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  • Sacramento police say baby left in running car at Taco Bell while mom apparently sleeps it off nearby

    A baby was left in a parked vehicle at a Sacramento fast food restaurant not far from where officers said they found the child's passed out, apparently intoxicated mother. Customers having lunch at the Taco Bell near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Fruitridge Road on Monday saw the vehicle parked with the windows down, engine running and radio on. However, they did not initially ...

  • Our values won Obama says in Berlin

    U.S. President Barack Obama followed in the footsteps of past U.S. leaders with a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate that a senior administration official said would ask Russia to join the United States in slashing its supply of strategic nuclear ...

  • Serial flasher suspected in Sacramentos Pocket area

    Sacramento police officers released a picture of a person they'd like to identify who may be linked to a series of flashing incidents dating back to Oct. 23, 2011, all within a roughly one-square mile area of Sacramento's Pocket-Greenhaven ...

  • Girl says she was tortured while dad was in prison

    The Sacramento Bee says the girl testified Tuesday in the Sacramento trial of 37-year-old Duewa Lee, who's charged with a dozen felony counts. Her father, Wade Carter, was arrested for robbery two years ago and later sent to prison. The girl, who was 12 at the time, told jurors that over several months Lee burned her with an iron and hot spatulas, threw her down stairs, refused to let her ...

  • Teen claims she was tortured by jailed fathers fiancee

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A 14-year-old Northern California girl has told a jury that she was burned, brutalized and tortured by her father's fiancee while he was in prison. The Sacramento Bee says the girl testified Tuesday in the Sacramento trial of 37-year-old Duewa Lee, who's charged with a dozen felony counts. Her father, Wade Carter, was arrested for robbery two years ago and ...


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The Little Mermaid [DVD]

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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  • Report 1 in 9 U.S. bridges are structurally deficient

    More than one in nine bridges in the USA - at least 66,405, or 11% of the total - are structurally deficient, according to a new report. These are not rarely used, out-of-the way structures: Each day, Americans take 260 million trips over structurally deficient bridges, says the report from Transportation for America, a Washington, D.C.-based coalition that works to improve transportation. The ...

  • Man Overturns Car Unsure of Where He Is

    WILTON - A man possibly driving under the influence lost control of his car and overturned it early Wednesday morning in Wilton. The accident happened near Dillard Road and Cosumnes Road around 2 a.m. The man was taken to the hospital for minor injuries. CHP suspected he was DUI because he thought he was in Stockton, which is about 40 miles away from his ...

  • Loaded rifle explosive device found during Butte Co. traffic stop

    COHASSET, Calif. - A seemingly routine traffic stop resulted in a call out for the Butte County bomb squad Tuesday. Butte County Sheriff's Dept. Sergeant Mike Lydon said a deputy stopped Wayne Alan Smith on Coasset Rd. at approximately 5:50 p.m. During the stop, the deputy discovered a loaded rifle in the vehicle. The deputy then performed a complete search of the vehicle and found a ...

  • Was TWA Flight 800 crash accidental

    Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was ...

  • San Jose suing Major League Baseball over A’s Stadium Issue

    SAN JOSE - The 2013 Oakland A’s are young and thriving at the top of their division.The same cannot be said abouttheir stadium, the O.co Coliseum,which was constructed in 1966. Now the City of San Jose is suingMajor League Baseball and Commissioner Bud Selig for the right to builda new stadium for the A’s. ';Major League baseball has no right whatsoever to deny the tenth ...

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