The Elk Grove City Council on Wednesday night approved one of the most restrictive medical marijuana growing ordinances in Northern California, requiring that any growing operation be conducted in a home or detached backyard building.



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California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills that some officials describe as one of the most egregious cases of illegal mining they have ever encountered.

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Nadine Salonites, a noted opera soprano who was a Woodland kindergarten teacher and volunteer, died Jan. 25 of complications from diabetes and heart problems, her family said. She was 81.

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