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  • Family faced troubles before slaying of girl 8

    SAN ANDREAS – Even before April 27, when 8-year-old Leila Fowler was fatally stabbed in her home near Valley Springs, the Fowler family had troubles.Leila's 12-year-old brother has been charged with murder in her death. He remains in a juvenile lockup, awaiting a May 29 court date at which he might enter a plea.Although the adults in the Fowler family have said little publicly, court ...

  • Huge tunnel collapse imperils Mendocino County Skunk Train

    The Skunk Train, which took its name from stinky stoves once used to heat passenger cars, began as a freight line and added passenger service in ...

  • New Kings boss Ranadive is all about winning

    Two young employees at Tibco Software Inc. recently challenged the head of the company to a pull-up contest, and Vivek Ranadive didn't hesitate to accept.The employees, men in their 30s, combined to gut out 12 pull-ups. Ranadive, who is 55, pumped out nearly twice as many."When he was done, he just hung up there for two minutes looking at them," said Roger Craig, the former San ...

  • Pay dirt for job seekers in weeding mowing

    Learning the landscape maintenance trade is not just a way out of homelessness for Michelle Van Dyke. "Working in soil is like cleaning up the wreck of my past," she said. "When I'm weeding, I go down to the root. All the way down to the root."For Tajuana Martin, training for an outdoor job trumps food service or desk work. And on one recent morning, Sophia Moreno donned ...

  • Event to kick off work on Rancho Cordova-area roads

    Sacramento County and Rancho Cordova officials will participate in a ceremony Monday launching a project to improve traffic circulation in the Mather Commerce Center area and Rancho Cordova.The project involves constructing a new section of roadway on Femoyer Street to fill a gap between International Drive and McCuen Boulevard; widening and improving an existing portion of Femoyer Street ...


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Just Like Heaven

Just Like Heaven

Chemistry is chemistry, and Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo have it in Just Like Heaven, a romantic fantasy about a man who falls in love with a womans disembodied spirit. Its played with a light touch and a good sense of humor, which have become hallmarks of director M ... ...

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  • Program at Mather aids former Sacramento County foster kids

    Once homeless, Willis Mucelroy, 20, lives in the Adolfo housing. He aims to complete a high-school equivalency program and to become a ranger at ...

  • The Public Eye Expert notes CPS missteps before Sacramento child hatchet murder

    Three weeks before he allegedly murdered his 9-year-old son with a hatchet, Phillip Raymond Hernandez was the subject of a complaint to Sacramento County Child Protective Services alleging that he neglected his two boys.In the course of its investigation, CPS learned that Hernandez had served time in prison for domestic abuse and he abused methamphetamine and marijuana.The agency came up with a ...

  • Marcos Breton Kings win shows anythings possible in Sacramento

    A few weeks ago, I was covering baseball in San Francisco when a writer from another state accosted me with an emphatic declaration: "You've lost the Sacramento Kings," he boomed. "You're fantasizing if you think otherwise."When I countered that a legitimate group of people was bidding big to keep the team in town, my friend practically spit."There is no way ...

  • Guardian Angels Helping in Hunt for Murder Suspects

    and P streets. Saturday, the Sacramento chapter of the Guardian Angels were out to protect others from what happened to Josiah - by trying to find the three men responsible for his death. "We are out here, hoping someone will remember something they may have heard," said Patrick Kent with the Guardian Angels. And there's new information in the case police released last month. ...

  • $600 Million Winning Powerball Numbers Announced

    DES MOINES, Iowa (CBS/AP) -- The winning numbers in Saturday night's near record-setting Powerball drawing were 22, 10, 13, 14, 52 and Powerball 11. Officials said the latest Powerball jackpot figure results are still pending. They had estimated it at $600 million. Saturday night's jackpot was believed to be the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second ...

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