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Pelosi vows infrastructure will pass this week, trims bigger bill Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged to pass a $550 billion infrastructure bill this week and signaled that the headline amount on a bigger package of spending and tax measures will be lowered from $3.5 trillion. In a nod to moderate Democrats eager to enact the road-and-bridges bill, Pelosi said she will put the Senate-passed measure forward on Monday, though she suggested wiggle room on the timing of the vote. “Well, let me just say we’re going to pass the bill this week,” she said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “We will bring the bill tomorrow for consideration.” Divisions between progressive and moderate Democratic factions will lead to a showdown over President Joe Biden’s economic agenda starting Monday with Pelosi facing competing demands to keep both bills on track to Biden’s desk. Progressives, whose votes are likely to be crucial, are insisting on progress first on the bigger bill, which includes spending on everything from child care to climate protection. Moderates such as West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin have said the price tag is too high. See Pelosi, Page A7
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Eric Land prepares for Fearfilled Prep School at the Sullivan Interagency Center in Fairfield, Wednesday.
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From left, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen briefly joins Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Thursday.
Palo Alto scientist pleads not guilty to setting Shasta fire that has claimed 41 homes Tribune Content Agency SAN JOSE — A Palo Alto woman has been charged with arson in connection with Shasta County’s Fawn Fire that has destroyed 41 homes and 90 smaller structures and is threatening thousands more. Alexandra Souverneva, a 30-year-old graduate of the California Institute of Technology and former Bay Area biotech employee, pleaded not Sheriff ’s guilty to the felony Douglas County Office/TNS charges against her during a Friday arraign- Arson charges have been filed against ment in the county’s Alexandra Souverneva Superior Court. She could for the Fawn Fire in face up to nine years in Shasta County. state prison if convicted. Facing a crowd of angry and displaced Shasta County residents at a community meeting on Saturday night, Shasta County Sheriff Michael L. Johnson said, “It is difficult to grasp when disaster like this is, apparently, not a natural disaster. But we have a suspect.” Deliberate ignition, if proven, “makes it harder for us all to grasp as a community, and See Fire, Page A7
Skeletons and mannequins are piled for the preparation of Fearfilled Prep School, a haunted attraction, at the Sullivan Interagency Center in Fairfield, Wednesday.
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Gabby Petito’s father at memorial: ‘Her nature was always to smile’ Tribune Content Agency HOLBROOK, N.Y. — Gabrielle Petito, the 22-year-old Blue Point native whose disappearance and death stunned Long Island and riveted the nation, was remembered Sunday in Holbrook as a kindhearted young woman with a zest for life. “I don’t want you guys to be sad,” her father, Joseph Petito, said during a memorial at Moloney Holbrook Funeral Home. “Gabby didn’t live that way . . . people gravitated toward her. Her nature was always to smile.” More than 1,000 people lined up to pay their respects to the young woman, whose image had been a familiar presence on the country’s airwaves as the search for her continued. Her mother had reported her missing Sept. 11. But the hunt for Gabby Petito ended tragically, with the discovery of her body a week ago in a remote area of the
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FAIRFIELD — Eric Land’s inner child takes over as Halloween draws near. He’s created Fearfilled Prep this year inside the Sullivan Interagency Youth Services gym. “There’s a lot of space here,” said Land, who heads up sKreamZ Haunted Attractions. “This is probably one of the biggest.” Land and the Fairfield Police Activities League began working together on haunted offerings in 2010, setting up frights in a variety of locations including the PAL’s former center next to Grocery Outlet, a onetime quilt shop in downtown Fairfield and a long-abandoned restaurant at the Solano Town Center mall.
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