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But the president said his former lawyer Michael Cohen — who cut a deal with prosecutors — should head straight to prison.

Angry opponents filled the hallways of the Wisconsin Capitol, and a hearing room, banging on doors and chanting "Respect our votes!" and "Shame!"

Based on wiretaps, police determined that Settimo Mineo was elected head of a reconstructed "cupola," or provincial mob commission, during a May 29 meeting of clan leaders in Palermo.

Besides the thousands of people streaming by, Sully, the late president's service dog, was brought by, too.

Dane Best, who lives in the often snow-swept town of Severance, presented his arguments at a town board meeting Monday night, and members voted unanimously to lift the ban.

At NATO talks in Brussels, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Russia of "cheating at its arms control obligations" under the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. He said in 60 days, Washington would activate a six-month notice period for leaving the pact.

As House Democrats begin laying out the vision for their new majority, that item is noticeably missing from the to-do list and firmly on the margins.

STOCKTON — One of the community’s most beloved holiday events has been rescheduled.The Hospice of San Joaquin’s annual Tree of Lights ceremony at San Joaquin Delta College is now scheduled for Dec. 11. It was postponed earlier this week because of poor air quality caused by the Northern California wildfires.The memory boards were put up for viewing on Tuesday.Dick Ennis, a retired Pacific Gas and Electric Co. employee and Stockton resident, will flip [...]

STOCKTON — State education leaders announced this week that high school graduation rates for 2018 remain near an all-time high with big gains made over the past several years.Among students who entered high school in 2014, 83 percent graduated with their class this year, up slightly from 82.7 percent a year ago, according to the California Department of Education. The state’s graduation rate also climbed since the class of 2010 recorded 74.7 percent. [...]

STOCKTON — As the 8 p.m. voting deadline drew near on Nov. 6, the San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters’ Office in downtown Stockton was jam-packed with last-minute ballot casters.By the time the day was through, 334 registered voters who had decided not to go to polling places had picked up vote-by-mail ballots that day and either filled them out on the spot or dropped them into ballot boxes around the city and county.Another 397 residents stopped by the [...]