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Old-style bars give way to food-liquor establishments

By Ed Fletcher - Updated: 8:19 am

While the number of restaurants that sell alcohol continues to increase in California and the Sacramento region, the stand-alone bar is disappearing.

Nancy Garrido's lawyer dumped in abduction case

By Sam Stanton - Updated: 8:22 am

Nancy Garrido's court- appointed attorney has been removed from the case, pending a possible appeal later this month, court records indicate.

Woman pleads guilty in disability payment racket

By Robert D. Davila - Published: 8:33 am

A former California Employment Development Department worker has pleaded guilty to defrauding the state of more than $110,000 by approving false disability claims for friends.

Sacramento boy wins Mexican art contest

By Stephen Magagnini - Updated: 8:00 am

Juan Misael Gonzalez-Montañez, a shy 8-year-old who loves to draw, has won his family of six its first-ever computer.

Wagner sworn in as top U.S. attorney for Sacramento-based district

By Denny Walsh - Published: 12:00 am

Benjamin Wagner, a top federal prosecutor for more than 15 years, was sworn in Monday as the 10th U.S. attorney in the Sacramento-based Eastern District of California.

Upscale Granite Bay center seeks to dig out of debt

Granite Bay's swanky Quarry Ponds center has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization – a step, its owner says, toward getting back in the black.

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Sacramento

Sacramento officials push for Capitol Mall redesign

Paris has the Champs-Élysées. In Barcelona, it's Las Ramblas. And in Washington, D.C., it's the National Mall. Sacramento has an underachieving Capitol Mall.

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Public Eye

U.S. stimulus money goes toward jobs in UC system

The University of California system has been awarded $717.5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds - the fourth-largest amount in the state.

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Back-Seat Driver

Back-seat Driver: Cell phones and bicyclists mix? You judge

We reported last week that California's handheld cell phone ban does not apply to bicyclists. The bill's author and the CHP say so.

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Home Front

Fiorina keynote speech could include surprise

Carly Fiorina's keynote address next Thursday at the annual Sacramento Regional Housing Forecast is giving a whole new groove to an affair where homebuilders mope about how awful things are.

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Access Sacramento

See community media blog and news about programming from local cable-access provider.

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