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By JEFF MAISEY By Jeff Maisey Correspondent The sun has set on Hunter Hughes' stint as host of the eclectic "Sunrise on Sundays" program heard weekly from 6 to 10 a.m. on WPYA Bob FM. On-air personality Holly Williams will take over the show, which will reduced by two hours, 7 to 9 a.m. Hughes was informed of the station's decision on Monday, the day after he hosted and broadcast live from the third annual Sunrise to Sunset Acoustic Festival at Town Point Park. The festival was a...

Reports of unusually fiery orange sunsets on Earth and ruby red rings around the planet Venus have popped up on the Internet in the last week. Some skywatchers suspect that these views are being colored by the dust and gases injected into the atmosphere by the Aug. 7 eruption of Alaska's Kasatochi volcano. The skywatchers are probably right. Kasatochi, part of the Aleutian Island chain, sent an ash plume more than 35,000 feet (10,600 meters) into the atmosphere when it...

By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Aug. 7--El Dorado County became the first jurisdiction to endorse a regional fee program to help fund transportation projects in the Highway 50 corridor. Members of the Board of Supervisors said last week that their support was contingent on the backing of other participants in the Highway 50 Corridor Mobility Partnership and creation of a governing body to oversee the program. The partnership was formed about three years ago to develop a...

Sunrise Consulting Group Inc. (Pink Sheets:SNRS) announced today that they have completed their due diligence and are making final preparations to acquire the Cao Tin Iron Ore Mines in Hunan Province, China. The process had been delayed for several months due to heavy snow storms in February, which resulted in many landslides caused by the melting of snow in the mountainous areas. Sunrise CEO Raymond Chin commented, "We are very excited to have now completed this final phase of fact-finding...

By Mary Lynne Vellinga, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Jun. 6--When the city of Rancho Cordova incorporated, it inherited the 18,000-home Sunrise Douglas housing project approved by Sacramento County supervisors in 2002. It also inherited a major legal headache. In the latest legal fallout, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Lloyd Connelly ordered Rancho Cordova to rescind the county's approval for the Sunrise Douglas community plan, and the more detailed plan for its first major section,...

Groundwork laid for next generation of space flightsNSF -- In a landmark test flight, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., and a team of research partners this month successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of 120,000 feet, borne by a balloon larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.The test clears the way for long-duration polar balloon flights beginning in 2009 that will capture unprecedented details of the Sun's surface."This unique research...