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Old meets new in historic Sacramento K Street tour

830 K Street: The Montgomery Ward Building, located at 830 K Street, was built in 1936 next to the Kress Building. This photograph of the Montgomery Ward building was taken on March 14, 1942 on a rare snowy day in Sacramento. The only other snowfall in Sacramento happened three decades ...
Mens Wearhouse ousts founder pitchman Zimmer

FILE - In this Thursday, May 6, 1999 file photo, George Zimmer, second from left, gestures to Andy Dolich prior to a meeting, in Oakland, Calif. Men's Wearhouse Inc. says it has dismissed Zimmer, its founder and executive chairman. In a terse release issued Wednesday, June 19, 2013, the company didn't give a reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men's Wearhouse from ...
Evacuation Orders Partially Lifted in Carstens Fire

Crews on their way to fight the Carstens Fire. MARIPOSA COUNTY- As the Carstens Fire is becoming increasingly contained, firefighters lifted evacuation orders for one area affected Tuesday evening. Residents of the Lushmeadow area are allowed to return to their homes. Earlier Tuesday, investigators revealed that the fire was human caused. It all started from an unattended campfire June 16. ...
Sacramento area winds calm with warming trend on the way

A halo encircles the sun in the Sacramento sky Tuesday afternoon, spurring many calls from curious observers to the National Weather Service office. Meteorologist Craig Shoemaker said the ring resulted from ice crystals in cirrus clouds that refracted light and created a mirror ...
Feds again leave empty-handed in Hoffa hunt

The search in a field near Detroit for ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa ended Wednesday, and as with so many past attempts to find him, authorities walked away empty-handed, the FBI ...

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Movie Review

The Little Mermaid [DVD]

It may be hard to believe in an age when Disney animated films are considered failures when they only gross $100 million, but there was a time not too long ago when the Disney animated studio was in trouble. After turning out numerous classics during the '30s, '40s, and '50s, the animation division had begun to sink into mediocrity, and the '70s and '80s produced interesting but flat films lik ... ...

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Hundreds more allowed back home in Calif. wildfire

Hundreds of additional residents have been allowed to return to their homes, as crews aided by lower temperatures and higher humidity made progress overnight against a wildfire near a main route into Yosemite National ...
Men’s Wearhouse Fires the ‘I Guarantee It’ Guy

Image of George Zimmer from the Men’s Wearhouse website. NEW YORK (CNNMoney)- Men’s Wearhouse executive chairman George Zimmer has been ';terminated,'; the clothing retailer said on Wednesday. Zimmer opened the company’s first store in Houston in 1973. He’s been the bearded face of Men’s Wearhouse in television ads for years, famously promising men, ...
Women to be Allowed in Special Forces Units

SACRAMENTO- A full 16 years after Demi Moore starred in ';G.I. Jane,'; the U.S. military has decided to follow suit. Tuesday, the Pentagon announced it will start allowing women to serve in elite special forces units. By 2015, exclusively male units like the Army Rangers and the Navy SEALs could have women among their ranks. Currently, the basic physical fitness standards in the ...
Region Returning to Form According to Real Estate Data

SACRAMENTO- Good news for people who live or work, or want to live and work, in Sacramento County. ';On a year over year basis we are up about 9,000 jobs,'; said Barbara Hayes, the President and CEO of SACTO. Tuesday, the Sacramento-area commerce and trade organization announced PennyMac Loan Services is opening up in Sacramento and bringing 200 new jobs. Clear Capital, a real ...
House panel starts rewrite of No Child Left Behind

WASHINGTON -; House lawmakers are beginning work on a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law that would give states more authority and Washington ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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US immigration bill clears key senate hurdle

As a major immigration bill that would give over 11 million people, including some 260,000 Indians, living illegally in America a path to citizenship, it received a full endorsement from President Barack Obama.

"If you're serious about actually fixing the system, then this is the vehicle to do it," he said Tuesday at the White House, flanked by immigration reform supporters, hours before a strong Senate majority voted to open debate on it.

"If you're not serious about it, if you think that a broken system is the best America can do, then I guess it might make sense to try to block it," he said referring to the bill drafted by a bipartisan "gang of eight", four Democrats and four Republicans.

"But if you're actually serious and sincere about fixing a broken immigration system, this is the vehicle to do it," he said flanked among others by young undocumented students and the US Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, Tom Donohue.

"This bill isn't perfect, it's a compromise," Obama said. "And going forward, nobody is going to get everything they want. Not Democrats, not Republicans, not me. But this is a bill that's largely consistent with the principles that I and the people on this stage have laid out for common-sense reform. ...