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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.

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

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

El Dorado Irrigation District customers will face higher water and sewer rates in the coming year. The question is how much higher.

The Sacramento SPCA will be giving away coupons for cat food and other supplies Saturday to pet owners affected by the recession.

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.

Today

The dramatic fatal crash of a big rig Monday on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has spotlighted yet another safety concern on the troubled span.

Where Lakshmi comes from in India, calling authorities for help is an alien concept.

MINERAL – A large meadow, a small but cherished lake and historic facilities at Drakesbad Guest Ranch are slated for changes under a comprehensive plan proposed by Lassen Volcanic National Park officials.

Folsom Cordova Unified School District is considering shaving a class period off the school day for high school juniors and seniors to help shore up a $10.6 million budget deficit projected for next year.

Leslie Lohse, leader of a small band of Indians in Tehama County, recently found herself speaking directly to President Barack Obama – one chief of state to another.

The Sacramento-area Boy Scouts of America will collect e-waste at St. Mel Catholic Church, 4745 Pennsylvania Ave. in Fair Oaks, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Veteran's Day will be celebrated throughout the region with a variety of observances today through Wednesday.

From the painful pay cuts to extra minutes in the DMV queue, the toxic side effects of "Furlough Fridays" on California state employees have been thoroughly quantified.

TUESDAY

A two-alarm fire burned down a Carmichael home Sunday night and sent a teenage girl to the hospital with minor burns.

The following agencies will be closed Wednesday in honor of Veterans Day:

Recruiting at churches, schools, job fairs and community events, the Sacramento branch has nearly tripled from 323 adult members to 845 over the past 14 months, with another 45 youth members, said president Betty Williams.

For thousands of U.S. Marines, the road to Afghanistan goes through an isolated training facility in the Eastern Sierra where they share the rugged Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest with civilian hunters, backpackers and skiers.

Seven people have been arrested in connection with an assault and kidnapping that occurred last month at Red Hawk Casino in El Dorado County.

The answers to the questions of why only some people get funny-smelling urine after eating asparagus, develop Alzheimer's in old age or sneeze when looking at the sun depends on their genome.

Robert L. Moore Jr., a Sacramento civic leader and businessman who led his family's Orchard Supply Co., has died at age 95.

The city of Citrus Heights is taking a page from Sacramento's book in its efforts to transform a blighted stretch of Sayonara Drive into a better place to live.

VETERANS DAY CLOSURES

MONDAY

For five desperate minutes, emergency room doctors at UC Davis Medical Center frantically tried to revive Scott Hawkins.

The most effective man fighting to deny the right of gay marriage in America is Frank Schubert of Sacramento.

This week's defeat by Davis voters of a solar-powered development means the city probably won't grow beyond its current borders so long as residents have the final word, developers and former mayors said in the election's aftermath.