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Jurors concluded their sixth day of deliberations without a verdict Friday in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" wrongful death trial.

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Lloyd A. Phillips sent a jury out to begin deliberations Thursday in the wrongful-death trial over a woman who died in a radio station's water-drinking contest nearly three years ago.

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LOS ANGELES – "Mad Men" and "30 Rock" led a pack of Emmy winners who successfully defended their titles at Sunday's show, but the snappy ceremony and a star turn by host Neil Patrick Harris made the evening far from a rerun.

Drama Series: "Mad Men," AMC.

The radio station made up the contest rules "on the spot," the plaintiffs' attorneys said, in pursuit of "sheer entertainment value" and top ratings in the Sacramento market. The result: a young mom who died trying to win a popular video game for her family.

Several changes will be made to Fox's "Lie To Me" when the second season begins Sept. 28, including tweaks to boost the energy of the story lines and the addition of Mekhi Phifer to the cast.

Sacramento is getting a swanky new riverfront restaurant.

A judge on Wednesday rescheduled the wrongful- death trial over a woman who died from drinking too much water in a 2007 radio station contest to win a video game.

R.E. Graswich, former Bee columnist and a co-anchor on KFBK radio, has been named special assistant to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson.

Jennifer Smith, who has worked for KXTV News10 nearly 30 years, has been reassigned from her position as anchor to a position as "multimedia journalist."

The Nielsen Co. said Thursday that 29,390 households in the Sacramento region were not equipped to receive digital TV signals as of Sunday, a month after the nationwide analog-to-digital changeover.

More than a month after the historic nationwide switch to all-digital TV, some Northern Californians are still struggling to receive signals and watch their favorite programs.

A Sacramento film production company has hit the trifecta of reality TV.

A firefighter barely visible through the smoke works near a fence to douse a two-alarm fire Wednesday along the American River Parkway.

The "American Idol" tour rocked Arco Arena on Friday night. Before the concert, The Bee sat down with five of the Top 10 performers to discuss the two-month-plus road trip, their plans moving forward and other hot topics.

El Dorado County is tapping the star quality of local residents and entrepreneurs in a bid to draw worldwide attention to its natural, historical and cultural riches.

Still struggling to join the digital TV age?

Vanguard, the program that jailed journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling work for at San Francisco-based Current TV, has a simple mission: to tell stories the mainstream media are not.

Now that the all-digital TV age is here, the next step is getting everybody on board.

Still have questions?

The new era of TV arrived Friday, and the clouds of digital despair parted – mostly – and the fears that thousands of analog antenna-bound Sacramentans would be deprived of sitcoms, soaps or news disappeared.

A Sacramento radio team issued an on-air apology Thursday for making offensive comments about transgender people.

Radio hosts Arnie States and Rob Williams today will welcome two advocates for transgender people – a group the DJs labeled "freaks," "weirdos" and "drama queens" two weeks ago.

WASHINGTON – Congress soon may mute screaming television ad announcers who press viewers to "Buy now!" – unless broadcasters beat the lawmakers to the volume button.

The nationwide transition from analog to digital TV is set for Friday. Most people – including those with cable or satellite service, a digital receiver or an analog-to-digital converter box – are ready. But some are not, and others will have either poor or no reception after the switch.

Undoubtedly, many people will be listening Thursday when some tasteless shock jocks on Sacramento's KRXQ apologize for mocking transgender people on the air.

The nationwide transition from analog to digital TV is set for Friday.

Two transgender advocates will be part of an on-air apology Thursday by a Sacramento radio team that has upset lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates.

The trio known to KRXQ listeners as "Rob, Arnie & Dawn" will not broadcast live again until Thursday, when they will "say what needs to be said" about references they made on air about transgender people.

The nationwide transition from analog to digital TV is set for Friday.

Bank of America, Verizon, Chipotle and other companies have pulled advertising from a Sacramento radio station after talk show hosts referred to transgender people as freaks with mental disorders.

Lambasted by critics for belittling children who expressed transgender feelings, local radio host Arnie States said Wednesday that he didn't do anything wrong.

This time they really mean it. TV goes all-digital in 11 days and there will be no take-backs, no changies and, if you aren't prepared, no TV.

Conan O'Brien, 46, today becomes only the fifth permanent host of NBC's "Tonight Show." He joins the ranks of Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.