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May 15, 2013 - A UK pharmaceutical firm has announced that it is "putting in place concrete steps" to stop the use of its drugs in executions. Hikma PLC, which is headquartered in London, made the announcement after it emerged that executioners at Ark...

By Laurel Rosenhall lrosenhall@sacbee.com University of California police arrested 13 people this morning who staged a noisy but orderly protest during the governing board of regents' meeting at the Sacramento Convention Center. Hospital workers wh...

SACRAMENTO COUNTY—

Sheriff’s deputies found themselves in a short pursuit in South Sacramento Wednesday morning.

A little before 3 a.m., deputies got a call of shots fired. Arriving at the scene, a patrol car was nearly clipped by another car.…

By Mary Flynn California’s sweeping criminal justice reform plan, in place since October 2011, was meant to sharply reduce the state’s prison population. But the changes may have also had the unintended consequence of passing along the biggest p...

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The next step step towards a human mission to Mars has arrived: meet Orion, the spacecraft that is destined to eventually take humans to the red planet.

First, NASA has to make a few stops.

“We’re building a …

An Olivehurst woman filed a $500,000 personal injury suit earlier this week against the Yuba County Sheriff's Department, claiming she was "violently attacked" by a bailiff, then denied food and medical treatment in jail. In a complaint filed Monday...

Gov. Jerry Brown committed Tuesday to a state-based expansion of subsidized health care for low-income Californians, abandoning a proposal he had floated that would have required each of the state's 58 counties to provide care for the low-income people...

With a hearing scheduled in the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court today the long-scheduled closure of the Drakes Bay Oyster Company has become a cause celebre of well-funded conservative groups, as they seek to overturn the Interior Department’s dec...

The strong revenue California collected in April is one more encouraging sign that after years of weathering the Great Recession we appear to have reached a point of budget stability. To help build on that stability, Assembly Democrats have crafted a ...

This week the Assembly Appropriations Committee is scheduled to consider legislation by Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, AB 1000, that would allow patients direct access to physical therapy treatment for 45 calendar days or 12 visits, without a doctor’s ...