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  • Nevada County school gets EPA grant to clean up toxic site at future campus

    The Yuba River Charter School stresses love of the arts and the outdoors in a "whole child" learning program "to serve the whole world."Yet when administrators and parents for the unique Nevada County school went looking for pastoral locations for a new campus, they ran into a world of abandoned mines and toxic contamination from the region's gold mining era."Some ...

  • Dead sheep found floating in Sacramento County slough

    People were able to see the sheep from Highway 160 in Sacramento County near the Antioch Bridge. They said they had no idea how the sheep ended up in the ...

  • Texas beating California in the battle for jobs

    California and Texas are locked in a battle over business. But when it comes to creating new jobs, Texas is the national leader, while the Golden State comes in ...

  • Detectives N. Highlands shooters knew they were killing a child

    NORTH HIGHLANDS, CA - Sheriff's detectives released new details about a gang-related shooting that killed a 10-year-old girl. Elvira Campos died Saturday when two gunmen came to her North Highlands home. Family members showed up early Monday morning to clean the blood off the walkway in front of the Campos home and to cover the front window full of bullet holes. The girl died when ...

  • Monster Oklahoma tornado kills 51

    A massive, mile-wide tornado with winds up to 200 mph spent 40 minutes on the ground as it devastated homes, schools and businesses across southern Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday afternoon. The state medical examiner confirmed at least 51 deaths and said the toll was expected to ...


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Movie Review

Holes

Holes

Holes is definitely not your typical Disney family movie. Set in a work camp for convicted juveniles in the middle of a dry lakebed in the desolation of deep West Texas, it is visually striking, with the harsh images on screen matched by a surprisingly genuine depiction of troubled youth. Granted, in the end all the juvenile delinquents turn out to be generally good kids at heart, but the ... ...

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  • Stockton arrest witness claims police brutality

    STOCKTON, CA - When Stockton police arrested a man Sunday outside a Carrows restaurant on March Lane, a witness couldn't believe the violence she saw. "It was brutal. Absolutely brutal. I could hear the punching on this man's head. When he stood u,p he was a bloody mess," said the woman who would only give a first name of Jane. Stockton spokesman Officer Joe Silva said the ...

  • Beating the System Saving on Gas

    SACRAMENTO-- For once, it's good to live in California when it comes to gas prices. That's because they're going up much slower than the rest of the county. Nationwide, the average rose 8 cents in a week, according to AAA. In California, it rose just 1 cent in the last week - and local prices dropped since Sunday. It's now $3.97 a gallon on average in Modesto and Stockton. ...

  • Independent Sacramento-based Publisher to produce horror anthology

    There is a new independent publisher in town calling themselves Vile Press. Their main goal is to seek out the current unknown Sacramento writers in the area to accept and distribute their ...

  • Immigration reform fight heats up

    The debate over immigration reform is heating up in California, where scores of immigrants, many of whom are undocumented, rallied Monday at the state Capitol, demanding more ...

  • Does current sex-ed curriculum go far enough

    Material presented to students in sex education classes around the state this year tells them that condoms are 86 to 100 percent effective in preventing HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, but does not say condoms won't prevent disease transmitted by skin-to-skin ...

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