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An unusual spate of nearly three dozen fires in six days has sparked the interest - and concern - of local arson investigators racing to find those responsible before the next blaze is ignited.

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Nearly a year and a half after he was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife's lover, Chu Vue finally got his chance Tuesday to tell his story in his own defense.

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All the chatter about when the Sacramento City Council should allow public comment at its weekly meetings is still going on.

Something is killing the fish at Sacramento's Southside Park. Witnesses say over the Labor Day holiday weekend, dozens of fish turned up dead along the shore of the park's pond.

The former Sacramento County sheriff's deputy charged with arranging the murder of his wife's lover offered a brief history of the Hmong people as he took the witness stand Tuesday.

Like most large cities, Sacramento has struggled to cope with street gangs. From January 2008 through June 2010, Sacramento police took 1,689 reports of suspected gang activity, according to the department's crime report database .

A Sacramento Superior Court jury voted today that Glenn Wade Jennings should be sentenced to death for the June 2, 2004, liquor store robbery murder of Kulwant Sufi.

In Sacramento Superior Court, jurors are sorting through a complex trial that pits the Sacramento City Unified School District against the consultant and the lawyers who helped the district create a now-discredited pension system 10 years ago.

More suspicious fires were reported in the Sacramento area overnight, adding to a series of suspected arsons over the past week.

An $11,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a second suspect involved in a robbery and fatal pharmacy shooting Thursday in North Highlands.

Sacramento-area temperatures will remain in the mid-90s today as a low pressure system from the Gulf of Alaska is taking its time pushing into the region.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown on Monday criticized campaign spending of GOP rival Meg Whitman, seeking to identify with workers during the Labor Day Picnic at Sacramento's Land Park.

A structure located in North Highlands was one of several to fall victim to a string of related arson incidents over Labor Day weekend.

A fire damaged a home early Monday in Sacramento's Florin area. The blaze, located on Diana Way, was reported at about 2 a.m. The family that lives there was not home at the time of the blaze.

A 19-year-old man was shot in the abdomen Sunday afternoon while sitting in a car in a parking lot on the corner of Club Center Drive and Natomas Boulevard in North Natomas, according to police.

The historic streets of Old Sacramento have been transformed this Labor Day weekend to mirror those of the 1850s Gold Rush era.

In March, the biggest announcement at the eighth annual Authors on the Move gala was that Dave Eggers and his latest nonfiction book, "Zeitoun," were chosen by the Sacramento Public Library to headline its sixth annual One Book Sacramento program.

Investigators were working to determine why a 26-year-old woman was shot to death in a car early Saturday morning, according to police.