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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 ...

  • Sacramento man invents way to fight strokes

    SACRAMENTO, CA - A Sacramento man and his brother are waging a war on strokes by inventing the world's smallest device to remove dangerous blood clots. "This is why I am here," Vikram Janardhan explained. Janardhan lost three grandparents to strokes, which is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. By inventing SHELTER, a tiny umbrella shaped device, Janardhan ...

  • Student with Downs syndrome scammed out of hundreds of dollars

    Person of interest Sacramento State University police want to identify in connection to large amount of money taken from disabled student, May 16, ...

  • Greenville Woman “It Felt Like Our Whole House Lifted Up”

    PLUMAS COUNTY- Greenville’s Juliann Richard was standing at her sink, washing her dishes when she felt a magnitude 5.7 hit just miles from her home Thursday night. ';I felt like our whole house lifted up,'; Richard told FOX40 over the phone. She likened some of the trembling to a loud, bass-heavy car stereo rolling by before the larger shakes started. ';It hurt my back. ...

  • UPDATE 5.7 earthquake hits Northern California

    GREENVILLE, (AP) – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Northern California Thursday night that was widely felt across the region, but there were no reports of serious damage. The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered near Greenville, about 25 miles southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s National ...


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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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  • Earthquake in Greenville felt in all the way to Stockton

    A magnitude 5.7 Earthquake hit Greenville, Calif. around 8:47 p.m., according to the USGS. The epicenter was about 6.9 miles northwest of the Greenville. An aftershock of magnitude 3.5 hit around 8:55 p.m. A second aftershock of magnitude 2.6 hit around 9:04 p.m. Initially, USGS reported the magnitude of the earthquake was 5.9, but downgraded the magnitude to 5.7 a few minutes later. Cities ...

  • Earthquake Rattles Northern California Sacramento Region

    Map courtesy: USGS PLUMAS COUNTY- A magnitude 5.7 earthquake was reported by the United States Geological Survey Thursday night near Susanville, north of Chico. Tremors were felt as far down in the Sacramento. Greenville, the closest city to the epicenter, is about 145.6 miles from Sacramento. There were no immediate reports of damage, aside from objects falling from shelves. Stay with ...

  • Man Sentenced for Loaded Gun at Sacramento International Airport www.privateofficer.com

    --United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller sentenced Harold E. Waller, 46, of Circle, Montana, today to three years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for attempting to board an aircraft with a concealed, dangerous weapon, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, in March 2012, Waller drove from Montana to ...

  • Czech police seek Palo Alto man suspected of 4 murders

    PRAGUE (AP) - Czech police are searching for an American man suspected of killing four people and say they believe he is on the run and armed. Brno Police spokeswoman Petra Vedrova identified him as Kevin Dahlgren, born in 1992, and released his photograph. A Facebook page containing the same photograph says that Dahlgren is from Palo Alto, California, and lives in the Czech Republic's ...

  • New Emergency Operations Training Site Built By Prisoners

    A new emergency operations center in Folsom. FOLSOM- A new emergency operations training center was officially opened near Folsom Prison after it was constructed by inmates at the Prison Industry Authority. The facility is not only a training site for emergency disaster managers, it can be activated should other operations centers in the valley are disabled by flooding, fires or terrorist ...

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