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  • Tornadoes wallop several states 2 killed

    The death toll now stands at two after tornadoes swept through Oklahoma on Sunday, the state medical examiner's office said Monday. Both victims were elderly men from ...

  • Suspects accidentally dial 911 during alleged car theft

    FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Two suspects arrested for breaking into a car in Central California accidentally called 911 on a cellphone, which led police to them. A dispatcher was able to hear a rambling 35-minute conversation between the men as they discussed buying drugs and what implements to use to break into vehicles in Fresno. The dispatcher listened in as the suspects smashed a car's ...

  • Firefighter Trapped Killed in 6-Alarm Blaze

    A firefighter became trapped and lost his life while battling this large fire in Dallas, Texas.Courtesy: CNN DALLAS (CNN)- The body of a firefighter trapped inside a burning condominium complex in Dallas was removed from the rubble early Monday morning. Firefighters initiated a search for the responder at the complex in northeast Dallas after he radioed that he was trapped, according to CBS11 ...

  • Sacto 911 Suspected Carmichael pharmacy robber recovers enough to be booked

    A man shot last week when he allegedly attempted to rob a Carmichael pharmacy at gunpoint has been cleared to be booked into Sacramento County Jail. Zechariah Abraham Scholes, 36, had been in the hospital since he was shot on Tuesday by a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy. His condition had improved enough so that on Sunday he was booked into jail on suspicion of kidnapping and robbery. ...

  • Is it too early to talk naming rights for new arena

    It's too early to know if Sleep Train would be a contender for the naming rights on the new downtown arena, but the cost for such a deal would be significantly larger than the undisclosed amount that the mattress chain paid for its name to go atop the outdated arena. Thrilled is how The Sleep Train Inc. founder Dale Carlsen described his reaction to the news that the Sacramento Kings will ...


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Primer [DVD]

Primer [DVD]

The engineering trickery and ingenious work of the two after-hours inventors in Shane Carruth's low-key sci-fi mindbender Primer aptly reflects its writer/director/star's own cinematic cleverness. Using scant resources and a miniscule budget, Carruth has gotten the most bang for his buck by c ... ...

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  • Yahoo makes Tumblr deal official Video

    May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Industries U.S. director of research Paul Sweeney examines Yahoo's $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr and how it can monetize and grow the acquisition while retaining its "cool factor" with users. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance." Yahoo confirmed that it will pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr on Monday in a nearly all-cash ...

  • Giving downtown new life with development

    A revitalization project on the 700 block of K Street is months away. Developer Bay Miry of D&S Development says he's expecting plenty more to keep him busy in the next few years, as interest in downtown is expected to skyrocket with a new arena in the works. As he and partners in CFY Development are months away from another revitalization project on the 700 block of K Street, Bay Miry of ...

  • Sac History Happenings Railroad musuems offer special Memorial weekend activities

    Memorial Day is coming up, and that means big doings at the rail museums in Old Sacramento and Jamestown in Tuolumne County. To help celebrate ...

  • Temperatures to cool do throughout the week

    Look for close to a 20-degree drop in temperatures between today and Thursday.High pressure is expected to produce maximum temperatures in the low 90s today in the Sacramento region. Breezy and warm weather will be the order of the day until conditions begin to change on Tuesday with an upper level low moving into the Pacific Northwest.The changing conditions will moderate temperatures, dropping ...

  • Exposures I Care Teen helps recovering victims of the sex trade

    Sixteen-year-old Jordyn Jones barely breaks a sweat as she works in the garden with residents of Courage House, a home for young victims of sex trafficking supported by the Christian-based nonprofit Courage Worldwide. The girls joke around and Jordyn fits right in, but her life couldn't be more separate. Many of the girls living there are runaways from abusive families. Jones comes from a ...

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