Kathleen Sierra leads a pack of preschoolers over to a 13-foot-tall fossil cast of a Columbian mammoth. The kids gawk and point at the giant beast that once roamed the California landscape more than half a million years ago. Updated: Jan. 25, 2012 1:13 PM | Full Story

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It was truly one for the ages last Friday night in a packed Walter Wright Gymnasium on the campus of Chowchilla Union High School, as the boys and girls varsity basketball teams swept Washington Union High School Panthers on a night that featured four games, a near capacity crowd and the electric feel that something big was about to happen. Updated: Jan. 25, 2012 1:13 PM | Full Story

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It was truly one for the ages last Friday night in a packed Walter Wright Gymnasium on the campus of Chowchilla Union High School, as the boys and girls varsity basketball teams swept Washington Union High School Panthers on a night that featured four games, a near capacity crowd and the electric feel that something big was about to happen. Updated: Jan. 25, 2012 1:13 PM | Full Story

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