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Counties have no choice but to do things better than the state. That’s what Kern County officials are saying as they prepare for an influx of low-level offenders from state prisons. They’re hoping to be more successful when it comes to helping of...

In California, many prisoners who are released from jails and prisons can't go home to parents or spouses because of rules that bar ex-offenders from living in public or subsidized housing. But those zero tolerance policies may be changing – at...

Baseball fans are the biggest agnostics. They are very skeptical about things like miracles, about putting too much blind faith in hope.But, when hope refuses to die, it's hard not to start believing, to start praying to the Baseball Gods.Yes, the pros...

Today we throw some cold cereal on all of those playoff hopes Hornets fans had after one football game. Here’s what they’re saying about the Sac State loss to Weber State: * Our game story at SacStateSports.com looked at the how the Hornets have taken two steps back. * The Ogden Standard-Examiner quoted Weber...

Sunday Commentary: Did City Staff and Paul Navazio Sabotage Budget Cuts? On Tuesday's Davis City Council agenda, City Manager Steve Pinkerton has asked council to postpone the September 30th deadline to cut 2.5 million from the budget. Wrote the ...

One of the broadest and most sweeping reforms in years is about to take place on October 1, when counties will directly assume responsibility for so-called low-level criminal offenders - those who have been convicted of non-violent, non-serious and n...

Here's the dirty math on the Giants' outside shot at winning a slot in the playoffs:If the Arizona Diamondbacks or Atlanta Braves split their remaining 10 games, the Giants would have to win their final 10 games (meaning they'd have to finish the seaso...

Yesterday, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued notice of three reports on the right to water and sanitation relating to the US, Japan and Slovenia.Regarding the United States, the notice s...

This story was reported from online TV and radio broadcast reports. OGDEN, Utah - One step forward, two steps back. The Sacramento State Hornets suffered their second consecutive TKO on Saturday – not just a loss – two weeks after after shocking the college football world. Weber State literally ran over Sac State in...

Sacramento has been prominently cited in a United Nations report on cruel treatment of homeless people in the United States.The report, researched and written by Catarina de Albuquerque, is titled “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right ...