IOUs from California are on their way
SACRAMENTO — With its bank balance careening toward zero, California began sending tens of thousands of IOUs to its creditors on Thursday, the latest black eye for the state and its broken budget system.
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By Mike Zapler
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau)
2 Jul 2009 at 7:43pm
Lane closings could slow I-80 drive to Reno
Caltrans warns that 21-mile drive from Truckee to Nevada state line could take two hours this weekend.
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By Gary Richards
Mercury News)
2 Jul 2009 at 6:54pm
Santa Clara County supervisors name new chief legal adviser
A champion of small schools, a prominent voice in Latino legal circles and a former student body co-president at Stanford University is Santa Clara County's new chief legal adviser.
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By Lisa Fernandez
Mercury News)
2 Jul 2009 at 6:22pm
Girls get an invitation into 'Brandi's World'
Brandi Chastain is on a mission. In three long-legged strides, she covers the distance to the chair next to the one in which Los Gatos podiatrist Dr.
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By Marianne L. Hamilton
Los Gatos Weekly-Times)
2 Jul 2009 at 5:56pm
Court upholds death sentence of man who killed seven in Sunnyvale
The California Supreme Court today upheld the 1992 death sentence of Richard Wade Farley, convicted of killing seven co-workers and wounding others in an infamous mass shooting spree at a Sunnyvale high tech company.
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By Howard Mintz
Mercury News)
2 Jul 2009 at 5:37pm
Retail 3.0: We're ready to celebrate on the Fourth
More Americans are feeling the need to get into a celebratory spirit and the Fourth of July is the day they're planning to do so.
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By Donna Kato
Mercury News)
2 Jul 2009 at 5:18pm
Santa Clara County sheriffs bust secret pot garden near San Jose
Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies arrested one man and are searching for at least one other in connection with a secret pot garden bust that netted 6,100 marijuana plants with a street value of $18 million.
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Mercury News)
2 Jul 2009 at 4:52pm
State board sets 3.75 percent interest rate on California IOUs
California will begin to print and send out tens of thousands of IOUs to pay its bills, the latest black eye for the state and its broken budget system.
More on the California budget crisis
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mzapler@mercurynews.com (By Mike Zapler
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau)
2 Jul 2009 at 4:39pm
Police re-issue urgent alert for missing Campbell man
Campbell police have issued an updated urgent alert regarding a missing Campbell man with severe dementia who has not been seen for more than a day and who is likely wandering around without his medications.
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By Lisa Fernandez
Mercury News)
2 Jul 2009 at 1:55pm
Driver extracted from overturned SUV on Highway 101 in Palo Alto
Emergency workers had to use the Jaws of Life Wednesday night to extract a 30-year-old man from his vehicle when in crashed off U.
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2 Jul 2009 at 1:17pm
Four lakes for the Fourth
Area lakes beckon on a warm holiday weekend. Splashing in Folsom Lake.For many outdoor enthusiasts, the Fourth of July often turns into a four-day weekend, with the hopes of enjoying a four-pack of fun through different daily adventures.
Though many area lakeside campgrounds are booked solid through the weekend, that shouldn't stop you from enjoying other activities offered at the four lakes we're suggesting for the Fourth.
We decided to focus on nearby Folsom Lake State Recreation ...
by gortiz@sacbee.com (Gamaliel Ortiz)
2 Jul 2009 at 2:45pm
Warm predictions follow another below-average Sacramento rainy season
Though the final three months of the annual rain season brought decent precipitation totals -- like from this May downpour -- the late surge was not enough to push the region's totals above average.As the Sacramento region settles into its annual stretch of dry summer weather, data from the official rain season that ended Tuesday shows that though it could have been worse, a little more precipitation would not have hurt.
Predictions from the National Weather Service provide no hope that...
by blindelof@sacbee.com (Bill Lindelof)
2 Jul 2009 at 9:37am
DMV offices to close three Fridays
State Department of Motor Vehicle offices will be closed each of the next three Fridays, July 10, 17, and 24, to comply with the governor's furlough order, department officials said.
DMV field offices will remain open Mondays through Thursdays.
Officials urged motorists to make sure all paperwork is in order before coming to a field office, to expedite their visit.
Those who have a registration deadline date that falls on a Friday will be given an extra business day to conclude th...
by tbizjak@sacbee.com (Tony Bizjak)
2 Jul 2009 at 6:31pm
Just destroy class DVD, district tells parents
Elk Grove Unified officials have rescinded a request for parents to return DVDs that included "inappropriate images" they say were inadvertently sent home with students at Isabelle Jackson Elementary.
Now, the district doesn't want the DVDs back.
"Just destroy them," said district spokeswoman Torrey Johnson.
A teacher apparently sent the DVD retrospective of class activity home with her 24 students on the last day of school Friday.
Although the district would not say what sort...
by dlambert@sacbee.com (Diana Lambert and Stan Oklobdzija)
2 Jul 2009 at 2:00am
Firefighters to vote on plan that would save 68 jobs
After months of bitter negotiations, the city of Sacramento and its fire union have agreed to salary concessions that they say will save the jobs of dozens of firefighters.
Now, it's up to the firefighters to accept the plan or reject it.
As many as 68 jobs in the Sacramento Fire Department will be eliminated unless the union ratifies a deal approved Wednesday by the City Council in a special closed session.
Under the tentative agreement, firefighter salaries would be frozen for...
by rlillis@sacbee.com (Ryan Lillis)
2 Jul 2009 at 2:00am
Salmon saved from overheated pool in Sacramento River tributary
Biologists netted 26 spring-run Chinook salmon this week, saving them from a pool in a tributary of the Sacramento River where they trapped themselves in warm water.
The fish, on the federal threatened-species list, would not move from the Butte Creek pool where the water was significantly warmer than the rest of the stream, creating what the state Department of Fish and Game said was a "thermal block."
The warm water in the stream near Chico caused the fish to seek cooler water at th...
by blindelof@sacbee.com (Bill Lindelof)
2 Jul 2009 at 11:43am
Applications for home-buying tax credit to be cut off today
They're almost gone.
The California Franchise Tax Board announced this morning it will pull the plug on its fax machine at midnight tonight, accepting no more applications for a $10,000 tax credit for buyers of new unoccupied homes in California.
Early Wednesday, the FTB said it has received 11,925 applications for the popular tax credit - 75 short of its 12,000-application limit.
The state tax agency said last month it would take 2,000 extra applications for the credit because ma...
by jwasserman@sacbee.com (Jim Wasserman)
2 Jul 2009 at 12:28pm
For seniors, a Wii may be a win-win: Fun and brain-nourishing
Lillian Dow of Folsom, using a Nintendo Wii device, engages in virtual bowling Wednesday at the Folsom Senior Center. Watching her are, from left, Doretta Youngdahl of Pacifica, Elsie Offner of Folsom and Tom Grunwaldt of Folsom.A dozen or so older adults at the Folsom Senior Center erupt in cheers and clapping as Elsie Offner, a 91-year-old resident of Folsom, bowls a strike.
The senior center doesn't have lanes, but it does have a new bit of gaming technology, a Nintendo Wii. And with...
by ndiakopoulos@sacbee.com (Nicholas Diakopoulos)
2 Jul 2009 at 2:00am
Sacramento's Urban League chooses new leader
David DeLuz has been chosen president and CEO of the Greater Sacramento Urban League by the organization's board of directors.
James Shelby announced earlier this year that he would retire after 16 years as president and chief executive officer of the League.
DeLuz, who was president of the Sacramento branch of the NAACP from 2002 to 2005, said that he was excited to get to work and honored to follow in Shelby's footsteps.
"I have much respect for Mr. Shelby's legacy, and I am hon...
by blindelof@sacbee.com (Bill Lindelof)
2 Jul 2009 at 12:41pm
Sacramento homeless march to call for a campground
Violet Garcia, a formerly homeless woman, marches Wednesday along Richards Boulevard with supporters of a safe campground in Sacramento. The protest followed closure of a Cal Expo winter shelter, which had remained open after national media reported on a tent city used by the homeless in the capital.
The day after Sacramento's temporary homeless shelter closed for the season at Cal Expo, more than 250 homeless people and advocates marched to promote their latest idea for providing b...
by jjohnson@sacbee.com (Julie Johnson)
2 Jul 2009 at 2:00am