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Live video, live blog: Sacramento Kings rally

Updated: 6:48 pm

Thousands of Sacramento Kings fans are turning out this evening to celebrate the team's future here. Follow updates about the Long Live the Kings rally, with photos, here in this live blog. The rally is 5-9 p.m. at Cesar Chavez Plaza.

Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

By DAVID CRARY and NOMAAN MERCHANT - Updated: 6:05 pm

The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors.

Sacramento doctor convicted of sexually abusing patients

By Andy Furillo - Updated: 3:06 pm

A Sacramento Superior Court jury today convicted Dr. Scott Dodd Anderson on six counts of sexually abusing two of his patients four years ago at a workers' comp clinic on Folsom Boulevard.

Replica of Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall comes to Fair Oaks

By Richard Chang - Updated: 5:05 pm

Replica of Vietnam Vetrans' Memorial arrives in Fair Oaks

Nearly 40 years after the last shots of the Vietnam War were fired in Saigon, South Vietnam, Daniel Williams, 74, still remembers vividly the battles he fought in rice fields during the conflict.

James Hunter Six headlines Sacramento Music Festival

By Edward Ortiz - Updated: 12:35 pm

He's not trying to break your heart or revive the soul-and-R&B past.

Sheriff's helicopter gets kids' attention

By Tillie Fong - Published: 6:21 pm

Excited shouts of "it's coming, it's coming" went up from a crowd of students at Whitney Avenue Elementary School as a Sacramento County sheriff's helicopter came in for a landing onto the baseball field.

Star Vlll Helicopter Visits Whitney Avenue Elementary

California health exchange reveals premium costs

By Jim Sanders - Published: 9:22 am

Californians received the bottom line Thursday on which insurance firms will sell policies on the state's new health-care exchange this fall and how much those premiums will cost.

Map: Many rural Northern California cities losing residents

By Phillip Reese - Updated: 9:54 am

About 50 California cities saw populations declines last year, even as most California cities grew slowly, new census figures show.

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100 year-old Isaac Ortiz and his wife Isabel Ortiz, of Sacramento, were first in line at the southwest entrance to Cesar Chavez Park for the Sacramento Kings rally on Thursday night, May 23, 2013 in downtown Sacramento, Calif. View a photo gallery.
Hector Amezcua / hamezcua@sacbee.com

Vivek Ranadive celebrates with Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson before a rally for the city on keeping the Kings on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at Cesar Chavez Plaza in Sacramento, Calif. View a photo gallery.
Renee C. Byer / rbyer@sacbee.com

A'Dre Taylor, 8, looks through a pair of binoculars for the first time. "Awesome!" he said. The Sacramento Sheriff's Department aimed at improving the Arden Arcade neighborhood flew the Star Vlll helicopter there for a high tech show and tell with Whitney Avenue Elementary school students. Photo taken May 23, 2013 in Sacramento, California. View a photo gallery.
Evan Vucci / AP

Staff Sgt. Joelle Monroe, of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard, places flags at grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery as part of the annual "Flags-In" ceremony in preparation for Memorial Day on Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Arlington, Va.
Jae C. Hong / AP

Former Vietnam POW Orson Swindle, right, gets a hug from Jim Janeway as he arrives to celebrate the 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., Thursday, May 23, 2013.