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Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson offered to pay $1,000 a month to one of three girls who had accused him of inappropriately touching her while she was involved in his St.

A 79-year-old man who's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's has disappeared from his Sacramento home for the second time in two weeks.

Residents of a South Sacramento apartment complex are waking up to a flooded parking lot.

The UC Davis Health System took its beef with Sacramento County over unpaid care for the indigent to court Thursday.

In this file photo taken Saturday April 25, 2009, Attorney General Jerry Brown is seen speaking at the California Democratic Party convention in Sacramento, Calif.

The clinics had been set to take place Friday at the Sam Pannell Community Center, 2450 Meadowview Road; and Saturday at Town and Country Lutheran Church, 4049 Marconi Avenue.

The rule goes into effect in 2011 for all new televisions. Edward Levy places a large flat-screen television in the back seat of his car after purchasing it Wednesday at a Best Buy Store in Sacramento, Calif.

A locomotive outfitted with a cleaner-burning diesel engine is being hailed as the first step in a new era of greener passenger train travel.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has given his film fans a boost by announcing his days as a politician are numbered - and he'll quit chasing public office next year.

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Reporting from Sacramento - California government is again beset with red ink, facing a nearly $21-billion deficit over the next year and half, according to a report released today by the state's chief budget analyst.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ California will face a nearly $21 billion budget gap over the next year and a half, extending a fiscal crisis that already has led to steep cuts to public schools, social services and health programs.

Power-hungry TVs will be banned from store shelves in California after state regulators adopted a first-in-the nation mandate to lower electricity demand.

The Capitol Corridor train service is now running "clean" trains between Oakland and the Capitol City.

A fugitive profiled 10 days ago on the "America's Most Wanted" TV show after allegedly killing three men in Berkeley earlier this year was arrested in a Natomas apartment complex Tuesday.

Authorities took a man into custody for questioning Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of a man found on a lawn in front of a Sacramento home late Saturday, a Sacramento police spokesman said.

Kevin Wayne Dunigan told the jury, "You're being deceived." Not only were police and prosecutors totally wrong for accusing him of the 1995 stabbing death of Gary Patrick Veirs, Dunigan said in his closing argument Tuesday, but he also had the cure for global warming and how to win the war in Afghanistan.

From Andy Furillo A judge today sentenced Tyrone Adam Palmer to 22 years and four months to life in prison for running a car with three teenaged girls off the road two years ago, killing one, leaving a second in a persistent vegetative state and severely injuring the third.

A cleaner era in train travel begins in the Bay Area today with the debut of an engine overhauled for $826,000 to burn cleaner than any other diesel passenger train in California.

Although it's illegal, the problem of breeding and training pit bulls for dog fighting remains a big problem throughout the country.