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Motorcycle Crash Stops Light Rail Service in North Sacramento

Scene of the crash Wednesday evening. SACRAMENTO-- Witnesses said the motorcyclist had no time to stop when a Toyota SUV abruptly pulled out in front of him. "He's just cruising along I heard a bang. I seen him flew up top over the lady's car," said one witness, Jeff Vega. Around 7 p.m. Wednesday, the cyclist was heading down Del Paso Boulevard when the SUV darted out ...
Crime info sharing program aims to help several police departments

A program designed to help local law enforcement agencies in the region deal with parolees from the state's prison realignment plan has been ...
Enterprise zones a hot topic as Calif. mayors meet with governor

The tax breaks come from tax vouchers through California's Enterprise Zone program, which has been around for more than 25 years with the goal of stimulating the ...
Man’s Book on ‘Getting Awesome with Women’ Hit by Critics as Guide for Rapists

Ken Hoinsky is trying to raise funds through Kickstarter to publish this book. (CNN) — One man’s fund-raising efforts to publish a book on ';getting awesome with women'; raked in thousands of dollars, but also allegations that it is a guide to sexual assault. Ken Hoinsky describes his book as a self-help book for men seeking advice on interacting with the opposite sex. ...
Davis Teen Pleads Not Guilty to Double Murder Charges

WOODLAND– A ';not guilty'; plea from attorneys representing the 16-year-old accused of killing a Davis couple in their home. From hero kid to handcuffed teen, facing charges as an adult. "I saw him a few times walking around school with his girlfriend. He usually kept to himself," said Dana Wilk, a schoolmate of Daniel Marsh. Surrounded today by four guards, and ...

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Fiend Without a Face [DVD]

Fiend Without a Face is considered by many to be the best movie of the brief, five-year outpouring of science-fiction/horror hybrids in Great Britain in the late 1950s. Although shot on a tight budget, Fiend is a well-crafted and generally suspenseful genre flick that has held up surprisingly well, despite its sometimes dated dialogue and reliance on Cold War-era paranoia and fe ... ...

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Cops Teen rams BMW SUV through garage into Woodland home

An 18-year-old behind the wheel of a BMW SUV rammed it through a garage door and into a parked car, which pushed the vehicle through the wall of a Woodland house, police said ...
Former child hero pleads not guilty to Davis couples murder

WOODLAND, CA - A teen accused of killing a Davis couple in their home two months ago was in Yolo County Superior Court Wednesday for his arraignment. Daniel William Marsh, 16, pled not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances. The criminal complaint alleges that Marsh "inflicted torture" on the ...
Mom of woman found dead in Sacramento park pleas for help

SACRAMENTO, CA - The mother of a murdered 19-year-old is begging for help, urging anyone with information to contact Sacramento homicide detectives. Lashawn Peters was found dead in Meadowview Park Saturday morning. Other than being shot, police haven't been able to say much about how Peters was ...
Pay raise given to governor state lawmakers

Five days after approving a new state budget and six years after their last pay raise, California's 120 legislators are getting a bump up in their paychecks. So, too, is Gov. Jerry Brown and all of the state's constitutional officers. The citizens panel tasked with setting those salaries on Wednesday approved a roughly five percent increase, erasing a 2012 decision to cut lawmaker ...
Sacramento neighbors sue city over brewery odor

SACRAMENTO, CA - Neighbors of a proposed microbrewery in midtown Sacramento say the planning commission didn't adequately consider the odor of beermaking before approving the project. A group calling itself Citizens Against Alcohol Manufacturing in Midtown has filed a lawsuit claiming an environmental impact review is required by state law. The planning commission approved the Mill Supply ...

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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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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. ...