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3 days ago | dailyrepublic.com | Daniel DePetris

With the exception of a short trip to the Vatican to attend Pope Francis’ funeral, President Donald Trump has stayed stateside during the first three months of his second term. That will change Tuesday when the president begins a three-day visit to the Middle East to attend a series of meetings with Gulf Arab leaders and possibly drop in on a Gulf Cooperation Council summit. With the trip a week away, we still don’t know what Trump’s agenda is or what he seeks to accomplish.

3 days ago | dailyrepublic.com | Deon Price

I can still hear my mother's voice telling me “Boy, there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance."I didn’t realize what she meant by that until I became an adult. By then I had experienced a myriad of humbling experiences. As a young adult, I was a very angry, self-righteous and self-serving dude. Over time, I began to lose some valuable relationships. I took enough Ls to realize that it was me who needed to make some changes to my attitude.

4 days ago | dailyrepublic.com | Matt Miller

FAIRFIELD — Eight Solano County schools were selected to compete next week in the Sac-Joaquin Section softball playoffs. Vanden High School was the top seed among them. The Lady Vikings were given the No. 2 seed in Division III and will host No. 15 Christian Brothers on Wednesday at 4 p.m. Vanden is 17-4 and co-champions of the Monticello Empire League with a 10-2 record. The Lady Vikings enter the playoffs having won 13 straight games.

5 days ago | dailyrepublic.com | Todd R. Hansen

FAIRFIELD — The man accused of killing a woman and trying to cover it up by burning her – resulting in the start of at least part of the 2020 LNU Lightning Complex Fire and two more deaths – pleaded Friday to three counts of murder and two counts of arson. Victor Serriteno pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Leon Bone and Douglas Mai, and second-degree murder of Priscilla Castro. “This was one of the most catastrophic fires in the history of Solano County.

5 days ago | dailyrepublic.com | Todd R. Hansen

DIXON — Charlie Massey walked around the antique Caterpillar exhibit like he was greeting old friends. "My dad used to buy up old farm equipment. He'd fix them up and resold them at the ranch. There were always a lot of Caterpillars," said Massey, 88, who grew up in Iowa and now lives in Napa with his son. The family raised pigs and grew corn. He is an Army veteran and retired mechanic/machinist.