Pleasanton News

The nearly $9 million dollar school bond passes in the village of Pleasanton, Neb.

Situated on a corner next to a boutique store and across the street from a pizza joint, Coast Gasoline is never an empty business.

More than 97 percent of Pleasanton's high school sophomores passed the high school exit exam needed for graduation this past year, according to results released Wednesday by the California Department of Educatioi»¿n . In the Pleasanton Unified School District, 98 percent of the 1,213 who took the mathematics part of the test passed the exam.

A would-be robber shot two officers before retreating into a pharmacy, where a standoff dragged on for hours, ending in gunfire and the man's death.

The Omaha company sponsors swimmers and, in return, the athletes appear on behalf of the company at events around the country.