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Court-bound housing meltdown is stark at Plumas Lake

By Hudson Sangree - Published: 12:00 am

At the height of the housing bubble, Plumas Lake seemed like a good deal to buyers willing to trade a long commute for a big house.

Median home sale price up a bit in Sacramento County

Utah's experiment with 4-day workweek has lessons for California

By Jon Ortiz - Published: 12:00 am

As Gov. Jerry Brown and labor unions negotiate to put state workers on a four-day, 38-hour workweek to cut payroll costs, they could learn a lot by looking east – to Utah.

Sacramento Music Festival aims for turnaround

By Edward Ortiz - Published: 12:00 am

Welcome the Sacramento Music Festival, and say goodbye to the Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee.

Job Front: Returning to former job is sometimes best option

By Darrell Smith - Published: 12:00 am

Sometimes the best opportunity is going back to work with your former boss.

Q&A: Dr. Ernie Bodai, on global breast cancer stamp, Proposition 29

By Claudia Buck - Published: 12:00 am

Dr. Ernie Bodai's pace is unrelenting. At 61, the Hungarian-born surgeon is actively promoting his global breast cancer stamp, campaigning for a tobacco tax on the June ballot and still treating patients as director of Kaiser Permanente's breast surgical services. We caught up with him by phone to talk about cancer developments. Here's an excerpt:

Cosumnes River College wins state baseball championship

By John Parker - Published: 12:00 am

BAKERSFIELD – Teams have to expend incredible energy to reach a championship game. Once they do, attrition often forces games to be decided by guts, guile and resilience.

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THIS IS A COMPOSITE IMAGE MADE FROM SEVERAL PHOTOS-- A multiple exposure of the annular solar eclipse over Mt Shasta near McCloud on Sunday, May 20, 2012.
Jose Luis Villegas / jvillegas@sacbee.com

Gabrielle Hartzell, 7, waits to do her Tahitian dance on Sunday morning at the Wells Fargo Stage in Old Sacramento. This is the 20th anniversary of this celebration of Asian Pacific Islander heritage and culture. The Pacific Rim Street Festival is one Sacramento's longest running street festivals and each year attracts more than 25,000 people to the one-day event. The Street Festival has become a Sacramento tradition, represents both Sacramento's diversity and community strength, and is a model of bringing together volunteers, sponsors and community leaders.View a photo gallery.
Randy Pench / rpench@sacbee.com

The annular eclipse is seen through binoculars which cast two images of the rarely seen ring of fire. People all around the world tried to catch a glimse of the bright object. Sunday, May 20, 2012.
Jose Luis Villegas / jvillegas@sacbee.com

Alyssa Fong cools Genessa Stanford Jhada Stanford in the fountain at Fremont Park in midtown Sacramento as temperatures topped 95 degrees on Sunday afternoon.
Darron Cummings / AP

Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade, left, LeBron James (6) and Mario Chalmers celebrate during the second half of Game 4 of their NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series against the Indiana Pacers, Sunday, May 20, 2012, in Indianapolis. Miami won 101-93.