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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) ...

  • Indian-headed group buys Sacramento Kings NBA team

    A day after NBA owners rejected Sacramento Kings' move to Seattle, the Maloof brothers, owners of the franchise, have agreed to sell the basketball side to a Sacramento-based group headed by Indian Vivek Ranadive. Ranadive, who is a software billionaire, will purchase 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family in a deal that is expected to be announced later Friday, reports ESPN. The 65 ...

  • Report N Korea fires short-range missiles

    North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as ...

  • Powerball ticket sales soar in California

    "For two dollars people are buying a dream, buying hope to change their lives," said Russell of the California Lottery. "For two bucks, why ...

  • Mom Mad After Kids Find Racy Junk Mail

    SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- Pamela Aguilar says her 6-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter discovered something too racy for their young eyes in the mail. She says she didn't think anything of the white envelope from Power Labs in Newhall, California, that was addressed to her husband. The outside read "Natural science has finally solved your biggest problems." But nothing hinted at ...


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Girl, Interrupted

At the beginning of "Girl, Interrupted,"18-year-old Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) is sent to the fictional Claymoore hospital, an expensive mental institution just outside of Boston, despite her protests that she was not, in fact, trying to commit suicide, when she chased an entire bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. ...

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  • Conservative Group Wants Parents to Boycott Harvey Milk Day

    SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- A conservative group is calling for parents to keep their children home from school on a day commemorating the first openly gay lawmaker. Savecalifornia.com, a site affiliated with the Campaign for Children and Families, is running an ad in Sacramento and Los Angeles calling for a boycott of Harvey Milk Day. In 2009, California lawmakers recognized May 22 in his honor. To ...

  • Mom of Earlier Victim Kidnapping Suspect Shouldn’t Have Been Out of Prison

    SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- A suspect in custody Friday for allegedly kidnapping a 7-year-old girl and stuffing her in his trunk is a registered sex offender who has attacked before. It's the exact scenario the mother of the suspect's first victim says should never have happened. Christy says Cedreic Holland should still be in prison for the horrible things he did to her daughter when she ...

  • Pelosi implores UC Davis law graduates to embrace justice public service

    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, exhorts the UC Davis law school graduates to "make that legacy of Martin Luther King your own." The ceremony Friday was held in the Mondavi Center on the UCD ...

  • Man arrested in kidnapping of girl from Sacramento street is registered sex offender

    A man previously convicted of sex offenses has been arrested in connection with the midday abduction of a 7-year-old girl on a south Sacramento street nearly a week ago.Cedric Lain Holland, 25, was booked into the Sacramento County jail Thursday night on suspicion of kidnapping to commit another crime and violation of parole.He was taken into custody at his home on Sixth Avenue in Sacramento, ...

  • Court backs Redding paper in privacy suit

    California newspapers have a legal right to publish the names of children who are subjected to abuse if a name is newsworthy, a Sacramento appellate court ruled Friday.Relying heavily on a 1998 California Supreme Court decision, a three-justice panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal said that "publication of truthful, lawfully obtained material of legitimate public concern is ...

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