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Because of "security concerns," a District 4 congressional debate between two Republican hopefuls at Sierra College was cancelled, but all four GOP candidates will have a chance to discuss issues on air in KFBK ...

May 31, 2008 10:52 AM AP Rep. Laura Richardson , whose Sacramento home was recently sold into foreclosure, has two other homes in Southern California that have fallen into default six times, according to a ...

A crowd of nearly 150 was on hand Thursday morning for the dedication of the Placer County Water Agency's American River pump station and river restoration project alongside the river.

Campaign '08 Complete Coverage SACRAMENTO, Calif. A new poll is showing that Democrats in California are now supporting Barack Obama for the party's nomination.

An infestation of rats and mice has led to the partial shutdown of a movie theater in Sacramento, KCRA-TV reported.

May 29, 2008 1:16 PM AP 1 hr 39 ago: Northern Calif. man dies after police use Tasers A Woodland man has died after police officers fired on him with a Taser stun gun.

Published 5:05 pm PDT Thursday, May 29, 2008 Sacramento City College officials broke ground today for a new Educational Center in West Sacramento, a facility that will include a public library and a community ...

Sacramentan Ulla McDaniel has a case of the travel jitters. So do Loren Sanders of south Sacramento and Kathie Darnell in Placerville.

The California Assembly has approved legislation that would put some limits on development in rural areas that have a high wildfire danger.

A 52-year-old pedestrian was killed Wednesday night after being hit by a van, Roseville police said.

Two Sacramento-area men were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of making separate bomb threats, one against Delta Airlines and the other against the U.S. Embassy in Italy.

Tre Arrow, a radical environmentalist who was once one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, has announced on his Web site he has accepted a plea deal on federal arson and conspiracy charges.

Former Gov. Pete Wilson endorsed Sacramento businessman Doug Ose in the 4th Congressional District race Tuesday, while blasting his opponent, Tom McClintock.

Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis talk with a friend before a rally at the LGBT Community Center in San Francisco, May 15, 2008.

Rep. Laura Richardson will face an uphill fight as she tries to reclaim her Sacramento house, which was sold in a foreclosure auction three weeks ago.

Linda Waits wants to help save the environment but, she admits, sometimes even the simplest fixes are easy to forget.

Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who put California wine country on the global map, has died.

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, center, gestures as she discusses Gov.

Main Category: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Article Date: 22 May 2008 Documented immigrants in California visited state legislators' offices on Monday to challenge proposed state budget cuts that would eliminate ...

May 24, 2008 Via EMAILWIRE.COM The Latino Journal is now publishing and sharing articles and video on its new Blog which can be found at its website, www.latinojournal.net. "In addition to our publication, we ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The editorial page of the Sacramento Bee told readers Sunday to "vote for somebody other than Heather Fargo or Kevin Johnson in the June 3 primary." The Bee's editorial board said that ...

Like spring flowers, the 'For Sale' signs are sprouting in front yards all over the country. But anxious sellers are facing the most brutal environment in decades, with a slumping economy, falling home prices and rising mortgage foreclosures.

And even the faint promise of better days ahead might not come true, given all the headwinds the housing industry is facing at the moment.

'This is going to be another difficult spring,' said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com. 'I think we are at the beginning of the end of the housing downturn, but it is going to be a long and painful end.'

Wind was blamed for a series of power outages in the Central Valley on Thursday and firefighters were on high alert for possible grassfires.

San Carlos teachers and school district officials are headed to mediation after labor talks came to a screeching halt more than a month ago.

For her supply of fresh vegetables, Arlene Stagg goes to a plot where she can tend the land with like-minded residents of Le Sueur, Minn.

A British diver thought he and his American girlfriend would be eaten alive by sharks as they spent a night floating over Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Registration can be done outside the secretary of state's office in downtown Sacramento, at county elections offices, and online at the secretary of state's website.

A Sacramento man who videotaped himself engaging in sexually explicit conduct with an 8-year-old girl has been sentenced in federal court.

Jennifer Brash, whose husband Andrew summitted Mt. Everest today, celebrates with her daughter Anna, three, who holds a picture of him taken in Nepal a few weeks ago.

California Rep. Laura Richardson claimed Friday that her Sacramento, Calif., home was sold into foreclosure without her knowledge and contrary to an agreement with her lender.

She said she is like any other American suffering in the mortgage crisis and wants to testify to Congress about her experience as lawmakers craft a foreclosure-prevention bill.

In a lengthy interview Friday night with The Associated Press, the Southern California Democrat struck back against several days of negative publicity over reports she defaulted on her mortgage, allowing the house to be sold at auction.

The Sacramento Bee: "Reject both Proposition 98 and Proposition 99" It's back. Yet another initiative - Proposition 98 - is on the ballot masquerading as "eminent domain" reform and trying to scare people with ...

The city of Vallejo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday to deal with a ballooning budget deficit caused by soaring employee costs and declining tax revenue.

Business consultant Catherine Brinkman is the best choice for the Republican nomination in the race for the state Assembly's 19th district, a young candidate who could help to re-energize the local party and ...

SACRAMENTO - C alifornians seem willing to be talked into accepting a tax increase to help balance the books in Sacramento.

State regulators have fined a Sacramento psychiatric hospital after finding that a patient died because of poor care.

In an example of the lack of character that has permeated the Congress of the United States, California Congresswoman Laura Richardson, Democrat from California, has reportedly lost here home in Sacramento to ...

Former U.S. official's intervention assailed by investigators. By Michael Doyle - mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, May 22, 2008 Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A4 Gerald and ...

School officials say they expect to announce Thursday that Drexel will begin offering master's degree programs in Sacramento, Calif.

A Sacramento man has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $400,000 from a credit union where he worked.

The California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert for a missing 3-year-old boy taken from Sacramento on Wednesday.

Sacramento Business Journal - by Kathy Robertson Staff writer State health officials have levied a $25,000 administrative fine against a south Sacramento psychiatric hospital, the second in two months for ...

Reacting to a proposed move by the state Water Resources Control Board to revoke U.S. Bureau of Reclamation water rights on the American River connected to the long-stalled Auburn dam, U.S. Rep.

A California superdelegate, Sacramento lawyer Steven Ybarra, wants Bill Clinton or Barack Obama to pay $20 million for his vote for the Democratic nomination.

SOLVE California's budget crisis through a scam - sorry, scheme - involving the sorry state Lottery, already an embarrassment in its very existence, akin to government-sponsored cigarette- or drug-peddling? Sad ...

Lawmakers adopted the bill on a 45-23 vote with no debate. It now goes to the Senate.

Calif. prison settlement would avoid early inmate release - Associated Press By Don Thompson SACRAMENTO - California would avoid having to release thousands of state prison inmates early under a possible ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to use the lottery to help balance the state budget relies on rosy revenue projections that ultimately could complicate efforts to fund education, the state's ...

Sporting goods retailer REI plans to retrofit 11 of its stores with solar technology this year, a move that will include the company's Arcadia location.

IN 2006, CALIFORNIA began trying to protect some of our most vulnerable residents, those unable to care for themselves.

“The acquisition of Sigma by NEOGOV provides for the ongoing maintenance of the Sigma product by a team whose business is solely applicant tracking systems”

SACRAMENTO, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- CPS Human Resource Services announced today that it has sold the assets of its Sigma Data Systems division to NEOGOV, a leading provider of public sector applicant tracking ... via Digital Producer

“They are registering new voters in all these states”

The selections came during the state party's final meeting before the August convention in Denver. via SF Gate

The Democratic contest for state Assembly District 19 features three well-qualified candidates, but we give the edge to San Mateo County Supervisor Jerry Hill based on his broad-based political experience and ... via San Mateo Daily News

“Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California”

Some important dates in California's battle over same-sex marriage: - 1975: Gov. via The Modesto Bee

“This is terrible because the patients are not going to be less sick. The care will be delayed and the patients will go where they can be seen - and that's an emergency room.”

Dr. Robert Nicholson talks about pending changes in Medi-Cal coverage at his office in Oakland, Calif. via Inside Bay Area

The Associated Press Sunday, May 18, 2008; 5:13 AM HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam has deported an American man of Vietnamese origin who was sentenced to six months in jail on terrorism charges for planning to ... via The Washington Post

“We must insist that education be the top priority in California”

A few hundred teachers, school administrators and campus employees gathered Wednesday to demand that California lawmakers refuse proposed budget cuts to schools. via Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

“The question is whether we are willing to confront the public demand and desire for high quality in public services and match that demand with the money to pay for it. Every year that fundamental question gets avoided.”

Last Updated 4:05 pm PDT Wednesday, May 14, 2008 "The cold, hard truth that is we cannot continue to run our state like this, where there is no connection between our revenues and expenditures." - Gov. via Sacramento Bee Newspaper

“Budget: New course, or stay on road to ruin”

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a chance to change California's course significantly. Or, he can continue on the current disastrous path of more taxing, spending and borrowing in order to spend. via SF Gate

A spinning carnival ride collapsed at a fair near Sacramento, California, last night, injuring all 24 people on board. via Mochila

“You've got to be willing to fight. You've got to stand up and say I'm going to make life difficult for you here.”

Assemblyman Bob Huff and former Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy clashed over who is the "real conservative" and the best way to get things done in Sacramento at a forum staged Friday. via San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Three people attending the annual fair celebrating the popular Calaveras County jumping frog contest were seriously injured Friday during the collapse of a carnival ride.

Another 14 riders also were hurt, but their injuries were considered minor, said Dennis Townsend, a chief in the Calaveras County unit of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention.

The three most seriously injured riders were being airlifted to area hospitals, he said.

Townsend said they were injured when a type of swing ride collapsed shortly after 6 p.m. Friday. The ride has arms that fling out as they spin around an axis. Read more

“I don't know if these guys were looking for someone or are just ignorant.”

Three Sacramento men have been arrested after a beating that law enforcement officials describe as a hate crime against homosexuals, police said Friday.

The Thursday evening incident at a Sacramento gas station came just hours after the California Supreme Court issued a ruling overturning a state ban on same-sex marriages.

A 23-year-old Sacramento man was sitting with another man in a car near the station's restroom when the three suspects asked if he was a homosexual, Sacramento Police Officer Michelle Lazark said. Read more

“We instituted additional educational training for the station, and have taken appropriate disciplinary action, including termination of the individuals involved”

CBS fired the radio host and a radio station's program director over a racist song that was performed on the air in March. via WPVI-TV Philadelphia

“The company's lengthy experience as a Shell operator, coupled with its extensive knowledge of the retail fuel market in northern California, will help strengthen the Shell network in Sacramento.”

Sacramento Business Journal - by Celia Lamb Staff writer Shell Oil Products US has sold 20 Sacramento-area gas stations to a subsidiary of Fremont-Based Vintners Distributors Inc . via Sacramento Business Journal

“The voices were very loud and very clear. These parks are important”

The gates and doors of Benicia's two state parks, including the historic Capitol, will remain open, the governor revealed Wednesday. via Vallejo Times-Herald

An often asymptomatic condition - 'systolic dysfunction, or decreased pumping of the heart - 'poses an increased risk of death for patients on kidney transplant waiting lists, according to a study appearing in ... via Newswise

Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose borrowing against future state lottery revenue to help close a $15.2 billion budget deficit in the next fiscal year. via SFGate

“It's all such politics at this stage of the game.”

Modesto teachers abandoned barbecued chicken and tri-tip dinners for pickets at their annual celebration Wednesday marking the California Day of the Teacher. via The Modesto Bee

“The idea that we use the lottery to pay down debt is a good one”

SACRAMENTO _ Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday released a $144.3 billion state budget that eliminates a massive deficit by selling lottery bonds and cutting billions in state programs. via KCBS

Critical conditions have caused the National Weather Service in Sacramento to declare a red flag fire warning in effect now through noon Friday for much of Northern California. via The Union

“California's tax structure was put in place in the 1930s. The economy has completely changed.”

A controversial plan to save more than $1 billion by offering early release to 22,000 prison inmates will not be part of Governor Schwarzenegger's revised budget proposal.

The Sacramento Bee reports a drop in the state's inmate population has prompted the governor to abandon a plan few lawmakers had supported.

"We're in a crisis and how do we resolve the crisis right now? I don't know whether releasing inmates is the best way to do that," said new Assembly Speaker Karen Bass.

The plan would have allowed prisoners convicted of drug possession, car theft and other lesser offenses who had less than 20 months left on their sentences to be paroled. Read more

KAREN Bass, D-Los Angeles, took over as speaker Tuesday amid much fanfare about being the first African-American woman to lead the California Assembly - or any other legislative body in the nation's history. via Pasadena Star-News

“Long-term, we would be open to selling”

The head of the newspaper chain that has a 49.5 percent interest in The Seattle Times Co. via The Columbian

“The ways people satisfy human needs, it's really important. Not that they're going to do it -- not that their going to become prostitutes”

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Preparing to give a lecture at the University of the Pacific, Veronica Monet pulls out a small suitcase that has a leather whip inside and says, "I like to teach people how to have better ... via KMGH-TV Denver

“Springtime does draw animals humans and wildlife out into the sun”

When Carol Sutherland's 11-year-old son Kevin stepped out onto his porch on March 28, he never expected that a rattlesnake would be waiting to greet him. via Chico Enterprise-Record

The measure by Senator Dean Florez, D-Shafter, is a reaction to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger negotiating last year to put a casino in Barstow for tribes from San Diego and Humboldt counties. via SF Gate

Strippers and porn stars traveled to Sacramento on Monday for a hearing on adopting a tax increase on porn. via KNBC

A for sale sign advertises a reduced price in front of home for sale April 29, 2008 in Stockton, California. via ABC News

“If we could only harness the power of our common humanity, I don't think there's anything we couldn't do for the people of this state”

Assemblywoman Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, second from right, smiles as she is sworn in as Speaker of the California State Assembly by her predecessor, Assemblyman Fabian Nunez, of Los Angeles, left, as Gov. via Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

In his last news conference as Assembly speaker, Fabian Nez was true to form: He feigned favoring political reform while plotting against it. via The Reporter

“It obviously spans the country; it's just everyday folks who have their property and some outstanding debts ... and he's taking advantage of that”

Last Updated 3:38 pm PDT Monday, May 12, 2008 Jeff McCoon of Madera County was taken into custody in Sacramento Superior Court on Monday. via Sacramento Bee Newspaper