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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 ...

  • Video The End of the Maloof Era

    The majority owners of the Sacramento Kings, the Maloof family, announced their intent to sell the team. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and other city leaders are created a counteroffer to present to the NBA after a Seattle investor group made a bid for the team. The NBA officially announced on Jan. 21 that an ownership group in Seattle made a $525 million offer to buy the Kings, something that ...

  • Coroner 17 Bodies Removed from Modesto Funeral Business

    Dusty hearses sit behind McGuire Cremation and Funeral Service in Modesto. MODESTO- The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Coroner said Friday that 17 bodies were removed from a funeral and cremation business. The Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that McGuire Cremation and Funeral Service had been at the center of an investigation into ';potential criminal and civil ...

  • Calif. Attorney General Kamala Harris Meets With New Task Force On Guns

    California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks at a news conference on May 17, 2013 at the Los Angeles Civic Center in Los Angeles, California. Harris hosted a meeting of the state’s district attorneys to develop recommendations on reducing gun violence. (credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty ...


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Trust the Man [DVD]

Trust the Man [DVD]

There is such a delicate, fine line between romantic comedies in which couples realistically and understandably work through obstacles to find happiness in the end and romantic comedies in which couples act ridiculously and childishly before finding happiness in the end. Bart Freundlic ... ...

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  • Social Media Partially Responsible For Rise in Potentially Suicidal Students

    DAVIS (CBS13) -- A spike in potentially suicidal students in Davis schools has administrators working against social media peer pressure. According to the Davis Joint Unified School District, the number of students being screened for possible suicidal behavior rose from 52 two years ago to 94--an 81 percent increase. Psychotherapist Mark Foster says part of the increase has to do with the rise ...

  • Suspected Serial Flasher Putting Neighbors on Edge

    SACRAMENTO- Sacramento Police say they now have a sketch of the suspected serial flasher. Police also say the suspect's method of operation is linking him to several flashing incidents reaching as far back as December of 2011. The flasher is becoming more aggressive; exposing himself, touching his victims and running the other way, according to investigators. The most recent incident ...

  • Brandon Bikes to Work Days 12 13

    SACRAMENTO- May is Bike Month, and on a challenge from the FOX40 morning producers, I'm seeing if I can ride my bike to work all month. Days 12: When we say ';bike'; to work, the phrase ';hoped to bike'; would have been better. Today, Rain again. I realized, if I’m serious about this, I need mud guards. Our morning executive producer says at UC Davis, freshman ...

  • Folsom Inmates Raise Money for Cancer Research

    FOLSOM- The iron gates and barbed wire fences of Folsom Prison aren’t strong enough to keep cancer out. ';I actually got cancer and I am in remission,'; said Pesefeau Utu, an inmate at Folsom Prison. Uto got a rare type of blood cancer while behind bars. Many other inmates experienced cancer through a friend’s or family member’s struggle. ';I am just a strong ...

  • Trains collide in Connecticut dozens hurt

    Two Metro-North passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, damaging both trains and leaving dozens injured -- some of them seriously -- authorities ...

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