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Teen once lauded as hero is charged in Davis double-homicide case

Police tape limits access April 15 to the home in Davis where Oliver Northup and his wife, Claudia Maupin, were found fatally stabbed. Davis police received assistance from the FBI, the state and other jurisdictions in the ...
Sacramento gains 200 new jobs in mortgage industry

Sacramento is getting 200 new jobs in the mortgage industry, sopping up some of the talent left over from the housing crash.PennyMac Loan Services of Moorpark, in Ventura County, has already hired 40 workers and will ramp up to a total of 200 jobs eventually, the company said Tuesday. Its decision to come to the region was announced by SACTO, the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade ...
Blue Diamond opens first phase of major plant in Turlock

Blue Diamond officials hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the plant, whose first phase will employ 100 workers directly related to ...
Flood plan would pile tons of rocks at Brannon Island park

A fisherman tries his luck Tuesday across from Brannan Island, one strategic point in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta where state officials plan to store large piles of rock and sand to use in case of a flood to bolster weakened ...
Proposal on big-box stores heads to Sacramento City Council for debate

So-called big box stores such as Wal-Mart - this one in West Sacramento - could get into the Sacramento market if city leaders repeal restrictions on those ...

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Talk to Her (Hable con ella)

For more than a decade, Spanish writer/director Pedro Almodvar has specialized in making the bizarre poignant, and in Talk to Her (Hable con ella), he has developed his most richly satisfying and deeply felt work without sacrificing the unique edge that makes it impossible not to talk about his films afterwards. Romance in the cinema is all too often routine, predictable; Almodvars ... ...

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Sutter Health network rolls out HMO plan

The Sacramento-based Sutter Health network of doctors and hospitals has named its new HMO health plan Sutter Health Plus.Initially, Sutter Health Plus will offer a range of HMO plans to individuals and small and midsize employers in the greater Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley regions. Sutter plans to hold open enrollment this fall, with coverage to begin Jan. 1.Sutter Health doctors and ...
Rancho Cordova extends contract with Sheriffs Department for 3 years

Rancho Cordova will contract with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department for law enforcement services for at least three more years while continuing to evaluate other options for police services.The City Council decided Monday night to extend its agreement for services by the Sheriff's Department until June 30, 2016.Sheriff Scott Jones earlier this year initiated discussions about ...
Solar firm opens center in Sacramento

Petaluma-based SPG Solar, a provider of utility and commercial solar power products and services, has opened its Technology and Training Center in Sacramento's Depot Park.The center will be used primarily to train construction crews, engineers and designers to assemble and install SPG Solar's SunSeeker single-axis tracker.That system "follows the sun" throughout the course of ...
Girl tells jury she was tortured by her fathers fiancee while he was in prison

The torture happened upstairs, downstairs, on the stairs themselves, all over the house, the girl said. Hot spatulas slapped on the palms of her hands, a hot iron pierced into her back. She was kicked in the abdomen and head, had her ear pierced with a stapler, was smashed across the back with a frying pan and thrown down the stairs, she testified. But the girl returned time and again in her ...
Sacramento County health officials investigate Hepatitis A outbreak

Sacramento County health authorities are investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A that may be associated with a frozen berry blend sold at Costco.A total of 106 cases have been reported in eight states, including California. Of those reported cases, two have been identified in Sacramento County.County authorities are recommending that if Costco customers have Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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THE WESTIN, LOS ANGELES AIRPORT

This substantial hotel is easily accessed on Century Boulevarde. Driving in to the entrance area, the hotel main lobby greets ...

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US immigration bill clears key senate hurdle

As a major immigration bill that would give over 11 million people, including some 260,000 Indians, living illegally in America a path to citizenship, it received a full endorsement from President Barack Obama.

"If you're serious about actually fixing the system, then this is the vehicle to do it," he said Tuesday at the White House, flanked by immigration reform supporters, hours before a strong Senate majority voted to open debate on it.

"If you're not serious about it, if you think that a broken system is the best America can do, then I guess it might make sense to try to block it," he said referring to the bill drafted by a bipartisan "gang of eight", four Democrats and four Republicans.

"But if you're actually serious and sincere about fixing a broken immigration system, this is the vehicle to do it," he said flanked among others by young undocumented students and the US Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, Tom Donohue.

"This bill isn't perfect, it's a compromise," Obama said. "And going forward, nobody is going to get everything they want. Not Democrats, not Republicans, not me. But this is a bill that's largely consistent with the principles that I and the people on this stage have laid out for common-sense reform. ...