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  • Sacto 911 Sacramento man gets 30 months for sale of crack near school

    A Sacramento man was sentenced in federal court for selling crack cocaine near an Oakland elementary school. Oscar Baker Phillips, 34, was sentenced Monday in Oakland to 30 months in prison, followed by six years of supervised release. Phillips pled guilty on March 5 to distribution of crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school. In a plea agreement, Phillips admitted that on July 3 he sold ...

  • Sacto 911 Body found in canal in Natomas

    Sacramento police said no foul play is suspected in the death of a woman whose body was found in a Natomas canal.Two joggers came upon the body of the woman in her 70s in the water near Bridgecross Drive and Natomas Boulevard about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.The Sacramento County Coroner's office responded and took over the investigation. Her identity has not been ...

  • Basements scarce in tornado-prone Okla. city

    It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them -- even though that state is hit by far more powerful tornadoes than most ...

  • Man Loses Late Wife’s Car To Garage Fire

    NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – A fire destroyed the garage of a North Highlands home overnight. The blaze started just before 2 a.m. on North Country Drive near Brown Otter Drive. Walter Williams, a retired air force veteran, lives alone in the home and was able to get out safely, thanks to a fire ...

  • Sacramento area temperatures to dip then warm by weekend

    Temperatures are expected to drop again today, reaching only the low 70s in Sacramento.Monday's high temperature was 92 degrees, Tuesday's high was 82 and today could be 73. The normal maximum for late May in Sacramento is 82 degrees.Starting on Friday, a slight warm-up begins for the Memorial Day weekend. The detailed, 7-day forecast from the NWS for the Sacramento region:Today: ...


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Sacramento Weather
58.7°F Clear
Winds: From the NNW at 5.0 MPH
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75° 48°
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77° 50°
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81° 48°
Last Updated on May 22, 10:20 AM PDT
Weather sourced from Weather Underground

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You know a horror film is wearing its wink-wink meta-knowingness on its gore-soaked sleeve when it introduces each of its characters/potential victims in a freeze-frame with crucial information that includes a cheeky nickname and their life expectancy. Crucially, both pieces of information refer to ... ...

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  • Marcos Breton Officials remaking downtown inch by inch

    In building cities, it's all about controlling land and assets.After years of suffering undesirable landlords and difficult partners, Sacramento finally has large swaths of downtown land under control.And Sacramento's best known asset – the Kings – will soon officially be in the hands of a group of achievers poised to invest a fortune in the downtown corridor. These developments ...

  • ED GOLDMAN Mariel Hemingway on suicide and sadness

    Actress, author and activist Mariel Hemingway came to Sacramento to promote a film about her family, Barbara Kopples Running From Crazy, which was produced by Oprah Winfrey. Actress, author and activist Mariel Hemingway is telling me she recently had dinner in New York with Woody Allen, her co-star and friend who wrote and directed her to stardom in his 1979 film Manhattan. I was surprised how ...

  • $5M case Deputy crashes possibly distracted eating hamburger

    Santa Clara County is on the hook for a $5 million settlement in a crash involving a sheriff's deputy who allegedly took his eyes off the road while eating a McDonald's ...

  • Hit-and-run driver kills man in wheelchair

    A man fatally shot early Wednesday by an FBI agent in Orlando was being investigated for a possible connection to the Boston bombings, a U.S. law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the Boston Marathon case told ...

  • Great Hang Up Oakdale mother deals with losses from distracted driving

    OAKDALE, Calif. - Bonnye Spraye is a tireless advocate for driver safety after losing her daughter Amanda in a texting crash several years ago. Amanda was texting and driving when she crashed her car and was killed, said Spraye. And only last week, Spraye and her husband were on their way to deliver a talk on distracted driving when they were hit by a suspected distracted driver in the Escalon ...

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