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A week after Sprint Cup driver A.J. Allmendinger failed a second urine sample, Penske Racing announced Wednesday the former Hollister resident will be released from his contract.

In my last column, I wrote about finding a dog locked in a car

Imagine fearing the outside world. Not terrorists or criminals

In May of 1915, after a 27,000-year nap, Lassen Peak blew ash, rock, and pumice 30,000 feet into the air. But Lassen Peak is only the largest lava dome that has formed around the base of the long gone and much larger Ancestral Brokeoff Volcano. At its largest, Brokeoff Volcano (aka Mount Tehama) was fifteen miles wide at its base and 11,000 feet high. Six hundred thousand years ago, it erupted in an explosion fifty times greater than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

For the past two weeks the media has been full of tributes to those killed in the infamous 9/11 attacks on the United States. The official commemorations and personal memories may have caused all who lived through that tragic time to reconsider our relationship to global terrorism and the religion of Islam.

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice released an album in 1976 in London of a show-to-be called “Evita.” By early 1977, the album took the world by storm and by the time “Evita” premiered in London in June of '78, everyone was humming "Don't Cry For Me Argentina."