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Council favors pension changes for Sacramento's cops, firefighters

By Ryan Lillis - Updated: 12:13 am

The Sacramento City Council appears on board with wrangling bigger pension contributions out of the city's cops and firefighters.

Questions swirl around Jerry Brown's plan to cut state workers' hours

By Jon Ortiz - Published: 12:00 am

One day after Gov. Jerry Brown proposed sweeping changes to state government work schedules, many employees were still deciphering what it means for them.

Hearing today in granddad's fight to keep three kids

By Cynthia Hubert - Published: 12:00 am

NAPA – A large white calendar on the wall behind Don Hatfield's easel reads like a soccer mom's dream.

Candidate's mailer in Yolo judge's race creates uproar

By Darrell Smith - Published: 12:00 am

Yolo County prosecutor Clint Parish lost the endorsement of Sheriff Ed Prieto and received a stinging rebuke from Yolo County's presiding judge after a Parish campaign mailer sought to tie the judge he's running against June 5 to corporate bribes and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's controversial commutation of the prison sentence of a political ally's son.

Twin Rivers school board candidate has criminal record

By Melody Gutierrez - Published: 12:00 am

Twin Rivers Unified School District school board candidate John Berchielli has a lengthy criminal record, including felony convictions for child endangerment, setting booby traps, marijuana cultivation and welfare fraud.

El Dorado deputies protest detectives' rotation to patrol duty

By Peter Hecht - Published: 12:00 am

Five veteran El Dorado County sheriff's investigators, including a detective who worked on the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case and the teen lovers' murder saga of Steven Colver and Tylar Witt, have been reassigned to patrol units.

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Randy Pench / rpench@sacbee.com

Elizabeth Hawkins, mother of victim, Scott Hawkins, hugs Kurt Kilgore of San Francisco outside the courtroom after the sentencing. Kilgore is the legal guardian of Quran Jones who was sentenced, Tuesday, for the 2009 murder of Sacramento State student, Scott Hawkins, in a dorm the two students shared. View a photo gallery.
Renee C. Byer / rbyer@sacbee.com

Don Hatfield, changes his grandson Alex's diaper and has become more comfortable with his routine with his three grandchildren. His two granddaughters are now enrolled in preschool, ballet, and attend a children's ministry at Grace Church in St. Helena every Sunday. The noted impressionist painter has several babysitters who relieve him while he is painting and running errands. View a photo gallery.
Jose Luis Villegas / jvillegas@sacbee.com

New Sacramento fire fighter, Masoud Baruk, holds his son, Cayd Baruk, 2, during Tuesdays City Council budget hearing on cuts to the fire department. Fire fighters marched from Fire Station 2, to City Hall before a City Council meeting. View a photo gallery.
Hector Amezcua / hamezcua@sacbee.com

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, listens to former Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso during an Assembly committee to review the pepper-spraying incident at UC Davis on Tuesday.
Fernando Vergara / AP

Commuters look at the scene of a bomb explosion as they ride past on a bus in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday. A bomb targeting former Colombian interior minister Fernando Londono killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 31 others in the heart of Bogota's uptown commercial district, authorities said.