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  • US man arrested for dialling 911 more than 100 times in one month

    A man from Sacramento has been arrested for calling 911 more than 100 times in about a month. According to police, Jimmy Shao needs help and he thinks that only the emergency hotline dispatcher can give it to him, the New York Daily News reported. The 56-year-old told KTXL-TV that the government is sending satellite signals directly into his body, thereby causing him severe pain and ...

  • Slain 10-year-old girl spoke of devoting her life to ending violence hours before she was shot

    José Luis Villegas jvillegas@sacbee.com Ernesto Campos and Imelda Tinoco, parents of Elvira Campos, recall a girl who "loved to draw; she even drew me," her dad ...

  • Sheriffs helicopter gets kids attention

    Pilot and Deputy Sheriff Fred Links, left, and kindergarten teacher Terry Dunn, right, ask kindergarden students to raise their hands to ask questions after Links landed the helicopter at Whitney Avenue Elementary School. The Sacramento Sheriff's Department aimed at improving the Arden Arcade neighborhood flew the helicopter there for a high tech show and tell with the students. Photo taken ...

  • California health exchange reveals premium costs insurers

    California's newly created health exchange announced the bottom line on its insurance policies and rates Thursday, bringing sharper focus to family impacts of next year's health care overhaul.Thirteen companies were selected to sell policies for the individual market through Covered California, a state-owned marketplace for comparing prices of coverage with identical benefits but ...

  • Obituary Broward was co-founder of Sudwerk microbrewery

    Ron Broward, a Davis businessman who co-founded the popular Sudwerk microbrewery and devoted himself to finding and identifying remains of missing U.S. service members in the Korean War, died May 8 of liver failure, his family said. He was ...


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Movie Review

Cleopatra [DVD]

Cleopatra [DVD]

In terms of sheer size and scope, legend and excess, few Hollywood films will ever be able to hold a candle to Joseph L. Mankiewicz's epic production of Cleopatra. From the beginning, when filming commenced in 1960, Cleopatra was doomed to be one of the largest, most expensive, and most problematic productions ever, and its inordinate cost almost sank 20th Century Fox (it was ba ... ...

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  • Back-seat Driver Sacramento plans portable mini-parks

    Soon, Sacramentans will be able to sit down to lunch – in the street!The local air quality management district, the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates and the city are joining to bring several "street parklets" to town, probably beginning with a few temporary parks in the next few weeks in midtown and downtown.A few cities, including San Francisco, have them. They are portable ...

  • Detective Confrontation between gangs led to athletes 2010 fatal shooting

    D'Andre Blackwell, 18, killed Saturday night June 5, 2010 in Elk Grove when a gun was fired during a graduation party at an Elk Grove motel, according to Elk Grove police. Shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday night, police responded to a shooting at the Holiday Inn Express on West Stockton Blvd, near Laguna Blvd. They found Blackwell lying in the hallway of the hotel's third floor with a ...

  • El Dorado warns of plague danger urges avoidance of rodents

    El Dorado County health officials are warning residents and visitors to stay away from chipmunks and squirrels because of renewed fears of the plague.Plague is an infectious disease that affects rodents and humans. Introduced into this country in 1900 when it hitchhiked to the United States on rat-infested ships, plague is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria.There were 999 confirmed or ...

  • 78 of countys arrested men test positive for drugs

    The nation's drug czar on Thursday released a report stating that 78 percent of adult males arrested in Sacramento County tested positive for at least one illegal drug.Gil Kerlikowske , director of national drug control policy, during an address at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., released the results of a 2012 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring report that collected data from inmates ...

  • Sacramento celebrates keeping Kings with downtown rally

    Fans crowd into Cesar Chavez Plaza on Thursday to celebrate the team's future in Sacramento. "The Kings are your team," owner Vivek Ranadive told ...

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