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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 ...
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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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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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 ...
Kings flooded with fans seeking season tickets

A crowd of supporters react to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson during a news conference announcing the purchase of the Maloof's ownership of the Sacramento Kings at City Hall in Sacramento on Friday, May 17, ...
Sacto 911 Two who died in Auburn plane crash are identified

The two people killed when their single-engine airplane crashed in Placer County over the weekend have been identified as a couple from Lassen County. Bruce Albright Rhymes, 59, and his wife, Kathy Lorraine Rhymes, 58, died Sunday when their aircraft crashed near Auburn Airport, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Department. Ian Gregor, public affairs manager for the Federal ...
Brown cites safety in possible Bay Bridge delay

Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he does not know if the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open over Labor Day weekend because of safety ...

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Indian American Vivek Ranadive buys US basketball team

Indian American software magnate Vivek Ranadive, who has become the first person of Indian descent to become the owner of a major US basketball team, plans to build the Sacramento Kings into a global brand.

"It's going to be exciting," he told the USA Today after securing an agreement to buy 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family for a National Basketball Association (NBA) league-record valuation of $535 million.

"We're going to build a global brand with the Kings. We're going to give the fans the product that they deserve," the minority owner of Golden State Warriors said on achieving his longtime goal.

The development came just a day after NBA owners officially rejected a bid by the Maloofs, who have owned the team since 1998, to relocate the Kings from Sacramento, California, to Seattle, Washington.

"It's a little bittersweet, obviously because I'm a huge Warriors fan and I have a lot of friends here," Ranadive told USA Today Sports. "I'm very, very excited to start the new (challenge)."

Ranadive, who left India as a 17-year-old to attend MIT and later founded his $4 billion company in Silicon Valley, Tibco, has the sort of competitiveness and deep pockets that could lead one of the league's most poorly run franchises back to respectability, the USA Today said." ...