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UNION CITY - A young Dixon boy staying with family members in Union City died ...
RIO LINDA - A man is looking at some expected stiff charges including attempted ...
Many of you have written in to ask about or share photos of the halo effect ...
ARLINGTON, TX - Nelson Cruz homered twice, A.J. Pierzynski drove in three runs ...
SACRAMENTO, CA - Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive officially introduced ...
SACRAMENTO - Pete D'Alessandro has wanted a leading role in professional ...
Many of you have written in to ask about or share photos of the halo effect encircling the sun over Northern California Tuesday.
DETROIT - Chrysler says it has resolved its differences with the government and will recall older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs that could be at risk of a fuel tank fire.
ELK GROVE - Twenty-two firefighters from the Cosumnes and Sacramento Fire Departments headed to Mariposa County overnight to help battle the 1,600-acre Carstens Fire.
After years of deep budget cuts, several states are poised to boost higher education funding this year, often in exchange for a promise by public colleges and universities to freeze tuition.
MARIPOSA - Scores of additional homes have been evacuated, as firefighters continue to battle a wildfire near the main route into Yosemite National Park in the Sierra foothills.
MARIPOSA - Cal Fire says about 150 residences were threatened in the 900-acre Carstens Fire burning in the Sierra National Forest. Fire crews had 15 percent containment as of 2 p.m. Monday.
SACRAMENTO - Coroner's officials say a form of cancer, lymphoma, killed the serial killer known as the Night Stalker who terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s.
SAN RAFAE L - Jurors in the trial of a 79-year-old man charged with the decades-old slayings of four women in Northern California, two of them in Yuba County, wiped tears from their eyes as a prosecutor showed images of the victims' bodies and described how they were discovered.
FRESNO - Environmental and fishing groups have filed a lawsuit against a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly three-dozen inmate deaths and hundreds of hospitalizations have been blamed on the fungus, which causes an illness known as valley fever.
General Motors is recalling nearly 200,000 mid-sze SUVs because the master power door and window module in the driver's door can short out and catch fire.
SACRAMENTO - The Legislature's Democratic leaders touted their passage of a state budget ahead of their constitutional deadline, but no one was happier about it than Assemblyman Roger Hernandez.
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature has passed a major piece of the federal Affordable Care Act, opting to expand Medicaid to 1.4 million low-income Californians.
SACRAMENTO - Four individuals, three of them from Sacramento County, were arrested Thursday night on suspicion of running a sex trafficking ring.
Both houses of the Legislature send the bulk of the 2013-14 budget bills to the governor on Friday, with final passage of the spending plan expected just before the constitutional deadline.
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature has passed the state's massive spending plan amid sharp divisions over whether the Democratic budget will further the state's recovery or eventually return it to the multibillion-dollar deficits common during the recession.
WASHINGTON - Farm groups in California are lobbying for the Senate's immigration bill, which proposes bringing in thousands of new migrant workers and allowing undocumented employees already in the U.S. to become legal, permanent residents in about 10 years.
A new state budget with very little Democratic infighting, and the continuing buzz over an FBI raid at the state Capitol.
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Giants fan who suffered brain damage in a beating at Dodger Stadium has returned home after two years in hospitals and rehabilitation centers.
SAN DIEGO - A research firm says California home prices posted a 15th straight annual increase last month.
VALLEJO - Two Vallejo police officers acted in self-defense when they fatally shot one man and wounded another in September, Solano County District Attorney Donald du Bain said in a 15-page report Wednesday.
A new report concludes California's political redistricting largely succeeded two years ago, but was saddled with problems that could have been avoided.
SACRAMENTO - California schools will receive an infusion of more than $3.6 billion in extra money this year, much of it targeted to the neediest students as part of a redistribution plan pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
SANTA CLARA - A Sacramento man has been identified as the victim of a fatal accident Tuesday morning at the San Francisco 49ers' new under-construction stadium in Santa Clara.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office has released new details on the deaths of last week's Santa Monica gunman and his victims.
Burger King still has some serious explaining to do.
The accident, which involved a 9L-San Bruno bus and the F-Market and Wharves streetcar, happened around 11 a.m.
Demonstrating the power of rising home prices, the number of underwater homeowners has dropped below 10 million for the first time in more than at least three years.
WILLITS - A local woman bit into her Burger King hamburger and found a razor blade. Police have learned it wasn't a malicious act or a bad prank.
SACRAMENTO - Some state lawmakers accuse Walmart and other big businesses of paying employees such low wages the employees are forced to go Medi-Cal.
WASHINGTON - Backed into a corner by a series of court rulings, the Obama administration has agreed to let the Plan B One-Step brand of emergency contraception sell over the counter to anyone of any age.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - A 28-year firefighter assigned to a wildfire burning in the Modoc National Forest in northeast California was killed when part of a tree fell on him late Monday afternoon.
WASHINGTON - The Senate overcame a critical hurdle on Tuesday toward advancing the first immigration overhaul in a generation that would affect the nation's 11 million unauthorized immigrants, all U.S. employers and future legal immigrants.
VALLEJO - Vallejo, which emerged from bankruptcy two years ago, is trying a novel approach to setting part of its budget: having the public decide.
SACRAMENTO - California's largest public employee union says it has reached a tentative agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown on a new three-year contract that includes raises for 95,000 state workers.
SACRAMENTO - A just-released 2011 report looks at the mortality rates of 12 different procedures and conditions, including hip fractures, brain surgery and heart failure, at 332 California hospitals.