States passenger railroad, Amtrak, hopes technological improvements will attract more passengers. Amtrak announced that it plans to equip their trains with free Wi-Fi Internet in the following year to draw more riders.

The Measure P results are in. By a 74.7 to 25.3 percent vote, Parlin Development Company's project to rezone East Davis' Wildhorse Ranch from an agricultural area into a housing development failed.

Davis Wetlands Tour Yolo Basin Foundation, in cooperation with the City of Davis, will lead a free guided tour this weekend to view migratory waterfowl that have arrived at the Davis Wetlands. The new arrivals for winter in Davis are duck species like the bufflehead, green-winged teal and northern pintail. The newcomers will join resident species like cinnamon teal, mallard, killdeer, great blue heron and white-tailed kite.

After decades of debate over California's flawed water system, legislators have finally reached an agreement concerning a plan to improve it.