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Former child hero accused of torture murder of Davis couple
DAVIS, CA - A teenage boy, once honored for saving his father's life, remained in custody Tuesday night accused of torturing and killing an elderly Davis couple. Daniel Marsh is only 16, but he'll be tried as an adult for the murders of Oliver Northup, 87, and his wife Claudia Maupin, ...
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700 allowed home as Mariposa wildfire slows
MARIPOSA, CA (AP) - Nearly half the people who had to evacuate their Northern California homes are being allowed to return as firefighters catch up with a wildfire near the main route into Yosemite National Park. Officials with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said evacuation orders for some 700 people would expire at 8 p.m. local time Tuesday. About 800 people remain ...
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Teen once lauded as hero is charged in Davis double-homicide case
Police tape limits access April 15 to the home in Davis where Oliver Northup and his wife, Claudia Maupin, were found fatally stabbed. Davis police received assistance from the FBI, the state and other jurisdictions in the ...
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Sacramento gains 200 new jobs in mortgage industry
Sacramento is getting 200 new jobs in the mortgage industry, sopping up some of the talent left over from the housing crash.PennyMac Loan Services of Moorpark, in Ventura County, has already hired 40 workers and will ramp up to a total of 200 jobs eventually, the company said Tuesday. Its decision to come to the region was announced by SACTO, the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade ...
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Blue Diamond opens first phase of major plant in Turlock
Blue Diamond officials hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the plant, whose first phase will employ 100 workers directly related to ...
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Flood plan would pile tons of rocks at Brannon Island park
A fisherman tries his luck Tuesday across from Brannan Island, one strategic point in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta where state officials plan to store large piles of rock and sand to use in case of a flood to bolster weakened ...
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Proposal on big-box stores heads to Sacramento City Council for debate
So-called big box stores such as Wal-Mart - this one in West Sacramento - could get into the Sacramento market if city leaders repeal restrictions on those ...
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Sutter Health network rolls out HMO plan
The Sacramento-based Sutter Health network of doctors and hospitals has named its new HMO health plan Sutter Health Plus.Initially, Sutter Health Plus will offer a range of HMO plans to individuals and small and midsize employers in the greater Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley regions. Sutter plans to hold open enrollment this fall, with coverage to begin Jan. 1.Sutter Health doctors and ...
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Rancho Cordova extends contract with Sheriffs Department for 3 years
Rancho Cordova will contract with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department for law enforcement services for at least three more years while continuing to evaluate other options for police services.The City Council decided Monday night to extend its agreement for services by the Sheriff's Department until June 30, 2016.Sheriff Scott Jones earlier this year initiated discussions about ...
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Solar firm opens center in Sacramento
Petaluma-based SPG Solar, a provider of utility and commercial solar power products and services, has opened its Technology and Training Center in Sacramento's Depot Park.The center will be used primarily to train construction crews, engineers and designers to assemble and install SPG Solar's SunSeeker single-axis tracker.That system "follows the sun" throughout the course of ...
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Girl tells jury she was tortured by her fathers fiancee while he was in prison
The torture happened upstairs, downstairs, on the stairs themselves, all over the house, the girl said. Hot spatulas slapped on the palms of her hands, a hot iron pierced into her back. She was kicked in the abdomen and head, had her ear pierced with a stapler, was smashed across the back with a frying pan and thrown down the stairs, she testified. But the girl returned time and again in her ...
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Sacramento County health officials investigate Hepatitis A outbreak
Sacramento County health authorities are investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A that may be associated with a frozen berry blend sold at Costco.A total of 106 cases have been reported in eight states, including California. Of those reported cases, two have been identified in Sacramento County.County authorities are recommending that if Costco customers have Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant ...
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Obituary Old-school newsman Joe Carroll ruffled feathers in Placer County
Joe Carroll, a veteran Auburn newsman and columnist who wrote stories and ruffled feathers in Placer County for many years, died June 14 of lung cancer, his family said. He was 81.Mr. Carroll, an old-school reporter with an irrepressible sense of humor, was a noted newspaperman, political aide and raconteur for six decades. Starting in 1953 at the San Francisco Examiner, his career took him from ...
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Input sought on agencys river-water contract
Federal officials are seeking public comments on a new contract allowing the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency to withdraw 10,000 acre-feet of water per year from the Sacramento River.The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has drafted the contract as an amendment to a water conveyance contract previously held by Conaway Ranch LLC. The so-called "settlement contract" is required under the terms ...
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Marcos Breton Immigration reform failure would hurt California and GOP official says
From a Sacramento office where he sits as president of the California Farm Bureau Federation, Paul Wenger is a key figure in the national immigration reform debate.A business-oriented Republican, Wenger is spending his days lobbying ideologues in his own party as immigration reform comes to a head in Congress.If House GOP members block reform, it wouldn't just be bad for California ...
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DMV to open new office to replace smaller one
The new state Department of Motor Vehicles office in Roseville is scheduled to open Monday, officials said. The new office, at 7200 Galilee Road, is replacing the agency's older downtown office on Harding Boulevard, which closed earlier this month. The Harding office became too small to serve the burgeoning south Placer County area. The closest nearby office is in Rocklin, at 5245 S. Grove ...
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Local officials to lobby for extreme-weather projects
Mayor Kevin Johnson and other local officials on Tuesday announced a new campaign that will lobby the state and federal governments to provide more funding to local infrastructure projects that defend cities from extreme weather.Johnson will serve as the chairman of the national Resilient Communities for America campaign. He is joined by more than 50 mayors and county leaders from around the ...
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Call Kurtis Company Claimed My Windows Were Different From The Warranty I Have
ELK GROVE (CBS13) -- An Elk Grove man has mildew growing in between his dual pane windows. When he filed a claim under his warranty, he got denied. It all has to do with what types of windows were put into the homes, in the nine year old subdivision called The Preserve in Elk Grove. He has a warranty in hand for his windows so how can they tell him, he has different windows? ';It looks ...
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Teen Accused Of Slaying Davis Couple Was Honored For Saving Father’s Life
DAVIS (CBS13) -- The teenager accused of brutally slaying an elderly couple in their Davis home was honored for saving his father's life four years ...
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Former Kings GM Geoff Petrie Says He Has No Ill Words For Maloofs
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- One day after the Sacramento Kings named his successor, former general manager Geoff Petrie opened up to CBS13. He praised the people who helped keep the team in Sacramento. "My hat is off to the entire coalition of people that pulled off one of the greatest off the court comebacks I've ever seen," Petrie ...
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Fairfield Motel 6 Scorched By Fast-Moving Grass Fire
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From Child Hero to Murder Suspect The Fall of a Davis Teen
DAVIS-- Hard to imagine that Daniel Marsh - who at age 12 was hailed as a hero - would be charged as an adult four years later, suspected in the brutal stabbing death of an elderly couple. "All of a sudden, he passed out and sort of flew back into his seat. I grabbed onto the steering wheel, directed it off to the side of the road," Daniel told FOX40 over four years ago. The Red ...
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Folsom Man Files Suit after Contracting Hepatitis from Berries
FOLSOM– Diego Durrell usually counts his smoothie routine as one of the healthiest parts of his day – but now he believes it almost killed him. ';I basically was staring death in the face with this illness. It was not fun. It was very, very scary,'; he said. Durrell is one of 118 people in eight states who, according to the Centers for Disease Control , contracted acute ...
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New figures show boost in gun sales across Sacramento region
*These represent the number of background checks done, based on Dealer Record of Sales transactions from licensed gun dealers in California. Numbers provided by the Department of ...
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22737 Pounds of Beef Recalled on E. Coli Fears
File photo. (CNN) — The United States Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Tuesday 22,737 pounds of ground beef products are being recalled on fears that they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The recall is categorized by the FSIS as ';Class I';: a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, ...
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Sacramento vulnerable to massive disaster
If a major earthquake were to occur tomorrow, Sacramento could potentially be devastated by massive flooding on-par with that seen in New Orleans during Katrina. The state’s major fresh water systems would be destroyed and 25 million would be without fresh water, while millions would lose their homes, but for all this, funding to upgrade the city’s levees is hard to come by.
When Hurricane Katrina barreled into US states along the Gulf Coast in 2005 it caused chaos and devastation in a part of the world considered among the most developed and stable. Read more
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