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FAIRFIELD — The value of Travis Air Force Base to Solano County, the nation and the world was once again paramount in the decision-making of the Board of Supervisors. The board, on a 4-0 vote with Supervisor Erin Hannigan absent from the afternoon session, approved a General Plan amendment tightening restrictions on future wind-power projects that would negatively impact the air base. That decision Tuesday, with no opposition or even much discussion, preceded consideration of a zone text amendment establish- WILLIAMS ing new and tougher standards and regulations for short-term rentals – and, specifically, short-term vacation rentals. The board introduced the ordinance that now prohibits the so-called tourist homes – short-term vacation rentals – in rural residential zones, and except for the Agriculture Suisun Valley ag tourism-driven zone, also prohibits them in the very high fire hazard zones as defined by the state Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention. The Suisun properties in very high fire zones will be considered on a case-by-case basis with water availability, road access and other fire protection elements being critical in those decisions. Supervisor Wanda Williams, who represents the Suisun Valley area, said short-term rentals are businesses and should be treated as businesses, See Policies, Page A8
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A makeshift memorial is set up for Terra Star Jackson outside Grange Middle School in Fairfield, Tuesday.
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Viangly, a Venezuelan migrant, cries next to an ambulance in which her husband, who was injured in a fire, is being transported after a fire at the immigration station in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, Tuesday.
Fire at migrant center in Mexico near U.S. border kills at least 40
Terra Star Jackson is seen in a picture from the GoFundMe page for her memorial.
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New details have emerged from Monday’s shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, that left three children and three adults dead when an assailant targeted a Christian school, making it the latest American community to be rocked by the despair and trauma of gun violence, as police search for a motive. At a news conference Tuesday, Metro Nashville police Chief John Drake said authorities learned through interviews with the assailant’s parents that the shooter had legally purchased seven firearms from five local gun stores. Three were used in the attack at the Covenant School, Drake said. The parents said the shooter, whom authorities identified as 28-year-old former student Audrey Hale, was “under doctor’s care for emotional disorder,” Drake said. “Law enforcement knew nothing about the treat-
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The Washington Post CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — A fire at a migrant detention facility just south of the U.S. border killed at least 40 people in one of the deadliest tragedies in years involving foreigners apprehended while trying to reach the United States, Mexican authorities said Tuesday. Mexico’s National Migration Institute said the blaze started shortly before 10 p.m. Monday in the sleeping area of its office in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso. Sixty-eight men were staying in that part of the one-story building, according to the government-run institute. It appeared the fire was sparked during a protest by migrants who had learned they were going to be deported, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at a morning news conference. “In the door of the shelter they put some mattresses and set them on fire,” he said. “They never imagined that would cause this tragedy.” The Mexican Attorney General’s Office said the list of dead and injured included 28 Guatemalans, 13 Hondurans, 12 Salvadorans, 12 Venezuelans and one citizen each from Colombia and Ecuador. No specific breakdown was provided of those who died. Officials were notifying consulates for help in identifying the victims.
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ment (the shooter) was receiving, but the parents felt (the shooter) should not own weapons.” Drake said the assailant’s parents believed that the shooter had sold their only weapon and were unaware other weapons were hidden within the home. The attacker left their parents’ home Monday carrying a red bag and dismissed questions about what was inside, Drake said. The shooter’s mother told police that because she didn’t know her child had additional firearms, she “didn’t think any differently.” “If it had been reported that (the shooter) was suicidal or . . . was going to kill someone, had that been made known to us, then we would have tried to get those weapons,” Drake said. He did not explain what that would entail or how that might work legally. According to Everytown See Shooter, Page A8
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A woman hugs a police officer at the entrance of the Covenant School at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tennessee, Tuesday.
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FAIRFIELD — A memorial is growing on a chain link fence at Grange Middle School to honor Terra Star Jackson, 11, who was hit by a car Thursday morning near the school and taken off life support Sunday night. The Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District is offering mental health services to staff and students at all schools, said Lindsey Michels, district spokeswoman. There were no crossing guards on duty at the school.
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