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Sacto 911 Fresno man identified by coroner in I-5 roll-over accident
The Sacramento County Coroner's office has released the name of a man killed in a roll-over accident on Interstate 5 south of Elk Grove. Andrew James Peterson, 24, of Fresno died from injuries suffered in the traffic accident. The California Highway Patrol said that Peterson was driving his 2005 Toyota Tundra northbound on I-5 north of Hood-Franklin Road when for unknown reasons he lost ...
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Physicians group labels obesity a disease
The American Medical Association adopts a new policy on obesity The change diagnoses nearly one-third of Americas with a medical condition AMA decision could increase funding for future research, doctor ...
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Old meets new in historic Sacramento K Street tour
830 K Street: The Montgomery Ward Building, located at 830 K Street, was built in 1936 next to the Kress Building. This photograph of the Montgomery Ward building was taken on March 14, 1942 on a rare snowy day in Sacramento. The only other snowfall in Sacramento happened three decades ...
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Mens Wearhouse ousts founder pitchman Zimmer
FILE - In this Thursday, May 6, 1999 file photo, George Zimmer, second from left, gestures to Andy Dolich prior to a meeting, in Oakland, Calif. Men's Wearhouse Inc. says it has dismissed Zimmer, its founder and executive chairman. In a terse release issued Wednesday, June 19, 2013, the company didn't give a reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men's Wearhouse from ...
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Evacuation Orders Partially Lifted in Carstens Fire
Crews on their way to fight the Carstens Fire. MARIPOSA COUNTY- As the Carstens Fire is becoming increasingly contained, firefighters lifted evacuation orders for one area affected Tuesday evening. Residents of the Lushmeadow area are allowed to return to their homes. Earlier Tuesday, investigators revealed that the fire was human caused. It all started from an unattended campfire June 16. ...
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Sacramento area winds calm with warming trend on the way
A halo encircles the sun in the Sacramento sky Tuesday afternoon, spurring many calls from curious observers to the National Weather Service office. Meteorologist Craig Shoemaker said the ring resulted from ice crystals in cirrus clouds that refracted light and created a mirror ...
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Feds again leave empty-handed in Hoffa hunt
The search in a field near Detroit for ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa ended Wednesday, and as with so many past attempts to find him, authorities walked away empty-handed, the FBI ...
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Hundreds more allowed back home in Calif. wildfire
Hundreds of additional residents have been allowed to return to their homes, as crews aided by lower temperatures and higher humidity made progress overnight against a wildfire near a main route into Yosemite National ...
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Men’s Wearhouse Fires the ‘I Guarantee It’ Guy
Image of George Zimmer from the Men’s Wearhouse website. NEW YORK (CNNMoney)- Men’s Wearhouse executive chairman George Zimmer has been ';terminated,'; the clothing retailer said on Wednesday. Zimmer opened the company’s first store in Houston in 1973. He’s been the bearded face of Men’s Wearhouse in television ads for years, famously promising men, ...
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Women to be Allowed in Special Forces Units
SACRAMENTO- A full 16 years after Demi Moore starred in ';G.I. Jane,'; the U.S. military has decided to follow suit. Tuesday, the Pentagon announced it will start allowing women to serve in elite special forces units. By 2015, exclusively male units like the Army Rangers and the Navy SEALs could have women among their ranks. Currently, the basic physical fitness standards in the ...
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Region Returning to Form According to Real Estate Data
SACRAMENTO- Good news for people who live or work, or want to live and work, in Sacramento County. ';On a year over year basis we are up about 9,000 jobs,'; said Barbara Hayes, the President and CEO of SACTO. Tuesday, the Sacramento-area commerce and trade organization announced PennyMac Loan Services is opening up in Sacramento and bringing 200 new jobs. Clear Capital, a real ...
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House panel starts rewrite of No Child Left Behind
WASHINGTON -; House lawmakers are beginning work on a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law that would give states more authority and Washington ...
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Sacramento police say baby left in running car at Taco Bell while mom apparently sleeps it off nearby
A baby was left in a parked vehicle at a Sacramento fast food restaurant not far from where officers said they found the child's passed out, apparently intoxicated mother. Customers having lunch at the Taco Bell near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Fruitridge Road on Monday saw the vehicle parked with the windows down, engine running and radio on. However, they did not initially ...
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Our values won Obama says in Berlin
U.S. President Barack Obama followed in the footsteps of past U.S. leaders with a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate that a senior administration official said would ask Russia to join the United States in slashing its supply of strategic nuclear ...
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Serial flasher suspected in Sacramentos Pocket area
Sacramento police officers released a picture of a person they'd like to identify who may be linked to a series of flashing incidents dating back to Oct. 23, 2011, all within a roughly one-square mile area of Sacramento's Pocket-Greenhaven ...
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Girl says she was tortured while dad was in prison
The Sacramento Bee says the girl testified Tuesday in the Sacramento trial of 37-year-old Duewa Lee, who's charged with a dozen felony counts. Her father, Wade Carter, was arrested for robbery two years ago and later sent to prison. The girl, who was 12 at the time, told jurors that over several months Lee burned her with an iron and hot spatulas, threw her down stairs, refused to let her ...
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Teen claims she was tortured by jailed fathers fiancee
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A 14-year-old Northern California girl has told a jury that she was burned, brutalized and tortured by her father's fiancee while he was in prison. The Sacramento Bee says the girl testified Tuesday in the Sacramento trial of 37-year-old Duewa Lee, who's charged with a dozen felony counts. Her father, Wade Carter, was arrested for robbery two years ago and ...
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Report 1 in 9 U.S. bridges are structurally deficient
More than one in nine bridges in the USA - at least 66,405, or 11% of the total - are structurally deficient, according to a new report. These are not rarely used, out-of-the way structures: Each day, Americans take 260 million trips over structurally deficient bridges, says the report from Transportation for America, a Washington, D.C.-based coalition that works to improve transportation. The ...
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Man Overturns Car Unsure of Where He Is
WILTON - A man possibly driving under the influence lost control of his car and overturned it early Wednesday morning in Wilton. The accident happened near Dillard Road and Cosumnes Road around 2 a.m. The man was taken to the hospital for minor injuries. CHP suspected he was DUI because he thought he was in Stockton, which is about 40 miles away from his ...
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Loaded rifle explosive device found during Butte Co. traffic stop
COHASSET, Calif. - A seemingly routine traffic stop resulted in a call out for the Butte County bomb squad Tuesday. Butte County Sheriff's Dept. Sergeant Mike Lydon said a deputy stopped Wayne Alan Smith on Coasset Rd. at approximately 5:50 p.m. During the stop, the deputy discovered a loaded rifle in the vehicle. The deputy then performed a complete search of the vehicle and found a ...
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Was TWA Flight 800 crash accidental
Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was ...
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San Jose suing Major League Baseball over A’s Stadium Issue
SAN JOSE - The 2013 Oakland A’s are young and thriving at the top of their division.The same cannot be said abouttheir stadium, the O.co Coliseum,which was constructed in 1966. Now the City of San Jose is suingMajor League Baseball and Commissioner Bud Selig for the right to builda new stadium for the A’s. ';Major League baseball has no right whatsoever to deny the tenth ...
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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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Afghanistan suspends security pact talks with U.S. amid Taliban peace process
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen following a security handover ceremony at a military academy outside Kabul June 18, ...
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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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