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  • Gas price rollercoaster keeps on rolling

    ELK GROVE, Calif. - It has been a rollercoaster year for gas prices and it looks like that rollercoaster ride is going to continue. Gas prices are back up again across the nation, including places like Elk Grove, where it's $4.07 per gallon at the Shell station at Elk Grove Boulevard and Florin Road. The highest you'll see in Sacramento is about $3.89 per gallon. It seems that ...

  • How trustworthy are SPF ratings

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Sunbathers this summer will find new sunscreen labels that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially dangerous, a consumer watchdog group says. A survey of 1,400 sunscreen products by the Environmental Working ...

  • Oscars Very Mexican Food getting ready to re-open Sacramento location

    Oscar's Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. Oscars Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. The restaurant closed its Sacramento location in November as it did a complete renovation of the small stand into a restaurant. During the renovation, the kitchen crew has ...

  • ViVita Technologies wins UC Davis contest with plan for heart valve replacement

    ViVita Technologies has a new approach to heart valve replacement, which nascent company says is less likely to rejected by the immune system. ViVita Technologies won the 13th annual Big Bang! Business Plan Competition at the University of California Davis Graduate School of Management. The ViVita team won both the $10,000 first place prize and also won the $2,000 Peoples Choice award at the ...

  • Tornadoes slam several states 300 homes hit

    But the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...


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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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  • Today’s Daily Deal is from Walmart

    Today’s deal we found at Walmart. There’s a coupon for $1 off any two packages of Dixie Napkins. This offer starts Sunday. For more ...

  • Tornadoes pummel several states and kill 1

    But the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...

  • Elk Grove Couple Turns Home Into Successful Wedding Venue

    ELK GROVE (CBS13) – Owners of a private oasis tucked away in Elk Grove are getting ready for a busy summer. That’s because they’ll be hosting a whole lot of parties in their own backyard. Thirty-six years ago, Vicki and Rich Walker would have never imagined their three-acre home would be transformed into sprawling Wisteria Gardens. "All of this has grown. I can't ...

  • 10-year-old North Highlands girl gunned down watching TV with family

    A 10-year-old girl was shot to death Saturday night while watching TV in the living room of her North Highlands home, Sacramento county sheriff's investigators said Sunday. The barrage of bullets that penetrated the house from outside also wounded the girl's father and mother.On Sunday morning, a cluster of four bullet holes marked the front window of the home on Channing Way, ...

  • Water line break affects Rio Cosumnes inmates

    A burst water line was discovered on the grounds of the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove on Saturday, affecting a few hundred inmates being held in some of the facility's housing units."The problem is being worked on, and we hope to have it fixed by Monday," said Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Jason Ramos. "It's been more of an ...

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