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1 hr ago | USA Today

10-year-old back home after being shot 5 times

A California boy who was shot five times while playing outside during a birthday party has returned home after spending a month in a hospital.

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Related Topix: North Highlands, CA

4 hrs ago | SFGate

Pipe thru windshield kills man

A man driving on Interstate 580 near Livermore was killed Wednesday when a metal pipe crashed through his windshield and hit him in the jaw, the California Highway Patrol said.

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Related Topix: Livermore, CA

8 hrs ago | Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Driver impaled by metal rod in Northern Calif.

The California Highway Patrol is looking for witnesses, as it investigates the death of a man who was impaled by a metal rod while driving on Interstate 580 around Livermore.

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Related Topix: Sacramento, CA

14 hrs ago | Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Higher county water bills may be on tap

Water rates in Sacramento County would go up 5.6 percent in August and another 3.8 percent next year under a proposal supervisors will consider in July.

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Related Topix: Elk Grove, CA, Rancho Cordova, CA, Vineyard, CA

Tue May 21, 2013

Sacramento Today

Alcohol Ban Enforcement and Price Hikes for Memorial Day Weekend

Entrance fees to Sacramento County Regional Parks will increase during the Memorial Day weekend.

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Business Journal

County extends road to open up land around Mather

Mather Airport continues to attract commerce and Sacramento County is hoping to attract even more around the former Air Force base by extending Fremoyer Street through undeveloped land nearby.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, Rancho Cordova, CA

Mon May 20, 2013

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Judge rules workers at UC hospitals can strike

A judge affirmed on Monday that some workers at the five largest University of California medical centers can go on a planned two-day strike starting Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Nursing, Medicine

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

10-year-old North Highlands girl gunned down watching TV with family

A 10-year-old girl was shot to death Saturday night while watching TV in the living room of her North Highlands home, Sacramento county sheriff's investigators said Sunday.

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Related Topix: North Highlands, CA, Sacramento, CA

CNN

What you don't know about terrorism

The bombings in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, serve as a cruel reminder that the U.S. has seen other terror attacks on home soil.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Photography, Arts, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Opinion

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Sacto 911: Suspected Carmichael pharmacy robber recovers enough to be booked

A man shot last week when he allegedly attempted to rob a Carmichael pharmacy at gunpoint has been cleared to be booked into Sacramento County Jail.

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Related Topix: Carmichael, CA, Sacramento, CA

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Water line break affects Rio Cosumnes inmates

A burst water line was discovered on the grounds of the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove on Saturday, affecting a few hundred inmates being held in some of the facility's housing units.

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Related Topix: Elk Grove, CA, Sacramento, CA

The Miami Herald

Gunmen shoot into Calif. home, 10-year-old killed

Authorities were searching for at least two gunmen who walked up to the door of a Northern California home and opened fire, killing a 10-year-old girl and injuring her parents.

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Related Topix: Herald, CA

The Las Vegas Sun

Gunmen shoot into Calif. home, 10-year-old killed

Authorities were searching for at least two gunmen who walked up to the door of a Northern California home and opened fire, killing a 10-year-old girl and injuring her parents.

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Sun May 19, 2013

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Sacto 911: Coroner ID's 27-year-old homicide victim in south Sacramento

The 27-year-old man who was shot to death early Saturday at the 4800 block of Baker Avenue has been identified as Atelea Matini Kaihea, a Pacific Islander, according to Sacramento County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt.

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Related Topix: Sacramento, CA

KCRA-TV Sacramento

Girl, 10, killed in North Highlands shooting

A girl was killed and her parents were injured in a shooting in Sacramento on Saturday night, sheriff's deputies said.

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Related Topix: North Highlands, CA, Sacramento, CA

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Program at Mather aids former Sacramento County foster kids

By the time he left foster care, Willis Mucelroy estimates, he had lived in 30 foster homes across the Central Valley.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, US Military, Mather Air Force Base, US Air Force, Sacramento, CA

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

The Public Eye: Expert notes CPS missteps before Sacramento child hatchet murder

Three weeks before he allegedly murdered his 9-year-old son with a hatchet, Phillip Raymond Hernandez was the subject of a complaint to Sacramento County Child Protective Services alleging that he neglected his two boys.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Sacramento, CA, Drugs

Fri May 17, 2013

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Sacto 911: Man arrested in kidnapping of girl from S. Sacramento street

A man previously convicted of sex offenses has been arrested in connection with the mid-day abduction of a 7-year-old girl on a south Sacramento street nearly a week ago.

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Related Topix: Sacramento, CA

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Unemployment plunges in Sacramento; California rate falls to 9 percent

The Sacramento area's unemployment rate plunged to 8.3 percent in April from a revised 9.2 percent in March, a decline that surpassed encouraging statewide numbers, according to state figures released today.

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Related Topix: 9, Sacramento, CA, El Dorado County, CA

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Arden Fair incident spurs reminder on availability of emergency child care

A working mom who couldn't find child care left her 4-year-old unattended in a car while she worked at night this week, officials said.

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Related Topix: Sacramento, CA, Arden-Arcade, CA, Rancho Cordova, CA