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  • Cathie Anderson Fungus killing coffee plantations in Mexico Central America

    Coffee lovers probably won't hear much about la roya in the United States, but this fungal disease is decimating thousands of coffee farms across Mexico and Central America.Pete Rogers isn't the average American coffee lover. He travels to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and other exotic locales to find and purchase green coffee beans for his family's company, Rogers ...

  • Defense attorney denies anti-gay hate crime in Davis beating

    The defense attorney for accused hate attacker Clayton Garzon asserted Monday that the March beating of another Davis man was not fueled by anti-gay sentiment.Garzon, 20, faces three felony assault charges and hate crime allegations connected to the beating of Lawrence "Mikey" Partida early March 10 near Third and I streets in Davis. The attack occurred outside a birthday party for ...

  • Parking fees increase at regional parks

    Parking fees at Sacramento County regional parks go up this Memorial Day weekend.The fees increase to $8 for most vehicles and $13 for oversized vehicles and those towing watercraft at all county parks. The fees increase to cover county costs for ranger patrol and maintenance during the Saturday through Monday ...

  • Tanning salon chain opens capital outlet

    California Sun, the Roseville-based tanning salon chain operating more than 20 outlets in Northern California and Nevada, has opened a new salon in Sacramento.The salon is in the Promenade shopping center at 7485 Rush River Drive, just southwest of the intersection of Interstate 5 and Florin Road.California Sun opened its first salon in 1993 in Placer ...

  • Solar Power Inc. warns it could go out of business

    The light continues to fade at Solar Power Inc.Reporting another quarterly loss Monday, the Roseville solar-energy developer said it has burned through much of its cash and again warned shareholders it's in danger of going out of business.Solar Power is a victim of an industrywide bust in the solar business, caused largely by massive overproduction on the part of Chinese solar-panel ...


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Movie Review

Along Came a Spider

In Along Came a Spider, Morgan Freeman reprises his role as Washington, DC forensic psychologist and police detective Dr. Alex Cross, the hero of five mystery novels by James Patterson. Freeman also played the role in 1997's Kiss the Girls, although Spider is based on the novel that introduced Cross's character. It is interesting and a bit disappointing in that respect that m ... ...

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  • Sacramento area rated high for women

    The Sacramento area and other Northern California communities are among the nation's best for women in the workforce, according to research by consumer finance site NerdWallet.com in San Francisco.Weighing multiple variables – including overall pay, salaries vs. male workers and area population – NerdWallet ranked the Sacramento-Arden Arcade-Roseville region 10th nationwide among large ...

  • State gas price stable as U.S. cost goes up

    In a rare reversal of a long-standing trend, gas prices in the Sacramento area and throughout California remained stable last week while the rest of the nation saw a significant increase.The average retail price of gasoline in the area rose about a penny over the past week to $3.97 a gallon, according to national price tracker GasBuddy.com, which surveys 720 stations in the area.Statewide, ...

  • Holiday weekend has a parkway booze ban

    Sacramento County officials remind the public not to consume alcohol on the American River Parkway this Memorial Day weekend.Alcohol consumption will be illegal on the parkway Saturday through Monday. County officials promise to enforce the ordinance that allows the county to temporarily ban alcohol consumption. Violators may be cited or arrested.Open containers will not be allowed anywhere on ...

  • Okla. Medical examiner expecting more bodies

    The vicious tornado that tore across central Oklahoma on Monday has killed at least 51 people -- with about 40 more bodies expected to arrive at the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office, Amy Elliott of the coroner's office said. The official death toll will gradually rise as the bodies are ...

  • History Repeated Itself in Oklahoma Twister

    SACRAMENTO - By some accounts, the tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma on Monday was two miles wide. To put that into perspective, that is almost the diameter of downtown Sacramento between Interstate 5 and Business 80. The path of the Oklahoma twister was very similar to the track of another destructive tornado that rolled through that same area 14 years ago. The 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore ...

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