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Replica of Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall comes to Fair Oaks

Vietnam veteran George Martin of Fair Oaks looks over at names on the panels of the traveling Vietnam memorial on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.Martin, 64, was an enlisted Marine who served three tours in Vietnam. He was one of many motorcycle riders who escorted the monument from Dixon along Interstate 80.The Traveling Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall arrived at Mount Vernon Memorial Park in Fair Oaks ...
Sac Convention Center considers major expansion

A few blocks away, the Sacramento Convention Center is considering a major expansion that would add a third floor to the facility and help it better compete with its ...
Sac Co driver killed in freak accident impaled by metal rod

The California Highway Patrol is looking for witnesses, as it investigates the death of a man who was impaled by a metal rod while driving on Interstate 580 around ...
Man gets 3 years for loaded guns inside Sac airport

A federal judge sentenced a Montana man to three years in prison on Wednesday for attempting to board a flight in Sacramento, Calif., with four loaded ...
Police Armed woman barricaded inside Sacramento home

Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 gruesome triple homicide outside Boston along with a Chechen killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, ...

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The Cat O' Nine Tails (Il gatto a nove code) [Blu-Ray]

After the international success of his directorial debut, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1969), director Dario Argento returned to mine similar territory with his second effort, The Cat O Nine Tails (Il gatto a nove code), which stylishly evokes the It ... ...

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Armed Woman Surrenders to Police

File Photo SACRAMENTO- The woman who had barricaded herself into her home Wednesday afternoon in south Sacramento peacefully surrendered to police, officers say. She was arrested for firing her gun inside the home, off Center Parkway near Mack Road. The woman’s husband reportedly called police, concerned for her well-being. Officers were in a standoff with the woman for nearly three ...
Doctor Testifies Teaching Yoga is a Conspiracy

SAN DIEGO- Teaching yoga in public schools has come under fire in Encinitas and now a judge must decide whether or not yoga is a religion. A lawsuit was filed by the National Center for Law and Policy on behalf of Stephen and Jennifer Sedlock, whose children attend one of the district's nine schools, contends that Ashtanga yoga is religious in nature and that opting out costs students ...
2013 Sacramento Music Festival gets ready for the crowds

Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee began on its long journey of entertaining thousands annually with traditional jazz. Musicians have been booked from all over the world in order to present attendees with the best jazz available. Since that time, the festival has undergone two name changes and is now hailed as ...
California community colleges add summer classes

Getting needed classes could be getting easier than in recent years at community colleges, such as Sierra College, where students waited in line to register, as some schools expands class offerings, especially in high-demand subjects such as math, English and ...
State proposes to cut MediCal reimbursements

Smilanich said his own advanced age has him hoping that Jane's condition will improve enough that she could be admitted to a group home or assisted-living facility someday, but his family is among thousands across California who say they are unsure about the future of their care because of a state proposal to cut MediCal reimbursements to facilities such as Bruceville ...

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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) league-record valuation of $535 million.

"We're going to build a global brand with the Kings. We're going to give the fans the product that they deserve," the minority owner of Golden State Warriors said on achieving his longtime goal.

The development came just a day after NBA owners officially rejected a bid by the Maloofs, who have owned the team since 1998, to relocate the Kings from Sacramento, California, to Seattle, Washington.

"It's a little bittersweet, obviously because I'm a huge Warriors fan and I have a lot of friends here," Ranadive told USA Today Sports. "I'm very, very excited to start the new (challenge)."

Ranadive, who left India as a 17-year-old to attend MIT and later founded his $4 billion company in Silicon Valley, Tibco, has the sort of competitiveness and deep pockets that could lead one of the league's most poorly run franchises back to respectability, the USA Today said." ...