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  • Sacto 911 Suspected Carmichael pharmacy robber recovers enough to be booked

    A man shot last week when he allegedly attempted to rob a Carmichael pharmacy at gunpoint has been cleared to be booked into Sacramento County Jail. Zechariah Abraham Scholes, 36, had been in the hospital since he was shot on Tuesday by a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy. His condition had improved enough so that on Sunday he was booked into jail on suspicion of kidnapping and robbery. ...

  • Giving downtown new life with development

    A revitalization project on the 700 block of K Street is months away. Developer Bay Miry of D&S Development says he's expecting plenty more to keep him busy in the next few years, as interest in downtown is expected to skyrocket with a new arena in the works. As he and partners in CFY Development are months away from another revitalization project on the 700 block of K Street, Bay Miry of ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • New talks could save Prop. 13 reform for commercial property taxes

    The Assembly has postponed a controversial proposal to hike commercial property taxes, but the bill's author, Tom Ammiano, says it's not dead yet. California's Assembly has postponed a controversial proposal to hike commercial property taxes, but the bills author says its not dead yet. Assembly Bill 188 was introduced earlier this year by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a San Francisco ...

  • Analyst doubts governors budget for business

    California's Legislative Analyst Office agreed with Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to gradually cut the state's enterprise zone program, but has doubts about plans for its replacement, a recruiting and retention fund. As you might have heard, the states Legislative Analyst Office disagreed with Gov. Jerry Brown version of Californias finances last Friday, predicting Californias tax ...

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