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  • 91-year-old Stanislaus County man reported missing

    STANISLAUS COUNTY, Calif. - The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department is seeking the public's assistance locating a 91-year-old Modesto man. Amos Earl McElvaine was last seen by his family on Tuesday, May 14, at 5 a.m., said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Anthony Bejaran. McElvaine is described as a black man, 5'5" tall, weighing approximately 225 pounds, with brown eyes ...

  • Massive Tornado Hits Near Oklahoma City

    SHAWNEE, Oklahoma (CNN) — A tornado was on the ground near Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, moving toward populated areas. The National Weather Service issued a rare tornado emergency for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, meaning that significant and widespread damage and fatalities are likely. Video from CNN affiliates showed a funnel cloud stretching from the sky to the ground, ...

  • Tornado tears through Oklahoma City suburbs

    "The motion on this storm is sickening," says a storm chaser The tornado is estimated to be at least two miles wide 2 people are confirmed dead after a tornado tears through Shawnee, Oklahoma "500,000 square miles under the gun for severe weather," a meteorologist ...

  • Slain 10-year-old girls family calls out gunmen

    Sacramento County Sheriff's investigators said that two gunmen ran up to a home on Channing Drive on Saturday night and fired more than a dozen gunshots through the front window and door of a house where Elvira Campos, 10, and her parents were watching ...

  • SSA Pacific Signs Lease at Port of West Sacramento

    has approved a new lease for its West Sacramento maritime facilities with SSA Pacific.The lease, which takes effect July 1, 2013, replaces an existing Terminal Operations Management Agreement with SSA. The deal provides guaranteed rent payments to the Port of West Sacramento and shifts all maritime-related operational expenses to SSA, enabling the port to reduce administrative costs and focus on ...


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Grass [DVD]

As everyone knows, marijuana gets you high. But, according to Ron Mann's documentary Grass, its unfortunate legacy in the United States is the billions of dollars spent and thousands of otherwise innocent people incarcerated due to the ever-changing rhetoric employed by overprotective zealots hell-bent on maintaining the illusion that smoking it is ... well, that's the problem. What Gras ... ...

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  • Dropped Cash Taken at Manteca Fast Food Restaurant

    Surveillance footage from the night the cash was stolen. MANTECA– It was money that was intended to be a down payment on a new home, but it’s money that a man named ';John'; will probably never get back. ';It’s really heart breaking,'; said John. It happened earlier in May, when John says he had $2,200 in cash in his lap while driving to the El Pollo ...

  • Don’t Be That Guy Office Offenders

    There are a lot of shared spaces in the office and a lot of "guys". First the desk thief; from pens to chairs this is the person who "borrows" something from your space and doesn't return it. Next is a problem if you do or don't share a desk, "the workplace pig" who leaves his or her space a mess and doesn't clean-up for his or her co-workers. Then ...

  • Governor Brown Says Opening Of New Bay Bridge Span May Be Delayed

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  • Value of California workers comp system rises

    As the economy recovers and Californians head back to work, total direct written premium in the Golden State's workers' compensation market continues to rise. As the economy recovers and Californians head back to work, total direct written premium in the Golden State's workers' compensation market continues to rise. Workers' comp premium reached $9 billion last year, which ...

  • Gas prices stabilize in Sacramento jump nationwide

    In a rare reversal of a long-standing trend, gas prices in the Sacramento area and throughout California remained stable last week while the rest of the nation saw a significant increase.The average retail price of gasoline in the area rose about a penny over the past week to $3.97 a gallon, according to today's report by national price tracker GasBuddy.com, which surveys 720 stations in ...

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