AUBERRY – A truck driver was killed yesterday when she was buried under 10 tons of cement, a Fresno County sheriff's official said.
The woman, whose identity wasn't released, worked as a cement truck driver and was reportedly standing at the top of a machine used to pour cement into trucks when she fell into a funnel and 10 tons of cement poured on top of her.
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Governor to ask Fox for immigration help
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said yesterday that he'll tell Mexican President Vicente Fox his government needs to do more to stop illegal immigration into the United States when the two meet today in Sacramento.
Schwarzenegger said he wouldn't be confrontational, but he will suggest Mexico pay for health care, education, incarceration and other immigration-related costs incurred by the state.
Fox is scheduled to spend today and tomorrow in California at the tail end of a four-day trip to the United States. It will be his first visit to the state since 2001.
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Road into Yosemite
to partially reopen
EL PORTAL – One of the highways leading into Yosemite National Park, closed since late April because of a rockslide, will be partially opened today, transportation officials said.
Tourists and other travelers will be able to take Highway 140 into the park again. The road will be open one way at a time, with flaggers controlling traffic at either end, state highway officials said yesterday.
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