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  • 7 injured in Mo. train collision overpass collapse

    Seven people were injured early Saturday morning in southeastern Missouri after two freight trains collided, taking out a nearby overpass. A Union Pacific train t-boned a Burlington Northern train at an intersection, Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter told KFVS-TV. The collision caused one of the trains to derail and hit a pillar under the overpass, collapsing it. Two vehicles were on the ...

  • Woodland Parolee Injures Officers During Arrest

    File photo WOODLAND - Wooland Police officers were injured Friday night while attempting to make an arrest. Just before 11 p.m., officers got reports of a domestic disturbance at a house near West and Elliot Streets. When cops arrived, they confronted Howard Steven Wilbanks, 57, who had reportedly assaulted his girlfriend with a knife. When the cops tried to take him into custody he started ...

  • Davis Farmers Market known as food mecca

    The market is a big gathering spot in town, and not only does it bring tourism to Davis, but the city said it entices people to move there so they can have better access to farm fresh ...

  • Suburban Sacramento region schools improve API test scores

    Suburban schools in the Sacramento region are generally doing a better job of increasing student test scores than their urban counterparts, according to state data released Friday.The California Department of Education released base Academic Performance Index, or API, results for last school year. The API score represents a composite of test scores at schools and districts. The state ranks ...

  • Sacramento man makes light of earthquake gets chuckles and criticism

    Wine bottles and other goods spilled during the earthquake Thursday night at the Evergreen Market in Greenville, Plumas County.pic courtesy Evergreen ...


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Winter's Bone

Winter's Bone

Winters Bone is set in the Ozark Mountains of southwestern Missouri, and to American viewers not familiar with the region, it could very well be another country. With the exception of the Deep South, this particular part of the Midwest is a kind of dark mirror of the American ima ... ...

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  • Dry winter makes spring look like summer in Northern California streams

    It may feel like spring in California, but this Memorial Day weekend, many rivers and creeks look like they're already trickling through summer.Rafters and kayakers headed outdoors this weekend will find no room to float their boats on some waterways. Snowmelt runoff peaked a month early in some watersheds, leaving some of their streams too low for holiday water play.The north fork of the ...

  • Tall tale of stuffed 14-foot-tall giraffe to end in Arizona

    Eric Nelson, whose Rio Oso home provided the site where the 14-foot-tall giraffe was stuffed, loads the animal into a truck as taxidermist Grady Miller provides ...

  • Charities strain to compete for race runners

    Whatever your cause, there's probably a charity race out there for you.Nonprofits today are working harder than ever to earn your charity dollars. But with competition fierce, even the most prominent foundations are struggling to fill their rosters. Sacramento's Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure – part of what is arguably the nation's most popular fundraiser for breast cancer ...

  • CSUS prods students to graduate more quickly

    Sacramento State will graduate 4,600 students in ceremonies ending today – 837 more than last spring.A rebounding job market could be the reason more students are graduating, or skyrocketing tuition, but it also could be the CSU Graduation Initiative put in place in 2010.The initiative was designed to combat low graduation rates within the California State University system, where only 15 ...

  • Recovered body may be driver of auto in river

    Sacramento police and fire crews recovered a body Friday evening from the Sacramento River near Riverside Boulevard.Sacramento Police Sgt. Andrew Pettit said the body is that of a male and may be the driver of a vehicle that went into the river at Sutterville Road and Riverside Boulevard, near Interstate 5, late Tuesday.Pettit said officers responded to a report of a vehicle accident at 11:48 ...

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