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

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Nancy Garrido's court- appointed attorney has been removed from the case, pending a possible appeal later this month, court records indicate.
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.
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Juan Misael Gonzalez-Montañez, a shy 8-year-old who loves to draw, has won his family of six its first-ever computer.
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
Bob Shallit Granite Bay's swanky Quarry Ponds center has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization – a step, its owner says, toward getting back in the black.

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.

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.

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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