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  • Final spring pickup of green waste set for Sacramento

    The final spring citywide pickup of green waste will be held next week in Sacramento.All yard waste must be placed out for collection no later than 6 a.m. Monday. The city advises residents to keep waste piles about six feet from vehicles and out of gutters and bike lanes.Yard waste acceptable for pick-up by the “claw” machines are leaves, tree trimmings, and shrub trimmings. Call The ...

  • Free admission to Great America amusement park for military on Memorial Day weekend

    America’s military personnel, active and retired, will be given free admission to California’s Great America amusement park on the Memorial Day ...

  • Obituary James Richard Rowoldt was Vietnam combat vet longtime VFW leader

    James Richard Rowoldt, a Vietnam War combat soldier who was a longtime California and national leader in the Veterans of Foreign Wars, died Thursday of cancer and diabetes, his family said. He was 68.Mr. Rowoldt ran the day-to-day operations of the California Department of the VFW as state adjutant/quartermaster since 2008. He oversaw the department headquarters' move to Elk Grove from ...

  • Data Center One in six recent California law school grads cant find jobs

    The job market for California law school graduates remains brutal, even as law school tuition rises to new heights.About 16 percent of 2012 graduates from California law schools were unemployed and looking for work nine months after graduation, according to new data from the American Bar Association.Many others were underemployed. Only half of law school graduates held full-time jobs requiring a ...

  • Sacramento Kings tickets in high demand

    Last week when the Kings were sold to the Vivek Ranadive-led Sacramento investment group, the call center at the arena was renewing season tickets at a pace of one every ...


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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run [DVD]

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run [DVD]

In the early 1950s, with the help of noted film theorist and critic Andr Bazin, 20-year-old Franois Truffaut began writing regularly for the Parisian film journal Cahiers du cinma. He quickly gained a reputation as an uncompromising and often vicious critic with a clear-cut sense of what was great about the cinemahe openly took aim on such previously untouchable French masters as Marcel Car ... ...

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  • Dolphin finds 130-year-old torpedo off San Diego

    U-T San Diego says the 19th-century Howell torpedo was found in March near Hotel del Coronado as the dolphin was being trained to find and mark the location of underwater ...

  • VIDEO Oklahoma Tornado Survivor Finds Her Dog Alive in the Rubble

    During a TV interview, a survivor of the massive Oklahoma tornado was reunited with her dog. The dog had gone missing when the tornado tore through her neighborhood, destroying her home. She was being interviewed by CBS News when the reporter noticed a dog under the rubble. Watch the reunion ...

  • Duck Confit with Braised Cabbage

    8 legs 6 Tbsp. Salt 6 Bay leaves 4 juniper berries, crushed 1 Tbsp. Dried thyme 1 tsp. Cracked pepper Season evenly and let cure overnight. The next day, brush some of the seasoning off the legs, place in a roasting pan, cover with heated duck fat and cook in a slow oven for 5 hours, being careful to keep the fat from getting too hot thus frying the ...

  • Oklahoma death toll revised 24 dead

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) - The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children. Spokeswoman Amy Elliot said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm. Authorities said initially that as many as 51 people were dead, including 20 children. Teams are ...

  • White House Chief of Staff Knew of IRS Report Before its Release

    Courtesy: CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) — New details emerged of what the White House knew about the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups, with spokesman Jay Carney disclosing Chief of Staff Denis McDonough was among the top officials made aware of the matter late last month. In a new timeline provided by Carney to reporters on Monday, General Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler learned ...

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