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Jacob Caneba, 11, and his sister Kate, 8, hold an American flag Thursday to honor Marine Staff Sgt. Sky R. Mote, 27, of El Dorado, who was killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 10, 2012. As a motorcade carried Mote's body from McClellan Air Park to Green Valley Mortuary, area residents waved flags from freeway overpasses and lined streets along the route in El Dorado Hills, where he attended elementary and middle school. -
The Sacramento region's first baby of the year, Luke Paul Gerhart, 8-pound, 8-ounces, was born two minutes after midnight at Mercy General Hospital on Sunday, January 1, 2012. -
Marianne Lomax, right, sits with friends Emily Brady, and Hayley Helton, center, as supporters gathered for a candlelight vigil for Linnea Lomax, at Arcade Church in Sacramento on July 3, 2012. Linnea, a 19-year-old UC Davis student from Placerville, walked away from an outpatient mental health facility in June. Marianne Lomax found her daughterÕs body along the American River in early September. Linnea had taken her own life. -
A Sacramento County SheriffÕs deputy cares Mark Bukhantsov, 6-months old, who was unharmed in a Rancho Cordova shooting on October 23, 2012, that took the lives of his mother, Alina Bukhantsov, 23, and siblings Emmanuela, 3, and Avenir, 2. -
A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement is arrested by California Highway Patrol officers during a counter-protest of the South Africa Project, which had gathered on the south steps of the Capitol on February 27, 2012 to protest Òwhite genocide in South Africa.Ó -
Bodie, a Sacramento police dog, recovers at the Sacramento Veterinary Referral Center in Rancho Cordova after being shot once in the leg and twice in the jaw on May 18, 2012, during the pursuit of a suspected car thief in the Land Park neighborhood. Bodie is on the mend and may return to duty in early 2013. -
A tearful Jorge Azios Jr. is embraced during a prayer vigil for his 3-year-old son, who died July 4, 2012, after gun shots were fired from a vehicle into the car Azios was driving on Loucreta Drive near Palmer House Drive. Jorge Azios, 3, died after more than a dozen bullets hit the car his father was driving. -
Don Hatfield snuggles his grandson Alex Winkler, 9 months, the youngest of the three children of his daughter, Rachel Winkler who was stabbed to death February 27, 2012, in her Cameron Park home; her husband, Todd Winkler, has been charged. Hatfield, a noted Northern California artist, lost his wife, Janey, to cancer in January, reached an agreement in private mediation to become the primary guardian for his grandchildren Eva, 5, Ariel, 3 and Alex. Todd Winkler's trial is pending. -
"We couldn't move out of the way fast enough," says Gemily West, 23, of Carmichael. West was seriously hurt, and her boyfriend, Harison Long-Randall, 21, was killed as were their four dogs, in a hit-and-run accident that provoked nationwide outrage in July. West's discolored right leg is held together by 42 metal staples. Prosecutors have charged the suspected drunken driver with murder. -
Isabel Call and her boyfriend, Chris Ganson, snuggle in his home in midtown Sacramento before her departure for Houston in June, to undergo cancer treatment. Call has a rare cancer and successfully fought her insurance company for coverage of an innovative treatment. -
Bassist Harley White Jr. accompanies poet Justin Desmangles during a poetry reading under the redwood trees at the University of California, Davis Arboretum on May 17, 2012. -
The space shuttle Endeavour, riding atop a modified Boeing 747, soars over the state Capitol on September 21, 2012, as part of a farewell journey that ended with its arrival at a Los Angeles museum. -
SacramentoÕs downtown skyline looms beyond the Sacramento River waterfront and the Tower Bridge in a composite photograph made in October. 2012. -
Peter Pum smells a fragrant piece of wood as Sacramento city workers remove a huge camphor tree from the corner of 18th Street and Capitol in Sacramento in August. The landmark tree, planted in 1886, was a favorite among residents and was removed because it was riddled with disease. -
Francie Dillon, one of Northern California's premier children's entertainers, takes a break from swimming in September. Increasingly debilitated by a mysterious disease, her symptoms interfere with her speech, movement and ability to deliver the high-energy show that she is known for. -
Mina Brown, 6, of Elk Grove, proudly wears a butterfly painting during the Day of Peace event held at Carmichael Park in June. The Living Well Center's annual event filled the park with yoga and Zumba, vendors, music, food and a farmers market. -
Ngaly Tapa, a defensive tackle at Burbank High School, celebrates on the sideline during a game against Sacramento High in September. -
Fantasia Stensland, of east Sacramento, left, photographs Dick Cowan, of Gold River, at a display mimicking one of Norman Rockwell's famous paintings at the opening of the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento in November. -
Malyia Jeffers plays with classmates at Hillsdale Avenue Head Start in North Highlands in October. The 4-year-old is walking and running on her prosthetics nearly two years after the medical nightmare that claimed parts of all four of her limbs. -
George Nied, a 63-year-old stay-at-home dad, watches his son Jack, 6, and daughter Jenna, 5, at the family's North Natomas home. Caring for the kids "stops me from doing other activities, "he says. "But I ... realized there's really nothing I'd rather do than be with these kids." -
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith takes a helmet in the back of the head by St. Louis Rams linebacker Jo-Lonn Dunbar in November at Candlestick Park. Smith sustained a concussion during the play and later left the game. -
DeMarcus Cousins, the Sacramento Kings' troubled-young center, concentrates during a game against the San Antonio Spurs at Sleep Train Arena on Nov. 9, 2012. Cousins was suspended for two games without pay for Òconfronting Spurs announcer Sean Elliot in a hostile mannerÓ after the game. -
St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Allen Craig tags San Francisco Giants' Gregor Blanco before he can touch the base, but Blanco was called safe by umpire Bill Miller in the eighth inning of Game 2 of the NLCS on Oct. 15, 2012 at AT&T Park in San Francisco. -
San Francisco Giants fan Larry Jackson, of Napa, watches infield practice before a spring training game in Scottsdale, Arizona in March. Jackson had recently had the Giants 2010 World Series Championship logo tattooed on the back of his head.
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