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Hot dogs are distributed at National Night Out at the Aquatic Complex at Allan Witt Park in Fairfield, Tuesday.

National Night Out celebrations gather neighbors, friends and a visit from Marty McFly’s truck Amy Maginnis-Honey

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FAIRFIELD — Jack Russo was prepared for the $64,000 question at Tuesday’s National Night Out. The project manager traveled from Daly City to show off his restored 1987 Toyota 4x4, representing Marty McFly’s truck from “Back to the Future” movies. When asked if he would share how much money he spent restoring the truck, Russo headed to the truck and returned with a copy of Grays Sports Almanac, 1950-2000. The same book featured in the same film series. “I made a couple of bets in this,” he said, flipping pages. “That paid for it,” he added with a chuckle. Russo has lost count of the

number of times he watched the “Back to the Future” trilogy. Another viewing was added on a recent plane trip to Europe, where, from the many choices, Russo opted to watch the first “Back to the Future” movie. He found the truck, after an exhaustive search, on Craigslist, in 2012 . Within a year, it was completely restored and ready to be featured at car shows and even fan conventions. The Fairfield Police Department’s Crime Prevention Team to participate in National Night Out in downtown Fairfield. He made the trek in the truck, drawing attention on the roads. Thumbs up are common response when people see the truck. “Those who bounce up and down,

scream and laugh, recognizing the truck are the real fans,” he said. Guests were allowed to snap photos in front of the truck and asked not to touch the truck. There was a time the truck was on display in the Moscone Center for a few days and the fingerprints were obvious, from across the room. Having to wipe them off seems seems to make the little nicks more prominent, he said. Shyanne Joseph stopped by with her daughter Elizabeth Joseph, 4. The girl spent some time playing a bean bag toss game, some with Bee Xiong, an investigator with the Solano County District Attorney’s office. Seeing kids such as Elizabeth was great, he said. See Night, Page A9

Third gig was a charm for Leaving Theodora Amy Maginnis-Honey

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VACAVILLE — Three seems to be the lucky number for the Leaving Theodora, who won the 2023 Singer Songwriter contest on Friday. It was the band’s third gig. Leaving Theodora is a trio of longtime friends and musicians, who grew up in Vacaville. Drummer/percussionist Michael Santoni, guitarist Paul Deal and bassist Randy Marshall, bring a rich history of music to the band. Deal and Marshall were in a handful of bands together, including the Plain Janes, an alt-rock band that played on the west coast of the US in the late 1990s. Santoni toured the globe with other bands. A Plain Janes reunion in 2018, was the beginning of Leaving Theodora. The three, who are also a mutual admiration society, began jamming in a wood shed and liked what they hearing and what was happening. Marshall and Santoni

say Deal is the ultimate songwriter. When asked to join Leaving Theodora, Deal felt insecure. But it was also an outlet for his four years of written songs in limbo. “Now they have taken on a life of its own,” Deal said. ‘Paul gets stuff in his head 24/7,” Marshall said. “He has to put the stuff down.” Deal may bring a tune to rehearsal, Marshall and Santoni will play it and see where it goes. “We are blessed to have the ability to communicate,” Marshall said. The band’s moniker came from a debate regarding whether Theodora should be one or two words. Santoni sent a text to his bandmates, saying he was OK with leaving it one word. Santoni, Deal and Marshall recalled Vacaville in their youth, going to Journey Downtown, which was then a movie theater. “I grew up in that place,” Marshall said. “it’s great to come back and play on See Gig, Page A9

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Michael Santoni, Randy Marshall and Paul Deal, of Leaving Theodora.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on four felony counts following a special counsel investigation into efforts to stop the transfer of power after his 2020 election loss and his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Trump is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights, and obstruction of or attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. The indictment alleges that Trump sought to discount legitimate votes and subvert the 2020 presidential election results through three criminal conspiracies: obstructing the nation’s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election; impeding the Jan. 6, 2021, count and certification of the presidential election

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Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on an indictment alleging four felony counts against former U.S. President Donald Trump at t he Justice Department, in Washington, D.C, Tuesday. results; and denying the right to vote and to have that vote counted. Trump said last month that he had been notified he was the target of special counsel Jack Smith’s probe, which began late last year amid televised hearings conducted by a congressional select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Those proceedings laid out many See Counsel, Page A9

Trump, Biden neck and neck in 2024, Siena/NYT poll finds Tribune Content Agency Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are locked in a neck-and-neck race for the White House in 2024, a new poll revealed. Despite Trump’s deepening legal woes, voters are split right down the middle in a rematch of the 2020 race with 43% supporting each candidate, according to a new Siena College/New York Times poll released Tuesday. In a glimmer of good news for Democrats, the 14% of voters who don’t support either candidate seem to lean fairly strongly to Biden. The president opens up a narrow 2% overall lead in the poll when those so-called “double hater” voters are allocated based on whom they say they voted for last time. Biden holds a similar advantage if the poll is only limited to those who actually voted in either 2020 or 2022. Biden beat Trump by 4.5% in 2020, or about 7 million votes. But that popular vote victory translated into a razor-thin margin in

battleground states like Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia that forged his win in the electoral college, suggesting the poll’s margin could lead to another extreme nail biter. The poll shows Biden is consolidating support among Democrats, many of whom once hoped he would hand over the baton to a younger, more dynamic figure. Another sign of potential upside for Biden is that young voters, who overwhelmingly hold liberal views on issues like abortion rights, are still on the fence. Trump, on the other hand, has maintained an enduring strength despite becoming the first former president to be criminally charged. The poll shows virtually no drop off among voters who supported him in 2020 and very little decline among Republicans, belying any possible affect from the criminal cases that Trump derides as a partisan witch hunt. He has maintained See Poll, Page A9

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