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  • Police Violent Struggle Preceded In Custody Death of Man

    Sacramento Police are investigating after a man died while in custody. SACRAMENTO-- Police say that a violent struggle preceded the in custody death of a man in front of a Metro PCS store along Folsom Boulevard Friday evening. As reported Friday, officers were called by a woman working at a Metro PCS store along Folsom Boulevard Friday evening who said there was a suspicious man inside with ...

  • Police Man Shot Dead Trying to Run from Robbers

    File Photo SACRAMENTO-- A man in his 50's is dead after being shot by suspects described to be in their teens, Sacramento Police say. Gunfire was reported near Lemon Hill Avenue and Burke Court around 11:09 p.m. Friday, according to a police press release. Officers who showed up at the scene found one man with a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the lower body. But, another man was ...

  • Man killed during robbery in Sacramento

    SACRAMENTO, CA - A man was killed, another injured, during an armed robbery in a south east Sacramento neighborhood Friday night. Sacramento police responded to 6100 block of Lemon Hill Avenue, near Stockton Boulevard, around 11:09 p.m. and found a man suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his lower body. Police said a short time later another shooting victim was found. The ...

  • Suspect Dies After Struggle With Sacramento Police Officers

    SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a suspect who died after what’s being described as a violent struggle with Sacramento police officers who were called to a retail store by a clerk who told a 911 dispatcher that she feared for her safety. Police say the trouble started around 6 p.m. Friday when the clerk at a Metro PCS store called 911 and said the man ...

  • Elderly woman goes missing after appointment

    SAN ANDREAS, CA - Deputies need help finding an elderly woman who has not been seen since Thursday morning. Fay Burford, 75, of Murphys, was reported missing on Friday. Calaveras County sheriff's Sgt. Chris Hewitt said Burford was last seen on Thursday at a 10 a.m. appointment in Walnut Creek. Burford was expected to go back to her Murphys home, but has not been seen or heard from since ...


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Ugetsu [DVD]

Ugetsu [DVD]

Although largely unknown in the Western world until the final years of his long career, Kenji Mizoguchi is nevertheless one of the great masters of Japanese cinema, a pioneering auteur whose humanist vision, rigid formalism, and tenacious attention to detail garnered the admiration of numerous ci ... ...

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  • 7 injured in Mo. train collision overpass collapse

    Seven people were injured early Saturday morning in southeastern Missouri after two freight trains collided, taking out a nearby overpass. A Union Pacific train t-boned a Burlington Northern train at an intersection, Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter told KFVS-TV. The collision caused one of the trains to derail and hit a pillar under the overpass, collapsing it. Two vehicles were on the ...

  • Woodland Parolee Injures Officers During Arrest

    File photo WOODLAND - Wooland Police officers were injured Friday night while attempting to make an arrest. Just before 11 p.m., officers got reports of a domestic disturbance at a house near West and Elliot Streets. When cops arrived, they confronted Howard Steven Wilbanks, 57, who had reportedly assaulted his girlfriend with a knife. When the cops tried to take him into custody he started ...

  • Davis Farmers Market known as food mecca

    The market is a big gathering spot in town, and not only does it bring tourism to Davis, but the city said it entices people to move there so they can have better access to farm fresh ...

  • Suburban Sacramento region schools improve API test scores

    Suburban schools in the Sacramento region are generally doing a better job of increasing student test scores than their urban counterparts, according to state data released Friday.The California Department of Education released base Academic Performance Index, or API, results for last school year. The API score represents a composite of test scores at schools and districts. The state ranks ...

  • Sacramento man makes light of earthquake gets chuckles and criticism

    Wine bottles and other goods spilled during the earthquake Thursday night at the Evergreen Market in Greenville, Plumas County.pic courtesy Evergreen ...

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