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Online translation on the rise, changing lives

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Updated: 5:41 pm

You might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find Manga comic book or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Or, like Phillip and Niki Smith in rural Mississippi, you could use it to rescue a Chinese orphan and fall in love at the same time.

Airport control tower closures put on hold; Sacramento officials study options

By Tony Bizjak - Published: 12:00 am

Sacramento County airport officials said Friday they are looking into ways they can pay to keep the Sacramento Executive Airport traffic control tower open if the federal government follows through on a plan to cut tower financing.

State cites hazardous waste facility in Rancho Cordova

By Cathy Locke - Published: 12:00 am

A Rancho Cordova facility that serves as a transfer station for hazardous waste has been ordered to cease its waste consolidation operations following two fires and an explosion in two years.

California exports were up, not down, in February

By Mark Glover - Published: 12:00 am

Looking at California exports in February, what was down was actually up, according to trade experts.

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Nigeria police: 12 missing after delta attack

By JON GAMBRELL - Updated: 3:06 pm

Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta ambushed a group of police officers as they sat stranded in a boat in the region's winding creeks, leaving at least 12 "missing" in the most serious attack in months in a region vital to the country's finances, a police spokesman said Saturday.

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New restaurant seeks to bridge downtown, midtown

A concrete island in front of Spataro distanced the white-linen restaurant from its environs. That changes now, as Hock Farm Craft & Provisions takes over the building at 1415 L St. in downtown Sacramento

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Personal Finance: Be on guard against scams at tax time

By Claudia Buck - Updated: Sunday, March 31 2013 - 7:15 am