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.

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.

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

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