Tracie Cone

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1 year later, lone gray wolf still prowling Calif.

Tracie Cone · January 6, 2013 6:26 pm

In this Dec. 18, 2012 photo, one of the region's thousands of oil pumps sits in the foreground of the new Westside Parkway under construction in Bakersfield, Calif. Much of the economic boom Bakersfield is enjoying is because high oil prices and new technology for extraction have revived the $10 billion industry that seemed dried up 25 years ago when Kern County set out to diversify its economy and expand its tax base. (AP Photo/Tracie Cone)

Din of hammers, oil wells signal Bakersfield boom

Tracie Cone · December 29, 2012 9:05 pm

In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 is a vineyard that was grafted with Cabernet Sauvignon earlier this year at Trefethen Family Vineyards in Napa, Calif. Napa Valley, one of California's premier wine growing regions, has an uncommon problem these days: Not enough new grape root stock to go around. Commercial nurseries were caught short by a trifecta of developments: aging vines planted after a deadly phylloxera outbreak of the 80s, the demand created by an improving economy and move toward grape plantings that allow some mechanization. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Massive Napa do-over prompts grape plant shortage

Tracie Cone · December 16, 2012 8:55 pm

Massive Napa do-over prompts grape plant shortage

Tracie Cone · December 16, 2012 8:53 pm

Autopsy: Suspect in reservation slayings shot self

Tracie Cone · December 14, 2012 7:41 pm

This Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, photo shows a makeshift memorial on the Tule River Indian Reservation near Porterville, Calif. Authorities are piecing together what led a man to kill his mother and two uncles, and shoot his three children before being killed in a shootout with police on Saturday. The violence shook the tiny Tule River Indian Reservation, home to 800 residents and high poverty. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, Lew Griswold) LOCAL PRINT OUT (VISALIA TIMES-DELTA, REEDY EXPONENT, KINGBURG RECORDER, SELMA ENTERPRISE, HANFORD SENTINEL, PORTERVILLE RECORDER, MADERA TRIBUNE, THE BUSINESS JOURANL FRENSO); LOCAL TV OUT (KSEE24, KFSN30, KGE47, KMPH26)

Small Calif. tribe prepares to bury 5 from rampage

Tracie Cone · December 12, 2012 2:40 am

This Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, photo shows a makeshift memorial on the Tule River Indian Reservation near Porterville, Calif. Authorities are piecing together what led a man to kill his mother and two uncles, and shoot his three children before being killed in a shootout with police on Saturday. The violence shook the tiny Tule River Indian Reservation, home to 800 residents and high poverty. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, Lew Griswold) LOCAL PRINT OUT (VISALIA TIMES-DELTA, REEDY EXPONENT, KINGBURG RECORDER, SELMA ENTERPRISE, HANFORD SENTINEL, PORTERVILLE RECORDER, MADERA TRIBUNE, THE BUSINESS JOURANL FRENSO); LOCAL TV OUT (KSEE24, KFSN30, KGE47, KMPH26)

Tribe prepares to bury 5 slain members in Calif.

Tracie Cone · December 11, 2012 4:41 am

This undated photo provided by the Tulare County Sheriff's Department shows Hector Celaya, 31. Authorities say that Celaya is a suspect in shootings in which three people died and four others, including two young girls, were wounded Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, on the Tule River Indian Reservation in the Sierra foothills of California's Central Valley. (AP Photo/Tulare County Sheriff's Department)

5 dead in Calif. Indian reservation shootings

Tracie Cone · December 10, 2012 9:52 am

Rhoda Hunter, tribal council secretary of the Tule River Indian Reservation, walks into Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church for Mass, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, at the Tule River Indian Reservation in California. The church bell, its tower being renovated, has tolled throughout the day on Sunday to honor those killed in what many believe is the worst mass murder in tribal history. Hector Celaya, 31, is a suspect in shootings in which three people died and four others, including two young girls, were wounded Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, on the reservation in the Sierra foothills of California's Central Valley. Since 1933 the church bell has slowly tolled to alert tribal members when someone dies. "That's our way of notifying our people that someone has passed away," Hunter said. (AP Photo/Tracie Cone)

Cops knew man who killed 4 on Calif. reservation

Tracie Cone · December 10, 2012 5:00 am

This undated photo provided by the Tulare County Sheriff's Department shows Hector Celaya, 31. Authorities say that Celaya is a suspect in shootings in which three people died and four others, including two young girls, were wounded Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, on the Tule River Indian Reservation in the Sierra foothills of California's Central Valley. (AP Photo/Tulare County Sheriff's Department)

3 dead, 3 children injured in shootings in Calif.

Tracie Cone · December 9, 2012 5:00 am

In this 2009 photo released by Steve Sillett, The President, a Giant Sequoia Tree, is shown in Sequoia National Park, Calif. After 3,240 years the Giant Sequoia is still growing wider at a consistent rate, which may be what most surprised the scientists examining how they and coastal redwoods will be impacted by climate change and whether they have a role to play in combatting it. (AP Photo/Steve Sillett) MANDATORY CREDIT

Upon further review, giant sequoia tops a neighbor

Tracie Cone · December 3, 2012 2:21 pm

In this 2009 photo released by Steve Sillett, The President, a Giant Sequoia Tree, is shown in Sequoia National Park, Calif. After 3,240 years the Giant Sequoia is still growing wider at a consistent rate, which may be what most surprised the scientists examining how they and coastal redwoods will be impacted by climate change and whether they have a role to play in combatting it. (AP Photo/Steve Sillett) MANDATORY CREDIT

Upon further review, giant sequoia tops a neighbor

Tracie Cone · December 2, 2012 3:28 pm