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Elk Grove woman I heard the tornado and the phone went dead

At least 51 people -- including seven children at an elementary school -- were killed when a massive tornado struck an area outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, officials ...
Help The Victims Of The Oklahoma Tornadoes

A U.S. flag lays among debris in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013 following a tornado up to a mile wide which swept through the Oklahoma City ...
Murder mystery New details in death of nursing grad Phuong Le

Tales of the American dream abound for young immigrants like Phuong Le, who emigrated from Vietnam when she was 9. But her parents never imagined this kind of ending for their daughter, who just graduated from nursing ...
Sex offender apprehended in rape of Lodi girl

LODI, CA - A registered sex offender sought in the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Lodi was arrested Monday. John Robert Ganoe allegedly sexually assaulted the girl at knifepoint in a hotel room on the 800 block of S. Cherokee Lane last Wednesday, according to Lodi police Det. Hettie Schaeffer. Ganoe knew the girl and lured her into his room, the detective said. Ganoe was captured with the ...
Mont. man dies in Yosemite climbing accident

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a Montana man has died in a rock climbing accident as he tried to climb to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. A Yosemite park spokeswoman says 38-year-old Mason Robison was killed after a rock dislodged and severed his rope as he and a partner were about 2,300 feet above the Yosemite Valley floor. Spokeswoman Kari Cobb says ...

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Holes

Holes is definitely not your typical Disney family movie. Set in a work camp for convicted juveniles in the middle of a dry lakebed in the desolation of deep West Texas, it is visually striking, with the harsh images on screen matched by a surprisingly genuine depiction of troubled youth. Granted, in the end all the juvenile delinquents turn out to be generally good kids at heart, but the ... ...

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Detective Slain 10-year-old girl was targeted in calculated attack

"When they're standing right here and pointing a gun and it's no less than 2 or 3 feet away from the girl, they knew exactly that they were shooting a 10-year old girl," Wallace ...
Man Suspected in Attempted Kidnapping Appears in Court

Sacramento County Superior Court SACRAMENTO- The man accused of throwing a 7-year-old girl in the trunk of his car appeared in court Monday, where his bail amount was increased from $1 million to $4 million. The girl managed to escape. Prosecutors argued that 25-year-old Cedric Holland is a danger to the community and pointed out that this isn’t the first time he was in trouble with ...
Modesto Funeral Services Business Remains Under Investigation

MODESTO- When the story of a Modesto funeral services business that was under investigation broke, Willie Cotton ran to her locket to see if her husband's remains were inside and she found nothing. Cotton has not been able to sleep since for she wants answers. "We have no peace; I have never heard of anything like this I have never planned a funeral, I never cremated no loved ...
Police Arrest Man Suspected of Sexually Assaulting Teen

John Ganoe’s booking photo (Lodi Police) LODI- Lodi Police say they arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl at knifepoint Monday. Lodi officers had help from Stockton Police and the U.S. Marshals. Investigators say a 13-year-old girl that knew 44-year-old John Ganoe reported that he had lured her into a hotel room and sexually assaulted her overnight at ...
Daily thought Sacramento park without play area

Resident's who live near the park on Franklin Blvd in South Sacramento just before one reaches Mack Road, are confused. Resident's want to know why they waited over a year for the city to build the park that will not have a biking area, a skating area or even a play structure. It seems logical to most that a park should have a children's theme. Children need a place to play ...

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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) league-record valuation of $535 million.

"We're going to build a global brand with the Kings. We're going to give the fans the product that they deserve," the minority owner of Golden State Warriors said on achieving his longtime goal.

The development came just a day after NBA owners officially rejected a bid by the Maloofs, who have owned the team since 1998, to relocate the Kings from Sacramento, California, to Seattle, Washington.

"It's a little bittersweet, obviously because I'm a huge Warriors fan and I have a lot of friends here," Ranadive told USA Today Sports. "I'm very, very excited to start the new (challenge)."

Ranadive, who left India as a 17-year-old to attend MIT and later founded his $4 billion company in Silicon Valley, Tibco, has the sort of competitiveness and deep pockets that could lead one of the league's most poorly run franchises back to respectability, the USA Today said." ...