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  • Sac History Happenings Railroad musuems offer special Memorial weekend activities

    Memorial Day is coming up, and that means big doings at the rail museums in Old Sacramento and Jamestown in Tuolumne County. To help celebrate ...

  • Temperatures to cool do throughout the week

    Look for close to a 20-degree drop in temperatures between today and Thursday.High pressure is expected to produce maximum temperatures in the low 90s today in the Sacramento region. Breezy and warm weather will be the order of the day until conditions begin to change on Tuesday with an upper level low moving into the Pacific Northwest.The changing conditions will moderate temperatures, dropping ...

  • Exposures I Care Teen helps recovering victims of the sex trade

    Sixteen-year-old Jordyn Jones barely breaks a sweat as she works in the garden with residents of Courage House, a home for young victims of sex trafficking supported by the Christian-based nonprofit Courage Worldwide. The girls joke around and Jordyn fits right in, but her life couldn't be more separate. Many of the girls living there are runaways from abusive families. Jones comes from a ...

  • More storms expected after rash of tornadoes

    And the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...

  • Police Suspected drunken driver causes road closure

    Officers said the driver was speeding on 65th Street when he lost control and sheared a utility pole in half. Officers estimated the road will take several hours before it ...


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Primer [DVD]

Primer [DVD]

The engineering trickery and ingenious work of the two after-hours inventors in Shane Carruth's low-key sci-fi mindbender Primer aptly reflects its writer/director/star's own cinematic cleverness. Using scant resources and a miniscule budget, Carruth has gotten the most bang for his buck by c ... ...

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  • Power in Parts of Sacramento will be Shut off For a Short Period

    SACRAMENTO - Power in parts of Sacramento will be shut off for a short time early Monday morning while SMUD crews attempt to repair a power pole. Police say a drunk driver on 65th Street Expressway hit a pole in between 8th and 9th Avenues. About ten feet of the bottom of the pole snapped off, but the top portion remains suspended in mid-air. The driver has been taken into custody and ...

  • Covered California to release list of health plans rates

    Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. The meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in ...

  • Folsom Lake College graduating largest class

    At its 10th commencement ceremony on Wednesday, Folsom Lake College will mark its largest-ever graduating class: 535 graduates. At its 10th commencement ceremony on Wednesday, Folsom Lake College will mark its largest-ever graduating class: 535 graduates. The colleges inaugural commencement in 2004 had 284 graduates, a spokeswoman said in an email. The class of 2013 earned 747 degrees and 209 ...

  • Gas price rollercoaster keeps on rolling

    ELK GROVE, Calif. - It has been a rollercoaster year for gas prices and it looks like that rollercoaster ride is going to continue. Gas prices are back up again across the nation, including places like Elk Grove, where it's $4.07 per gallon at the Shell station at Elk Grove Boulevard and Florin Road. The highest you'll see in Sacramento is about $3.89 per gallon. It seems that ...

  • How trustworthy are SPF ratings

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Sunbathers this summer will find new sunscreen labels that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially dangerous, a consumer watchdog group says. A survey of 1,400 sunscreen products by the Environmental Working ...

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