- Lynx use 3-pointers to defeat Sacramento
- Sacramento River Cats Earn 5-4 Win ver Fresno Grizzlies
- Donor’s Views on Race Spark utcry ver Parkland
- Sacramento-area transit makes cuts as revenue falls
- California fficials Fear Abduction Case May Hurt Efforts on Parole
- A $54 billion water bill
- Slow Food Sacramento hosts tomato tasting

Lynx use 3-pointers to defeat Sacramento
The Associated Press
And Minnesota needs to handle late-game situations a little better. But after six consecutive losses the Minnesota coach wasn’t in position to quibble about any sort of victory. And even though Friday night’s 100-95 win over Sacramento featured several anxious moments at the end it was a victory. “I’m just grateful for a win to be honest” Gillom said. It was a crucial one for the Lynx (12-16) as they move a game ahead of San Antonio in the race for the final Western Conference playoff spot. Getting that lead however required the Lynx putting together the best long-range shooting performance in WNBA history. The 16 3-pointers set an all-time WNBA record for 3-pointers in a regulation game and equaled the total Connecticut recorded in a double overtime game in 2007.

Sacramento River Cats Earn 5-4 Win ver Fresno Grizzlies
MLN – The Raw Feed
com -WEST SACRAMENT Calif. – Top prospect Brett Wallace hit a game-winning single in the ninth inning for a 5-4 River Cats victory Sunday afternoon over the rival Fresno Grizzlies. Anthony Recker hit a solo homer to open up Sacramento’s three-run seventh inning that gave the River Cats a 4-3 lead before 13369 fans at Raley Field. Fresno’s Jake Wald scored on a wild pitch by Sacramento reliever Sam Demel to tie the game at 4-4 in the top of the ninth. Aaron Cunningham singled to open the bottom of the ninth moved to second on Tommy Everidge’s single and scored on Wallace’s hit to right field. Sacramento which clinched its eighth PCL South Division title in 10 years on Thursday finished its nine-game homestand at 4-5.

Donor’s Views on Race Spark utcry ver Parkland
Wall Street Journal
To be sure though many other institutions named for figures with similar views haven’t come under such vocal criticism. Eugenics has become a particular strike against once-respected historical figures in California. Last year community groups persuaded lawmakers to strip the name of Charles M. Goethe a prominent Sacramento-area banker in the early 1900s and founder of the Eugenics Society of Northern California from a large Sacramento County park; it is now River Bend Park. In 2007 Sacramento’s school board struck Mr. Goethe’s name from a middle school and renamed it after Rosa Parks.

Sacramento-area transit makes cuts as revenue falls
Sacramento Bee
Elk Grove commuters face tough news at the bus stop too. The city’s e-tran service will drop 19 runs starting Tuesday and shut down weekend service Saturday – just months after raising fares. This week’s moves by two of Sacramento’s major commute carriers are clear signs: Transit in California is in trouble. A year after high gas prices drove tens of thousands of commuters out of cars and onto buses and rail a bad economy is causing dozens of agencies to bandage budgets with fare hikes and service cuts. The cutbacks have exposed the state’s transit financing system as a flawed patchwork prompting calls for change. “Just when more people need transit you have less money to operate it” said Larry Greene the Sacramento region’s air quality chief. “We have to fix this.

California fficials Fear Abduction Case May Hurt Efforts on Parole
New York Times
2 billion by reducing the state prison population by 27000 through an early parole program. The State Senate passed its version of the legislation this month. But now some corrections reform advocates in Sacramento including Gov.
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A $54 billion water bill
San Francisco Chronicle
That makes it one of the few state issues to rival the importance of our busted budget right now. For six months the Legislature has been working on a package of bills that would drastically shift the way Californians use and receive water. At the same time a comprehensive Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta restoration and water plan supported by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger just got an eye-popping price tag: at least $23 billion and maybe as much as $54 billion.

Slow Food Sacramento hosts tomato tasting
The Sacramento Press
The luncheon was organized around a fruit whose flavors reach a peak in the summer season: the tomato. Event organizer and member of Slow Food Sacramento chapter member Jim Mills told the group that "a tomato is not always a tomato" and that the fruit should really only be enjoyed fresh during its season which ranges from about June 15 through the end of ctober. Grange Restaurant’s head chef.

- California insurance commissioner to fight selling part of workers …
- Sacramento area lands $6.5M in foreclosure aid
- Sacramento’s check-writing season is in full swing
- Rewrite Sacramento’s pay-to-play rules
- Chicken wing restaurants expand in Sacramento
- Sacramento Swings Tax Ax

California insurance commissioner to fight selling part of workers …
Los Angeles Times
Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature approved the proposed sale to raise money to partially plug a $24-billion hole in the state budget. But Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner vowed to fight it. “This is bad politics; it’s illegal and I’m going to stop it” said the wealthy former tech entrepreneur from Silicon Valley who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 2010.
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Sacramento area lands $6.5M in foreclosure aid
Bizjournals.com
us Digg This Sacramento area cities and counties will receive $6. 5 million under a federal neighborhood stabilization program designated for programs to alleviate problems associated with the foreclosure crisis. The state Department of Housing and Community Development announced the grants Thursday. The total award statewide is $92.

Sacramento’s check-writing season is in full swing
Los Angeles Times
The check-collecting soared Wednesday when at least 18 sitting legislators had fundraisers scheduled mostly at Capitol-area watering holes. All told lawmakers will hold more than 40 fundraising events this week and 30 next week. The parade will continue until Sept. 11 the final deadline for legislation to pass.

Rewrite Sacramento’s pay-to-play rules
San Francisco Chronicle
But billion-dollar industries haven’t been asked to sacrifice a single penny to get the state back on track. California voters know it’s no coincidence that these industries are among the largest donors to campaign committees controlled by elected officials and candidates for office. In one of the most egregious examples of Sacramento’s pay-to-play rules the governor stymied his own proposal for an oil extraction tax – a proposal widely supported by voters – after Chevron Corp. donated $500000 to his special election committee. Attempts to increase the sales tax on cigarettes were also stymied after Philip Morris gave $350000. And who knows what other budget fixes the public might have supported that were killed in the Legislature after the more than $120 million given to California legislative candidates in the 2008 election cycle alone. It’s obscene but perfectly legal.

Chicken wing restaurants expand in Sacramento
Sacramento Bee
That’s all we do” said Andy Howard executive vice president of Wingstop Restaurants Inc. The Texas-based restaurant chain has grown five times in size since 2003 and plans to open 10 more stores in the Sacramento region. There are already six local stores and at least two more are expected to open this year in West Sacramento and the Arden area. With nearly 90 stores in California Wingstop is eyeing the Golden State as its next big expansion front since the company has already blanketed Texas with 150 stores Howard said. Nationwide there will be 60 new stores this year adding to 425 stores in 28 states. It is a remarkable growth spurt that is bounding ahead even in an economic downturn Howard said probably because of a simple format and a value-priced menu that appeals to recession-weary diners. Chicken wings a peculiar but uniquely American food appeal largely to a male 20- and 30-something customer Howard said.

Sacramento Swings Tax Ax
NBC San Diego
That’s because the Franchise Tax Board has bumped them into higher tax brackets by lowering the threshhold of each of six state income brackets. Because the board has ratcheted back on certain deductions every taxpayer will cough up more to Sacramento — whether or not they’re in a new bracket or their incomes are unchanged. "It’s just sickening" says Noemi Flores who owns and operates the Antique Row Cafe In Lemon Grove with her mother and brother. "It’s like a wound that’s already bleeding. They’re just making it bigger for all those families. " $(document).

- Sacramento’s check-writing season is in full swing
- CHP officers fatally shoot man near Sacramento after high-speed chase
- Selected recent California newspaper editorials
- Diocese of Sacramento to launch ‘Catholics Come Home’ campaign
- Bandit Hits Sacramento Ice Cream Shops
- Sacramento mayor at odds with city attorney’s directive

Sacramento’s check-writing season is in full swing
Los Angeles Times
The check-collecting soared Wednesday when at least 18 sitting legislators had fundraisers scheduled mostly at Capitol-area watering holes. All told lawmakers will hold more than 40 fundraising events this week and 30 next week. The parade will continue until Sept. 11 the final deadline for legislation to pass.

CHP officers fatally shoot man near Sacramento after high-speed chase
Los Angeles Times
Now | Los Angeles Times. fficers attempted to pull over a white truck in Stockton about.
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Selected recent California newspaper editorials
San Jose Mercury News
As such we need a new word—and a new attitude—to deal with this region’s new reality: water shortage is the new normal and it’s time to adjust accordingly. State leaders have begun hearings on legislation to resolve California’s water crisis. Solutions could include building a canal to carry water around the ecologically fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and mandates that Californians reduce water consumption. Balancing the water claims of farmers fishermen environmentalists households and industrial users is about as easy as negotiating a Middle East peace agreement. Yet this difficult compromise must be reached. The status quo is unacceptable. The situation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has only worsened in the last few years and the effects have been felt down the state.

Diocese of Sacramento to launch ‘Catholics Come Home’ campaign
Catholic News Agency
catholicnewsagency. – Hoping to encourage at least 100000 non-practicing Catholics to return to church the Diocese of Sacramento is preparing a “come home” advertising campaign for this December and January. At Mass over the next several weeks church leaders will outline the program and ask parishioners to help pay for the ads.

Bandit Hits Sacramento Ice Cream Shops
News10.net
The robber first struck a yogurt shop on the 1300 block of Florin Road at 8:40 the evening of Aug. Norm Leong with the Sacramento Police Department. The woman displayed a gun in demanding money from an employee before fleeing on foot Leong said.

Sacramento mayor at odds with city attorney’s directive
Sacramento Bee
27 2009 – 12:00 am| Page 1A No one on the Sacramento City Council can remember anything like it: the city attorney directing the mayor to recuse himself from a council matter – and the mayor saying thanks but no thanks. In the most public disagreement to date between two of the city’s most powerful figures Mayor Kevin Johnson ignored an order by City Attorney Eileen Teichert to remove himself from Tuesday night’s council discussion regarding Johnson’s strong-mayor proposal. The issue was not whether Johnson should be allowed to vote on all matters regarding his proposal – a June 2010 ballot measure that if approved would significantly strengthen his powers as mayor. Teichert said that at the council’s request she is currently examining whether Johnson should have been involved in the vote setting the election date. The issue Tuesday focused on conflict of interest laws which generally center on whether an elected official has a direct financial stake in the outcome of a vote.

- A’s select Tomko from Sacramento
- Sacramento police officer arrested on suspicion of drunk driving
- Sacramento seeks input on K Street

A’s select Tomko from Sacramento
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Tomko was in the Yankees system going 1-0 with a 0. 64 earned run average with New York’s Triple-A club before heading up to the Bronx where he had a 1-2 mark with a 5. 23 ERA in 15 relief appearances. He was designated for assignment on July 21 released on July 29 and signed a minor-league deal with the A’s on August 5.

Sacramento police officer arrested on suspicion of drunk driving
Sacramento Bee
Hughes’ vehicle was noticed in a traffic lane at Hazel Avenue and Piedra Way in rangevale on Saturday afternoon said CHP officer Lizz Dutton. Hughes was slumped over the steering wheel. CHP officers suspected Hughes had been drinking and arrested him Dutton said.
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Sacramento seeks input on K Street
Bizjournals.com
The departments of transportation and economic development invite residents to complete a Web-based survey on a K Street Vehicle Traffic Study. The study examines options for incorporating vehicle traffic to K Street between Eighth and 12th streets. The city also is considering a pilot project to open two blocks of K Street — either between Eighth and 10th or between 10th and 12th — to vehicles. Survey results will be used to gauge what people think about the idea of bringing cars and trucks back to this long-time pedestrian mall and what features would be most important if the city went forward with a trial conversion of the mall.

- Calif. man convicted for taking out hit on father
- Sacramento holds off ‘Birds
- Legislators return to discord and a full agenda
- Sacramento locavores will love Fairfield California’s Suisun …
- Lawsuit seeks protection of Sacramento splittail
- Easy guide to contributing to The Sacramento Press

Calif. man convicted for taking out hit on father
San Jose Mercury News
—A 22-year-old Sacramento man who paid hitmen to gun down his father has been convicted of first-degree murder. Vardan Abramyan was convicted Friday in Sacramento Superior Court. He faces life in prison. Abramyan described his father as a physical financial and psychological brute who had terrorized him his sisters and mother for more than a decade. He told jurors at his monthlong trial that he had no choice but to pay two hitmen $4000 to kill his father 45-year-old Norik Abramyan.

Sacramento holds off ‘Birds
urSports Central (press release)
The River Cats claimed the lead two pitches into the game when Eric Patterson hit his 12th home run of the year and never looked back. Sacramento led 6-1 going into the eighth inning when Memphis rallied for a single run on a Daniel Descalso RBI-single. The Redbirds had two runners on base and the tying run at the plate in the ninth when Jerry Blevins struck out Jon Jay to end the game. Eric Munson led the River Cats with three RBI including a two-run homer.

Legislators return to discord and a full agenda
Los Angeles Times
Their agenda includes upgrading California’s water system crafting a bigger move to renewable energy and reducing crowding in prisons. But Democrats’ and Republicans’ starkly different ideas about how to meet those goals — along with lingering budget issues — could undermine their ability to get big things done. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said he hopes to “build on some positive achievements instead of just trying to hold off disaster. ” But with so much unfinished business some involving partisan disputes that have festered for years Steinberg and other leaders are already talking about not completing work on key parts of their agenda until 2010.

Sacramento locavores will love Fairfield California’s Suisun …
Examiner.com
If you have never visited this lovely valley you won’t believe your eyes ears and taste buds. "Thank you we got to learn more about local produce and wine. ” “Glad you’re offering the Suisun Valley’s bounty to the public in such a delightful way. ” “Excellent way to promote local produce.
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Lawsuit seeks protection of Sacramento splittail
Central Valley Business Times
centralvalleybusinesstimes. The “Sacramento splittail” should be restored to the federal endangered species list says the suit filed Thursday in U. District Court in San Francisco by the Center for Biological Diversity. The lawsuit says the George W.

Easy guide to contributing to The Sacramento Press
The Sacramento Press
ur website is free and open to the public. To become a community contributor all you have to do is:1. Sign up by clicking the button at the top of the page.

- Interior Dept.: Calif water a national priority
- McClatchy extends wage freeze
- Brunson leads Monarchs in win over Silver Stars
- Fugitive Sex ffender Returned To Sacramento
- FHS football to play in 1st Annual West Coast Classic in Sacramento
- Lawsuits are the latest roadblock for California budget

Interior Dept.: Calif water a national priority
The Associated Press
: Calif water a national priorityBy GARANCE BURKE(AP)–29 minutes agoSACRAMENT Calif. — Top bama administration officials say fixing California’s ongoing water crisis is a national priority akin to restoring Florida’s Everglades or the Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast. Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes says the administration plans to host a meeting in Washington next month designed to spur solutions. Hayes made the announcement while in Sacramento Wednesday to discuss federal efforts to free up water for irrigation and drinking water supplies as the state experiences its third year of drought. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will hold a similar meeting in September about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The large freshwater estuary supplies drinking water to two-thirds of Californians and serves as one of the most important wildlife habitats on the West Coast.

McClatchy extends wage freeze
Bizjournals.com
will extend its companywide pay freeze until at least the end of the year ending hope by employees that pay increases would resume next month. The Sacramento-based company — publisher of the Wichita Eagle and 29 other daily newspapers — announced a one-year companywide pay freeze in September. McClatchy treasurer Elaine Lintecum said the pay freeze would continue through December according to a report in the Kansas City Business Journal a sister publication to the Wichita Business Journal. McClatchy like most newspaper publishers is battling declining revenue and fewer print subscribers especially during the 20-month-old recession. Last month the nation’s third-largest newspaper chain reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings — $42. 2 million compared to $19.

Brunson leads Monarchs in win over Silver Stars
The Associated Press
Nicole Powell added 17 points for the Monarchs (6-17). Scholanda Robinson scored 13 points Kara Lawson had 12 and Ticha Penicheiro added 11 assists. Brunson who returned to the lineup on Saturday after missing the previous seven games with a right knee strain hit 8 of 10 shots as Sacramento shot 56 percent from the field. Sophia Young scored 14 points and Vickie Johnson had 12 to lead the Silver Stars (10-12) who have lost four of their last six and squandered a chance to move into a tie with Minnesota for third place in the Western Conference.

Fugitive Sex ffender Returned To Sacramento
KCRA.com
– A fugitive registered sex offender and convicted child molester has been returned to California after his capture in Minnesota the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department says. Wednesday August 12 2009.

FHS football to play in 1st Annual West Coast Classic in Sacramento
Reno Gazette Journal
5 at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento. In that game Fernley will play a California Interscholastic Federation Section champion in Whitney High of Rocklin (east of Sacramento on I-80) with that game expected to open the day with a 1 p. This first-annual one-day high school varsity football showcase will feature some of the top teams in northern California along with a top team from northern Nevada in Fernley with coach Jeff Knutson expecting to field one of the best teams in school history.
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Lawsuits are the latest roadblock for California budget
Los Angeles Times
YSArticleContent { background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:18px;line-height:16px; }–>Lawsuits are the latest roadblock for California budgetLitigators go to court to undo cuts made by legislators and the governor. The state is spending billions of dollars fighting the lawsuits and dealing with increasingly unfavorable rulings. By Evan Halper August 10 2009Reporting from Sacramento — Well-connected lobbyists political pressure and a good turnout at committee hearings used to be the special interest recipe for protecting turf in the state budget. Now a potent new ingredient is being increasingly thrown into the mix: top-shelf litigators. Lawyers are being drafted in droves to unravel spending plans passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor. The goal of these litigators is to get back money their clients lost in the budget process. They are havingconsiderable success winning one lawsuit after another costing the state billions of dollars and throwing California’s budget process into further tumult.

- A’s beat: Patterson Tomko in Sacramento
- Squeaky Fromme soon out of prison in Ford case
- Donaldson’s Seattle plan borrows from Sacramento mayor’s playbook
- Calif. nurses protest lack of swine flu equipment
- Sacramento Valley Conservancy earns accreditation

A’s beat: Patterson Tomko in Sacramento
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –> To clear a roster spot for pitcher Chad Reineke who made his A’s debut Wednesday night the A’s optioned Patterson to Triple-A Sacramento. 182 (4-for-22) in 10 games after his July 24 promotion and didn’t get much of a chance in center field partly because of Rajai Davis’ hot bat. Tomko 36 was signed to a minor-league deal and assigned to Sacramento for insurance purposes. The ex-Giant was 1-2 with a 5.
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Squeaky Fromme soon out of prison in Ford case
San Francisco Chronicle
And I’m in love with love so I’m in love with Charlie. When Manson was serving time in Folsom Prison she moved to nearby Sacramento where she tried to interest reporters in her cause. 5 1975 as Ford was on his way to address the California Legislature Fromme was in the crowd wearing a red dress turban and purse. As Ford drew near Fromme pulled a. 45-caliber semiautomatic pistol aimed it at the president and pulled the trigger.

Donaldson’s Seattle plan borrows from Sacramento mayor’s playbook
Seattle Post Intelligencer
PTDonaldson’s Seattle plan borrows from Sacramento mayor’s playbookBy JHNATHN FITZPATRICKSPECIAL T SEATTLEPI. CMIn 2008 Sacramento mayoral candidate Kevin Johnson released his policy ‘Action.

Calif. nurses protest lack of swine flu equipment
The Associated Press
nurses protest lack of swine flu equipmentBy SHAYA TAYEFE MHAJER(AP)–1 day agoLS ANGELES — A union says some California hospitals aren’t adequately protecting nurses from swine flu. The California Nurses Association plans to protest Wednesday in San Francisco in the wake of a Sacramento nurse’s swine flu death last month. The union wants hospitals to provide better masks equipment and protocol to protect nurses from further sickness. The union says nurses across the state are reporting difficulties getting the masks recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and having them properly fitted to be airtight. The protest comes less than three weeks after Sacramento nurse Karen Ann Hays died after contracting swine flu. The 51-year-old marathoner’s death is the first among California health care workers related to sickness.

Sacramento Valley Conservancy earns accreditation
Bizjournals.com
The status is a mark of distinction in land conservation and indicates the organization meets national standards for excellence upholds the public trust and ensures that conservation efforts are permanent. “The accreditation seal lets the public know that the accredited land trust has undergone extensive external review of the governance and management of its organization and the systems and policies it uses to protect land” Land Trust Accreditation Commission executive director Tammara Van Ryn said in a news release. The commission is an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance. The Sacramento Valley Conservancy has protected more than 10000 acres of heritage land since 1990 for farming wildlife recreation and flood safety.

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- Sacramento’s raid on state’s Main Streets

Sacramento man part of Iran drama
Sacramento Bee
3 2009 – 12:00 am| Page 2B Sacramento native Shon Meckfessel traveling in northern Iraq didn’t go on an ill-fated hike because he had a cold – a decision that prevented him from wandering into Iran where three of his friends were reportedly detained. The Swiss Embassy in Tehran Iran was working Sunday to learn more about the Americans’ fate through its contacts with the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Nadine livieri said. Switzerland represents U.

Sacramento 2 Portland 1: Another ninth-inning homer extends skid …
regonLive.com
open(urlwinnameoptions) newwin. The Sacramento River Cats eked out a 2-1 win over Portland on Sunday afternoon by hitting a tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning for the second day in a row. The home run extended the Beavers’ season-long losing streak to six games and kept interim manager Gary Jones looking for his first win since taking over for Randy Ready late Thursday. It also negated the pitching efforts of Beavers starter Wade LeBlanc and relievers Scott Patterson and Ryan Webb who combined to allow one run and four hits in eight innings. Jones held a closed-door meeting with his new team after the loss. “It’s easy to go out and just go through the motions but they’ve played hard and that’s what it’s going to take” he said.
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Sacramento’s raid on state’s Main Streets
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>Lafayette Mayor Don Tatzin was more than a little irritated at seeing photos of state legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger grinning and slapping each other on the back after finishing their grueling all-night sessions to balance the state budget. Tatzin knew that Sacramento’s “solution” would require his city of 24000 to deal with the $1. 7 million the state stole in redevelopment funds and property tax revenue.

- Sacramento’s raid on state’s Main Streets
- Sacramento-area nurse is first health care worker swine flu death …
- Woman Dies in Sacramento Crash
- Sacramento police say man blew up cat

Sacramento’s raid on state’s Main Streets
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>Lafayette Mayor Don Tatzin was more than a little irritated at seeing photos of state legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger grinning and slapping each other on the back after finishing their grueling all-night sessions to balance the state budget. Tatzin knew that Sacramento’s “solution” would require his city of 24000 to deal with the $1. 7 million the state stole in redevelopment funds and property tax revenue.

Sacramento-area nurse is first health care worker swine flu death …
San Jose Mercury News
Mercy San Juan Medical Center spokesman Bryan Gardner said officials at the Carmichael hospital do not know if 51-year-old Karen Ann Hays contracted the virus on the job. Family members described her as fit and athletic. In the San Francisco Bay area two new mothers died from the virus also known as H1N1 shortly after giving birth.
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Woman Dies in Sacramento Crash
News10.net
A witness said the car was traveling westbound on Fair aks Blvd. east of Watt Avenue just before 7 a. Sunday when the crash happened CHP spokesman Todd Vandlindt said.

Sacramento police say man blew up cat
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>(07-30) 10:24 PDT Sacramento Calif. (AP) –Sacramento police have arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with the death of a cat killed with explosives.

- Schwarzenegger’s approval numbers hit an all-time low
- Second boater found dead is identified
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Schwarzenegger’s approval numbers hit an all-time low
San Jose Mercury News
Arnold Schwarzenegger has sunk to an all-time low among Californians in a new survey that also finds that residents while strongly in favor of environmental regulations want to slow down on environmental reforms while the economy is still taking a beating. Schwarzenegger’s job approval rating is now at 28 percent according to a poll by the Public Policy Institute of California comparable to the ratings faced by former Gov. Gray Davis before he was recalled in 2003. The poll of 2501 adults was taken July 7-21 at the height of budget negotiations but before the $26 billion deficit had been resolved. Ironically Schwarzenegger had attempted to appeal to populist sentiment by refusing.

Second boater found dead is identified
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –> Soeur and Songkram Sangcharoon 35 of Antelope (Sacramento County) died after their fishing boat took on water early Friday authorities said. Sangcharoon’s body was recovered about 7:30 a. less than six hours after someone reported seeing a man in the water said Jimmy Lee a Contra Costa County sheriff’s spokesman. An autopsy determined that Sangcharoon had drowned Lee said.
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Sacramento police say man blew up cat
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>(07-30) 10:24 PDT Sacramento Calif. (AP) –Sacramento police have arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with the death of a cat killed with explosives.

Diogu still seeking right NBA fit
USA Today
“We feel Ike’s got the talent the capabilities and over his career he’s demonstrated when he’s played minutes that he produces and we feel he’ll be in a situation where we will see that. We need that type of production. For Bower the key evidence included Diogu’s performance late last season for Sacramento after Kings center Spencer Hawes went out with a left knee injury at Denver. Diogu wound up playing 41 minutes against the Nuggets finishing with 32 points and 11 rebounds. He played 40 minutes two nights later in the Kings’ regular season finale at Minnesota scoring 28 and grabbing 13 rebounds. Those performances showed “what happens when you give me an opportunity to showcase what I can do” Diogu asserted. Diogu said his agent Thaddeus Foucher has been in contact with a half dozen other teams since he became a free agent this summer.

fficials: Heroin busts show California problem
The Associated Press
— Recent large heroin seizures show a resurgence of the drug in California unseen since the early 1970s law enforcement officials said Thursday. The flood of black tar heroin into the San Francisco area has driven down prices from as much as $500 an ounce to about $140 an ounce Acting U. Attorney Lawrence Brown said in Sacramento while announcing the latest drug ring takedown. “Heroin is making a comeback in the Bay Area” San Francisco Police Capt.

akland Athletics Recall Cliff Pennington from the Sacramento …
MLN – The Raw Feed
– The akland A’srecalled infielder Cliff Pennington from Triple-A Sacramentothe club announced today. Pennington takes the roster spot of shortstop rlando Cabrera who was traded to Minnesota earlier today. Pennington joins the A’s for the first time this year after hitting. 264 with three home runs and 40 RBI in 99 games with Sacramento. He was tied for the River Cats team lead in walks (45) and ranked second in hits (95) doubles (22) and stolen bases (27).