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  • First it’s Sacramento then local Realtors travel to DC

    Just back from meeting their state legislators in Sacramento early in the month, members of the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors trekked to Washington, D.C., last week, joining more than 9,000 attendees from across the nation at the National Association of Realtors midyear legislative meetings and trade ...

  • Vandals sought as El Dorado County cedars go missing

    El Dorado County residents and sheriff's investigators are trying to track down vandals who have laid waste to thousands of dollars' worth of trees on private property.Detective John Robertson said he has five active cases, all involving cedars that have been felled in recent months. Three of the incidents occurred on the same property along Lotus Road. "We're looking at ...

  • Search and Rescue Dogs Trained in California Get to Work in Oklahoma

    SACRAMENTO- The devastation is mind boggling; rubble and wreckage in every direction. It's a flat challenge to anyone whose job it is to find out, and find out quickly, what’s underneath. ';The team in Oklahoma? They were on the ground within two and a half hours,'; said Metro Fire Captain Shani Cornell. Captain Cornell has worked with the search and rescue teams now on ...

  • Cathie Anderson Fungus killing coffee plantations in Mexico Central America

    Coffee lovers probably won't hear much about la roya in the United States, but this fungal disease is decimating thousands of coffee farms across Mexico and Central America.Pete Rogers isn't the average American coffee lover. He travels to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and other exotic locales to find and purchase green coffee beans for his family's company, Rogers ...

  • Defense attorney denies anti-gay hate crime in Davis beating

    The defense attorney for accused hate attacker Clayton Garzon asserted Monday that the March beating of another Davis man was not fueled by anti-gay sentiment.Garzon, 20, faces three felony assault charges and hate crime allegations connected to the beating of Lawrence "Mikey" Partida early March 10 near Third and I streets in Davis. The attack occurred outside a birthday party for ...


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Movie Review

Along Came a Spider

In Along Came a Spider, Morgan Freeman reprises his role as Washington, DC forensic psychologist and police detective Dr. Alex Cross, the hero of five mystery novels by James Patterson. Freeman also played the role in 1997's Kiss the Girls, although Spider is based on the novel that introduced Cross's character. It is interesting and a bit disappointing in that respect that m ... ...

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  • Parking fees increase at regional parks

    Parking fees at Sacramento County regional parks go up this Memorial Day weekend.The fees increase to $8 for most vehicles and $13 for oversized vehicles and those towing watercraft at all county parks. The fees increase to cover county costs for ranger patrol and maintenance during the Saturday through Monday ...

  • Tanning salon chain opens capital outlet

    California Sun, the Roseville-based tanning salon chain operating more than 20 outlets in Northern California and Nevada, has opened a new salon in Sacramento.The salon is in the Promenade shopping center at 7485 Rush River Drive, just southwest of the intersection of Interstate 5 and Florin Road.California Sun opened its first salon in 1993 in Placer ...

  • Solar Power Inc. warns it could go out of business

    The light continues to fade at Solar Power Inc.Reporting another quarterly loss Monday, the Roseville solar-energy developer said it has burned through much of its cash and again warned shareholders it's in danger of going out of business.Solar Power is a victim of an industrywide bust in the solar business, caused largely by massive overproduction on the part of Chinese solar-panel ...

  • Sacramento area rated high for women

    The Sacramento area and other Northern California communities are among the nation's best for women in the workforce, according to research by consumer finance site NerdWallet.com in San Francisco.Weighing multiple variables – including overall pay, salaries vs. male workers and area population – NerdWallet ranked the Sacramento-Arden Arcade-Roseville region 10th nationwide among large ...

  • State gas price stable as U.S. cost goes up

    In a rare reversal of a long-standing trend, gas prices in the Sacramento area and throughout California remained stable last week while the rest of the nation saw a significant increase.The average retail price of gasoline in the area rose about a penny over the past week to $3.97 a gallon, according to national price tracker GasBuddy.com, which surveys 720 stations in the area.Statewide, ...

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