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American flags along the streets of downtown Grass Valley were taken after the Fourth of July, according to the Grass Valley Downtown Association, the latest sign of unacceptable behavior in our towns. The group allegedly boasted about their acts at the Nevada Club, according to Julia Jordan of the Downtown Association. “Where’s your sense...

A new national campaign sponsored in part by the pharmaceutical industry is trying to raise awareness about the importance of taking medications exactly as prescribed by doctors. Half of the 3.2 billion prescriptions dispensed in the U.S. every year ar...

California’s Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act of 2010 (SB 183) went into effect July 1, 2011.  Under this new law, all single-family homes with an attached garage or fuel-burning appliances must have a carbon monoxide detector or alarm. Violators will face a $200 fine for each offense. The Office of the State Fire Marshal’s...

Elk Grove Police caught four Southern Californian thieves as they were stealing ATM identifications early Sunday morning.

I had just arrived at S.'s house in Woodland on a hot Fourth-of-July afternoon, when trouble reared its ugly head. I just missed hearing the double explosion that ignited a house fire on the next street over!Left: A plume of smoke indicated trouble i...

The human potential movement  will be on display in Sacramento starting tomorrow with the 19th running of  the World Masters Athletic Championships. The track and field competition has attracted more than 4,800 entrants from 93 countries. They range in age … Continue reading →

By Lisa Page, Julie Soderlund and Becky Warren A friend of Lisa’s recently took a gourmet ghetto food tour in Berkeley that made her mouth water just hearing her describe it. Just when we started to get jealous that Sacramento didn’t have something similar, she told me something had just started up here. A few...

For residents of the San Joaquin Valley, buying more fuel-efficient cars makes sense for many reasons. With 57 percent of the region’s pollution from vehicles, according to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, every purchase of a mo...

We were stunned when the city of Davis put into actual figures what we had expected for some time, the surface water project was going to mean a tripling of Davis water rates.  Among other things we feared that this would price people out of their h...

Americans celebrated the 235th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with parades, fireworks and barbecues. Thousands were showing up near the Washington Monument to eagerly await the annual fireworks show on the National Mall, as USA Today reported. In Boston, the annual Boston Pops concert was a must. Readers of Sierra...