Girl’s Killer Begs for Forgiveness

Bill would target spouses who hire hit men
The story behind the legislation reads like a movie pitch.The wife of a Southern California police detective, distraught because she had lost custody of her children, tries to hire a hit man from the Vagos motorcycle gang to kill him.

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Alcohol-safety board gives up decertification fight
The suspended governing board of the Capital Area Alcohol Safety Action Program has given up its fight with the state commission that decertified it last year, and all but two of the members have quit — mainly in frustration.

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Girl’s killer begs for forgiveness
STOCKTON — A newly released court document shows Monday that Melissa Huckaby drugged her 8-year-old neighbor, Sandra Cantu, and sexually assaulted her with a rolling pin before stuffing her body into a suitcase and throwing it into a Tracy irrigation pond last year.

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