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  • Police standoff on 100 blk. Tristan Circle Sacramento

    SACRAMENTO, CA - Police officers are outside a home on the 100 block of Tristan Circle after the sound of gunfire from inside was reported. It's not clear if more than one person is inside. The 911 call was made at 2:02 p.m. ...

  • New Kings Mural Celebrates Team

    Demetris Washington works on a new mural for the Sacramento Kings. SACRAMENTO - The city of Sacramento has begun celebrating the Sacramento Kings, including a new mural near J and 10th streets. Sacramento leaders haveasked Demetris Washington to paint a mural in honor of the team. He began painting on Wednesday. The mural includes the phrase ';long live Sacramento Kings';. ...

  • Homes See 25 Increase in Price but Experts Fear Another Bubble

    SACRAMENTO- It’s something millions of us do every day – walk into Starbucks for the caffeine we can’t do without. But what if your daily order saw a 25 percent increase in price? That’s just about what’s happened with home prices in the Sacramento metro-area according to Zillow, a real estate web-site. Prices are up an average 25.4 percent and in some areas, ...

  • “Long Live the Kings” Rally Performers Revealed

    SACRAMENTO- Organizers of the ';Long Live the Kings'; Rally revealed a list of people appearing at the event Wednesday, including ';Glee'; star Chord Overstreet and his country singer father Paul, Tesla guitarist Frank Hannon, rapper Alex Johnson and artist Dave Garibaldi. The event at Cesar Chavez Park is free, and will from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. FOX40 will be there live ...

  • Person Barricaded in Home near Elementary School

    SOUTH SACRAMENTO- A person armed with a weapon is reportedly barricading themselves inside a home in South Sacramento, near an elementary school. The person is reportedly "despondent" according to police, who also say there were sounds of gunfire heard from inside the home. The home is off Center Parkway and north of Mack Road, near Charles E. Mack Elementary. Officers told the ...


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Ratcatcher [DVD]

Ratcatcher [DVD]

Lynne Ramsey's feature debut Ratcatcher won't win any awards for originality of subject matterafter all, the pains of adolescence in the lower economic strata depicted in a social-realist manner is hardly new in British filmmakingbut it is done so deftly, with such a exquisitely poetic touch and keen understanding of the paradoxical coexistence of filth and beauty in the world, that you ca ... ...

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  • Metal Pipe Impales Kills Rocklin Man While Driving On I-580

    LIVERMORE (CBS13) -- A man’s death is under investigation after he was impaled by a metal pipe while driving on Interstate 580 Wednesday. California Highway Patrol says the accident happened near Livermore around 8:10 a.m. after the pipe — about 2 to 3-foot long, and 1 to 2 inches in diameter — went through the windshield of the man’s car and hit him in the ...

  • Folsom prison adds emergency training center

    State prison officials will open a new emergency operations center at Folsom State Prison on Thursday thats designed to meet the needs of emergency management personnel and serve as grounds to train public safety workers. State prison officials will open a new emergency operations center at Folsom State Prison on Thursday thats designed to meet the needs of emergency management personnel and ...

  • Moore mayor 5 of 6 missing found alive

    "We'll try to get it passed as soon as I can," Glenn Lewis said. The ordinance would apply to single-family and multifamily homes. At least 24 people, including 10 children, were killed in Monday's mammoth tornado, the state medical examiner's office said. Another 324 people were injured, said Gov. Mary Fallin. Lewis said Wednesday that six people previously unaccounted ...

  • Sacto 911 Sacramento police surround home where armed subject is barricaded

    Sacramento police have surrounded a south Sacramento home where an armed person is believed to be barricaded. The home is on the 100 block of Tristan Circle, near Mack and Meadowview roads. Police radio traffic indicates shots were fired at some point, but it was not immediately clear whether anyone has been hit. Sacramento police said on Twitter that shots were heard from inside the home. ...

  • Mather assisted housing project for veterans closer to reality

    Rancho Cordova city officials think a new assisted housing project for disabled homeless veterans near Mather Airport could be months away from breaking ground, after the city council approved a pair of needed entitlements for the Mather Veterans Village this week. Reed Flory, housing services administrator for the city of Rancho Cordova, said a 3.69-acre parcel for the project will house both ...

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