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SACRAMENTO—

Police say that an argument between a man and a wife took a scary turn Monday when the husband apparently jumped on top of the roof of a moving truck.

Officers showed up to Far Niente and Carneros Creek …

By Hannah Guzik Under the Affordable Care Act, health care providers are required to offer domestic-violence screening and counseling to all women, and health insurance companies are required pay for those services. Health care providers statewide h...

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Neighbors of a 12-year-old murder suspect had doubts about his story about a stranger stabbing his 8-year-old sister to death.

The boy was arrested several weeks after a manhunt for the killer of Leila Fowler.

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Editor’s note: I’ve been wondering if The Union was ever going to address this issue, in the aftermath of complaints from users on the Nevada County Peeps Facebook page earlier this month. NC Peeps is now a “closed group.” The Union’s policy is not to run letters to the editor without confirmation from the...

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Sacramento Animal Control says they’ve never seen anything like it – 11 dogs locked in a hot car on a hot Sunday morning.

Then emergency personnel arrived on scene all the dogs, including a litter of nine puppies were …

WASHINGTON May 13, 2013 – Just six months after voters in Minnesota voted to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, the state legislature today passed legislation providing equal access to civil marriages for gay and le...

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A Northern California environmental group has begun airing advertisements on cable TV stations criticizing Gov. Jerry Brown for allowing clear-cut logging on thousands of acres of forest land. Marily Woodhouse, co-founder of the Manton-based Battle Cr...

SACRAMENTO COUNTY—

Detectives have released the sketch of a man wanted in a broad daylight kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl that happened on Saturday.

The girl was able to escape, but the incident has authorities worried that the suspect may …