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Paintball players found the unclothed limb shortly after noon Sunday at Beer Can Beach near the intersection of Garden Highway and Lee Road west of Nicolaus. The leg was from a white male adult and had not been there for more than seven days, said Sutter...
Tags: Sutter County Sheriff's Department, Sheriff J. Paul Parker, paintball players, Sacramento County, human leg, sniffing dogs, San Jose, Sacramento California, Sacramento metropolitan area, Sutter, Search and rescue dog, Law Crime
A man was shot to death in Rancho Cordova behind a department store near a light rail station Saturday night. Sacramento County sheriff's deputies said the victim was found lying behind a Ross store near the light rail station at Zinfandel Drive and Folsom...
Tags: rail station, light rail, Sacramento County, Rancho Cordova, Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, Coroner, Unsolved murders, Law Crime, Folsom Boulevard, Rancho Cordova California, Sacramento County California, Sacramento California, Disaster Accident, Sacramento Regional Transit District, Sacramento metropolitan area, Zinfandel
On the walls are faded photos of the cuisine, a dive hallmark. The dining room has a drop ceiling that adds an aura of divey gloom. No one entering the restaurant is likely to use "mood" and "lighting" in the same breath. The chairs are black metal with...
Tags: Thai Thai Express, Authentic Thai, Thailand, Sacramento County, Bangkok
State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said the upcoming work, to start in January, will be harder than the grueling budget fights this year, "because the fact is we're starting at a very different place...Both the governor and...
Tags: tax increase, Legislative Analyst's Office, UC Berkeley, Sacramento County, Sacramento, Kansas state budget, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Public finance, Deficit, Economic policy, Social Issues, Politics
It's an oddly bucolic scene for urban West Oakland, where Carpenter lives. "It's very soothing," she said. "If you think about it, a chicken's life is very cool." With chickens, three goats, six rabbits and a beehive, 36-year-old Carpenter has created...
Tags: Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, Sacramento County, square feet, West Oakland, Switzerland, Zurich, Chickens as pets, Hospitality Recreation, Chicken, Poultry farming, Egg
The California First program will allow residents to finance expensive green energy and solar projects, and then repay the financing over 20 years through their property tax bills. Councilman Andrew Meredith said the statewide program will be an advantage...
Tags: Andrew Meredith, Galt City Council, property owners, Sacramento County, pilot program, efficiency project, California First, Galt, PILOT, Sacramento metropolitan area, Taxation, Sacramento California
The suit filed Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court says the budget-strapped county stopped reimbursing the UC Davis Medical Center and shifted the cost of care onto UC Davis. "It makes it very hard for us to keep our margin to keep our doors open and...
Tags: UC Davis Health System, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento County, Jim Hunt, medical bills, Davis, Sacramento California, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, University of California, Business Finance
Nearly a month after Mayor Kevin Johnson announced a plan for providing winter shelter for 269 homeless people, an autumn storm is looming and only a fraction of the promised beds are available. Maryhouse, a social services program for women and children,...
Tags: Michele Steeb, Sacramento County, winter shelter, task force, winter beds, sacramento area, Rancho Cordova, Poverty, Schizophrenia, Sacramento California, Rancho Cordova California, Tent city, Homelessness, Sacramento metropolitan area, Busking, Social Issues
The draft memorandum of understanding created by Elk Grove and Sacramento County executives doesn't give planning specifics for the 10,536 acres that Elk Grove seeks for an expanded sphere of influence its probable growth area. But it does spell out...
Tags: Elk Grove, Sacramento County, spread southward, Cosumnes River, Elk, Sacramento County California, Cosumnes Oaks High School, Sacramento metropolitan area, Sacramento California
Reader Joe Chasko asked about Wissemann Drive in Sacramento's Glenbrook area. Despite the extra "s" and "n," the name is pronounced like "wise man," according to Richard Godegast. Godegast's foster father, George Wissemann, was the nephew of the street's...
Tags: George Wissemann, Wissemann Drive, Walter J. Wissemann, Walter Wissemann, Steve Abbott, Sacramento County, Old Sacramento, California AA Whiskey, street whys, Sacramento