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  • Indian American Vivek Ranadive buys US basketball team

    Indian American software magnate Vivek Ranadive, who has become the first person of Indian descent to become the owner of a major US basketball team, plans to build the Sacramento Kings into a global brand. "It's going to be exciting," he told the USA Today after securing an agreement to buy 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family for a National Basketball Association (NBA) ...

  • Indian-headed group buys Sacramento Kings NBA team

    A day after NBA owners rejected Sacramento Kings' move to Seattle, the Maloof brothers, owners of the franchise, have agreed to sell the basketball side to a Sacramento-based group headed by Indian Vivek Ranadive. Ranadive, who is a software billionaire, will purchase 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family in a deal that is expected to be announced later Friday, reports ESPN. The 65 ...

  • Pelosi implores UC Davis law graduates to embrace justice public service

    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, exhorts the UC Davis law school graduates to "make that legacy of Martin Luther King your own." The ceremony Friday was held in the Mondavi Center on the UCD ...

  • Man arrested in kidnapping of girl from Sacramento street is registered sex offender

    A man previously convicted of sex offenses has been arrested in connection with the midday abduction of a 7-year-old girl on a south Sacramento street nearly a week ago.Cedric Lain Holland, 25, was booked into the Sacramento County jail Thursday night on suspicion of kidnapping to commit another crime and violation of parole.He was taken into custody at his home on Sixth Avenue in Sacramento, ...

  • Court backs Redding paper in privacy suit

    California newspapers have a legal right to publish the names of children who are subjected to abuse if a name is newsworthy, a Sacramento appellate court ruled Friday.Relying heavily on a 1998 California Supreme Court decision, a three-justice panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal said that "publication of truthful, lawfully obtained material of legitimate public concern is ...


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Dark Water

Dark Water

Those approaching Dark Water as a straight horror movie are bound to be disappointed. The ad campaign has emphasized the films association with the Japanese horror hit Ringu (1997) and its 2001 American remake (they were both based on a source novel by Kji Suzuki), but Dark ... ...

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  • Sheriffs officials testify Aquitania went to buy gun before double-fatal shooting

    Sean Aquitania, 21, was killed Sept. 14, 2007, as he visited a friend's house. His 7-month-old son Sean Jr. was fatally shot while buckled into a car ...

  • Alleged homeless hit man acquitted in womans killing

    The attorney for Teng Thao said the jury decided there "just wasn't the evidence" to convict his client in the killing of a woman outside a gambling den in January ...

  • Valley High scholar wins auto-giveaway contest

    Joua Lee, who won $20,000 on Friday toward the purchase of a car, is eager to buy, but first things first:"I have to get my driver's license," said the lucky Valley High School senior.Each year, dealers at the Elk Grove Auto Mall give a car to a deserving student. Ten finalists with regular school attendance and qualifying grade-point averages from Elk Grove Unified School ...

  • Sierra Vista Bank gets capital infusion

    Folsom-based Sierra Vista Bank says it has received more than $1.5 million in new capital funding from the Taylor International Fund Ltd.The new funding is in addition to more than $2 million raised in a public offering by the bank in last year's third quarter."The additional capital will allow our financial organization to expand its customer base and seek new growth opportunities in ...

  • Hospitals cancel elective surgeries ahead of strike

    Sacramento's UC Davis Medical Center and four other large University of California hospitals have begun canceling elective surgeries because of a two-day strike planned by some workers next week.UCDMC has postponed 48 elective surgeries – including some for major cancers – and rescheduled 519 radiological examinations, a spokesman said.On an average day, 65 elective surgeries take place ...

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