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Kings old and new to join thousands of fans at downtown Sacramento rally

By Ryan Lillis and Tony Bizjak - Updated: 7:25 am

Thousands of Kings fans - plus a few former team legends and the core of the franchise's new ownership group - are expected to converge on downtown's Cesar Chavez Plaza Thursday afternoon for a rally celebrating the team's future in Sacramento.

Sacramento's bar-hopping cyclists risk tickets, too

By Sam McManis - Updated: 7:25 am

On his third beer, entering that transition between warm glow and steady buzz, Kevin O'Connell wasn't ready to leave happy hour at the Pour House, a bar on Q and 19th streets in midtown Sacramento.

'Foodies' spark reawakening of Grange in California

By Cynthia H. Craft - Updated: 7:48 am

From exclusive Marin to tony Malibu, young food activists are sparking the renaissance of an old fraternal order – the California Grange.

West Sacramento homeowner uses new state law to stop foreclosure

By Hudson Sangree - Updated: 7:29 am

A West Sacramento man is among the first in the state to use California's new Homeowner Bill of Rights to stop a bank from foreclosing on his home, and experts say the case marks a shift in a legal system that has traditionally favored lenders.

California community colleges add summer classes

By Loretta Kalb - Updated: 11:27 pm

Two-year colleges are seeing the first signs of relief from years of cost-cutting that produced a virtual stranglehold on students' ability to sign up for needed classes.

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Replica of Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall comes to Fair Oaks

By Richard Chang - Updated: 7:32 am

Replica of Vietnam Vetrans' Memorial arrives in Fair Oaks

Nearly 40 years after the last shots of the Vietnam War were fired in Saigon, South Vietnam, Daniel Williams, 74, still remembers vividly the battles he fought in rice fields during the conflict.

Garage near City Hall and Chavez Plaza to get $1.3 million in improvements

By Tony Bizjak - Published: 12:00 am

Sacramento officials will launch $1.3 million in improvements to the downtown garage across from Cesar Chavez Plaza – including facade upgrades to attract retail and restaurant tenants to the underused site.

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Vietnam veteran George Martin, of Fair Oaks, looks over names on the panels of the traveling Vietnam memorial wall on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Martin, 64, was an enlisted Marine who served three tours in Vietnam. He was one of many motorcycle riders who escorted the monument from Dixon along Interstate 80. The Traveling Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall arrived at Mount Vernon Memorial Park in Fair Oaks where volunteers set up the three-quarter replica of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C. View a photo gallery.
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Michelle Rousey, of Oakland, walks her dog past several tents during the Disability Capitol Action Day at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Disability Capitol Action Day included a march, speakers and information booths for people with various types of disabilities.
Joel Rosenbaum / AP

Browns Valley Elementary School kindergartner, Ethan Preciado, third from left, 6, of Vacaville, Calif., checks out fellow classmate, Talan May, 6, as May gives 100-year old former Browns Valley Elementary School teacher Lena Bonovich a big birthday hug during a lunchtime party on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Vacaville. Bonovich was invited back to the school to celebrate with former colleagues and was serenaded by kindergarten students.
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Susan Kates salvages items from a friend's tornado-ravaged home Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. View a photo gallery.
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Carolyn Zhang, 27, a bride from China prepares for a photo-shoot with her new husband Peng Yuan, unseen, during their honeymoon in Greece at Zappeio Park in Athens, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.