Sandy Friend's eight-year-old son Michael Lyons was murdered in Yuba City back in 1996.

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Those in Yuba City would pay 32 percent of income.

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When Yuba City and Del Campo High junior varsity baseball players brawled earlier this week during a tournament in California, something did not happen that might have taken place if the fight were, say, outside a convenience store: someone calling the police, and arrests being made.

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