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Sacramento area shelters are overcrowded with cats

Meet Dopey, Frank and Reese, three orphan furballs who love to lick a stranger's hand. Just 3 months old, the kitten brothers have lived a hard life. Abandoned at birth, they showed up on a Sacramento woman's doorstep. The woman liked the kittens but ...

From TODD MILBOURN, Sacramento Bee,  20 Jul 2008

'Secessionists' to celebrate

The glorious Republic of Rough and Ready lasted just three months in 1850, born out of frustration over a mining tax and abandoned legend has it after bartenders in neighboring towns started refusing to serve liquor to "foreigners." The gold miners ...

From TODD MILBOURN, Sacramento Bee,  29 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Brian Peterson,  U.S. Senate

Family law attorney arrested on sex assault charges

Authorities arrested a Sacramento family law attorney Saturday on suspicion of sexually assaulting his clients. Gary Appelblatt, 57, faces nine felony counts of sexual battery, four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery and another felony count related ...

From TODD MILBOURN, Sacramento Bee,  28 Jun 2008

Smokey air improves - a little bit

That's actually an improvement: Earlier this week, officials deemed it "very unhealthy." Wildfires raging throughout the state Saturday morning continued to drape a blanket of smoke across the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada foothills. Though ...

From TODD MILBOURN, Sacramento Bee,  28 Jun 2008

Fire threatens Butte County community of Palermo

A fast-moving wildfire charred 1,000 acres of grassland in Butte County Tuesday and threatened the farming community of Palermo. The fire broke out before noon and by late afternoon was 10 percent contained, said Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant. ...

From TODD MILBOURN, Sacramento Bee,  10 Jun 2008

Authorities seeking two missing men

Sacramento-area authorities are investigating the separate disappearances of two men in recent weeks. Sheriff's officials are probing what they say is the suspicious disappearance of a Sacramento man who failed to show up for work three weeks ago. ...

From TODD MILBOURN, Sacramento Bee,  29 May 2008

Fight at Citrus Heights house party sends 4 to the hospital

A fight erupted at a Citrus Heights house party early Saturday morning, sending four young men to the hospital with knife and gunshot wounds. None of the injuries was life-threatening. The fight broke out at about 1:30 a.m. outside a house on the ...

From TODD MILBOURN, Sacramento Bee,  24 May 2008

Weather puts a damper on Jazz Jubilee, Memorial Day

Sacramentans may want jazz today, but Mother Nature is singing the blues. An uncharacteristically late spring storm washed across the region Saturday morning, dropping rain in the valley and snow above 6,500 feet. Temperatures dropped to 20 degrees ...

From TODD MILBOURN, Sacramento Bee,  24 May 2008
Related Topics: National Weather Service

Sacramento hospital fined by state over patient's death

State regulators cited a Sacramento psychiatric hospital for a second time in three months Wednesday, saying the facility's poor care led to the death of a patient. The California Department of Public Health fined BHC Sierra Vista Hospital $25,000 for ...

From TODD MILBOURN, Sacramento Bee,  21 May 2008

Girl, 11, rescued from American River, later dies

Monserrat Alegere, 11, of Richmond, had been swimming with family members near Discovery Park and was not wearing a life jacket. Rescuers searched underwater for the girl for 20 minutes before finding her. When they pulled her out, she had no pulse and ...

From TODD MILBOURN, Sacramento Bee,  17 May 2008

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