| Bay Area people of note who died in 2008 (San Francisco Chronicle) |
| A restaurateur. A lion keeper. A breast cancer activist. A heroine in the AIDS epidemic. A nightclub singer, Bayview-Hunters Point community activist, World War II hero and key figure in the Free Speech Movement. They were among the thousands of people who... |
| 01/01/2009 |
| Hundreds of Central Texans plan to bus to Washington (Austin American-Statesman) |
| Reginald Smith, 71, whose family has roots in Central Texas that extend back to the 1840s, was raised by a maid and a porter in East Austin. As a college student at Lincoln University in Chester County, Pa., he traveled to school from Austin on a segregated bus. During one trip he recalled recently, he sat next to an elderly African American woman at the back of the bus as they neared a sign ... |
| 12/29/2008 |
| A man and his American flag (Elk Grove Citizen) |
| Dean Miller just wants to fly his American flag. Miller, a six-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and who served in Operation Desert Storm, lives at the Vintage Creek apartments on Elk Grove-Florin Road. |
| 12/29/2008 |
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