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  • Fees to park rise at Sacramento County regional parks

    Fees to park at Sacramento County regional parks go up and an alcohol ban goes into affect this Memorial Day weekend.The fees increase to $8 for most vehicles and $13 for over-sized vehicles and those towing watercraft at all county parks. The fees increase to cover county costs for ranger patrol and maintenance during the Saturday through Monday period.Also, during the three-day weekend, ...

  • Sacto 911 Vandalism at Woodland church hall includes threat against police

    Woodland police said that a Catholic church hall was vandalized with graffiti, including a threat against officers. Police were dispatched to the Holy Rosary Community Center, 575 California St., about 5 a.m. today for a vandalism report. Once there, officers found gang graffiti, including a threat to kill law enforcement. "Though the graffiti did not cause permanent damage, any vandalism ...

  • CHP Wrong-way driver involved in fatal head-on crash

    FAIRFIELD, Calif. - A person suspected of driving from Fairfield to Benicia on the wrong side of two interstates was involved in a fatal head-on wreck Sunday. California Highway Patrol officer Ralph Caggiano said the CHP received a call of a driver entering I-80 in the wrong direction near the truck scales in Fairfield around 8 p.m. The driver headed westbound on the eastbound side of the ...

  • Proposed Calif. measure requires random doctor drug tests

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A proposed state ballot measure in California would require doctors to be randomly subjected to drug and alcohol testing. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the "Pee in the Cup" initiative is being pushed by Bob Pack, a technology mogul and former executive at AOL Inc. and NetZero Inc. His young son and daughter were killed a decade ago by a driver under the ...

  • Driver Arrested For DUI After Hitting And Dragging Power Pole With Car

    SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Crews were cleaning up debris on the road and repairing power lines Monday morning in south Sacramento after a suspected DUI driver crashed into a power pole overnight. The crash happened on 65th Street at 8th Avenue at around 2:30 a.m. Police say a sedan hit the power pole, shearing it off and dragged the pole a block and a half before his car finally ...


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Primer [DVD]

Primer [DVD]

The engineering trickery and ingenious work of the two after-hours inventors in Shane Carruth's low-key sci-fi mindbender Primer aptly reflects its writer/director/star's own cinematic cleverness. Using scant resources and a miniscule budget, Carruth has gotten the most bang for his buck by c ... ...

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  • ED GOLDMAN Meet wealth manager Kimberly Foss

    Kimberly Foss is a Sacramento-area wealth manager and financial planner who frequently appears on TV news programs. Such a Foss! Some people keep a TV set in their offices. Kimberly Foss goes them one better: She has an entire studio in hers. As youd expect from an experienced wealth manager/financial planner, building a studio was based on a pragmatic decision. Foss is on local or national ...

  • Tornadoes wallop several states 2 killed

    The death toll now stands at two after tornadoes swept through Oklahoma on Sunday, the state medical examiner's office said Monday. Both victims were elderly men from ...

  • Suspects accidentally dial 911 during alleged car theft

    FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Two suspects arrested for breaking into a car in Central California accidentally called 911 on a cellphone, which led police to them. A dispatcher was able to hear a rambling 35-minute conversation between the men as they discussed buying drugs and what implements to use to break into vehicles in Fresno. The dispatcher listened in as the suspects smashed a car's ...

  • Firefighter Trapped Killed in 6-Alarm Blaze

    A firefighter became trapped and lost his life while battling this large fire in Dallas, Texas.Courtesy: CNN DALLAS (CNN)- The body of a firefighter trapped inside a burning condominium complex in Dallas was removed from the rubble early Monday morning. Firefighters initiated a search for the responder at the complex in northeast Dallas after he radioed that he was trapped, according to CBS11 ...

  • Sacto 911 Suspected Carmichael pharmacy robber recovers enough to be booked

    A man shot last week when he allegedly attempted to rob a Carmichael pharmacy at gunpoint has been cleared to be booked into Sacramento County Jail. Zechariah Abraham Scholes, 36, had been in the hospital since he was shot on Tuesday by a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy. His condition had improved enough so that on Sunday he was booked into jail on suspicion of kidnapping and robbery. ...

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