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  • 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 ...

  • Dry winter makes spring look like summer in Northern California streams

    It may feel like spring in California, but this Memorial Day weekend, many rivers and creeks look like they're already trickling through summer.Rafters and kayakers headed outdoors this weekend will find no room to float their boats on some waterways. Snowmelt runoff peaked a month early in some watersheds, leaving some of their streams too low for holiday water play.The north fork of the ...

  • Tall tale of stuffed 14-foot-tall giraffe to end in Arizona

    Eric Nelson, whose Rio Oso home provided the site where the 14-foot-tall giraffe was stuffed, loads the animal into a truck as taxidermist Grady Miller provides ...

  • Charities strain to compete for race runners

    Whatever your cause, there's probably a charity race out there for you.Nonprofits today are working harder than ever to earn your charity dollars. But with competition fierce, even the most prominent foundations are struggling to fill their rosters. Sacramento's Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure – part of what is arguably the nation's most popular fundraiser for breast cancer ...


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There Will Be Blood [Blu-Ray]

There Will Be Blood [Blu-Ray]

For the first 15 minutes of Paul Thomas Andersons There Will Be Blood, not a word is spoken. We are brought into the film with a slowly dawning shot of three hilltops that emerges along with a dissonant roar of music by Radioheads Jonny Greenwood, which is then immedi ... ...

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  • CSUS prods students to graduate more quickly

    Sacramento State will graduate 4,600 students in ceremonies ending today – 837 more than last spring.A rebounding job market could be the reason more students are graduating, or skyrocketing tuition, but it also could be the CSU Graduation Initiative put in place in 2010.The initiative was designed to combat low graduation rates within the California State University system, where only 15 ...

  • Recovered body may be driver of auto in river

    Sacramento police and fire crews recovered a body Friday evening from the Sacramento River near Riverside Boulevard.Sacramento Police Sgt. Andrew Pettit said the body is that of a male and may be the driver of a vehicle that went into the river at Sutterville Road and Riverside Boulevard, near Interstate 5, late Tuesday.Pettit said officers responded to a report of a vehicle accident at 11:48 ...

  • Krispy Kreme hiring 30 for West Sac store

    Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is hiring 30 people as it prepares to open a new store at 768 Ikea Court in West Sacramento.In order to get a one-on-one interview, applicants must attend a Krispy Kreme job fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, June 3 at the Quality Inn at 3796 Northgate Blvd. in Sacramento.Krispy Kreme, headquartered in Winston-Salem, N.C., has more than 700 locations around the world. ...

  • Battle Hill Media opens new offices in capital

    Battle Hill Media, formed in 2010 by Sacramento businessman and longtime "Car Czar" TV and radio show host Doug Brauner, has opened new offices in Sacramento's River Park neighborhood.Battle Hill operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of The Car Czar Inc.Battle Hill recently announced an agreement to produce a third season of "The Car Czar Show" for CBS Corp.-owned ...

  • Signatures certified recall election may proceed

    Lassen County Clerk Julie Bustamante announced Friday that petitioners seeking to oust Lassen Supervisor Jack Hanson from office have collected enough valid signatures to allow a recall election to proceed.Bustamante's certification of sufficient signatures sets the stage for a special election in a controversial campaign that was launched more than two years ago and involved a court ...

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