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Steinberg: Democrats seeking alternatives to some budget cuts

By Torey Van Oot - Updated: 1:31 pm

Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg today repeated a pledge to look for budget solutions that would allow lawmakers to preserve some services targeted with steep cuts under Gov. Jerry Brown's revised budget plan.

Hatfield granted custody of grandchildren

By Cynthia Hubert - Updated: 1:17 pm

The Winkler children, left without parents at home after their mother was killed and their father jailed in her death, will remain with their grandfather in Napa.

Thousands in Sacramento region expected to join Bike to Work Day

By Bill Lindelof - Published: 2:19 pm

Thousands of commuters are expected to pedal to work Thursday around the Sacramento region as part of Bike to Work Day.

New scrutiny for CA nuke plant, as restart looms

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Updated: 3:03 pm

The idled San Onofre nuclear power plant is facing new scrutiny from Congress as the utility that operates it moves closer to proposing a fix to get the twin reactors back in service.

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Yolo candidate takes responsibility for unresearched attack mailer

By Darrell Smith - Published: 1:21 pm

Yolo Superior Court candidate Clint Parish said he did not confirm claims in an attack mailer that alleged his campaign rival Judge Dan Maguire was involved in corporate fraud and bribery while working at a Colorado law firm in the mid-1990s.

Video: Student protest disrupts UC regents meeting in Sacramento

By David Siders - Updated: 3:08 pm

University of California students disrupted a meeting of the UC regents in Sacramento this morning, protesting tuition increases in a sustained chant that forced regents to break early for a closed session meeting.

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May 16, 2012 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - A women talks with her husband through a cell phone when their house was destroyed in the fire which broke out in slums at the Shyamoli area. About 150 shanties were destroyed and 10 people injured in the fire.
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A gay couple kisses during a march against homophobia outside Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday.
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From left, actors Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban, director Wes Anderson, actors, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton and Bill Murray arrive for the opening ceremony and screening of Moonrise Kingdom at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday.
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May 16, 2012 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Prisoners arrested in a police mass arrest as the BNP leader arrives in Dhaka Court on Wednesday. Thirty-three top 18-party alliance leaders including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir landed in jail on Wednesday after their bail petitions were rejected in an arson case.
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Charlie Eaton, a graduate student from the University of California, Berkeley, has his hands bound a sign place over his mouth as part of a demonstration that disrupted the UC Board of Regents meeting in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday. Wearing orange and calling themselves prisoner sentenced to debt, the protestors were calling for a crackdown on UC mismanagement of executive pay, tuition hikes and police violence towards students. No arrests were made and the demonstrators left on their own.