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Elk Grove students power up medical solar suitcases to help save lives

By Diana Lambert - Published: 12:00 am

Engineering students at Cosumnes Oaks High School in Elk Grove are working to save lives.

Bay Bridge S-curve death highlights safety concerns

By Tony Bizjak - Published: 12:00 am

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.

Sacramento officials push for Capitol Mall redesign

By Ryan Lillis - Published: 12:00 am

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

Old-style bars give way to food-liquor establishments

By Ed Fletcher - Published: 12:00 am

Have you said goodbye to the corner bar yet? It may be about that time.

Sacramento boy wins Mexican art contest

By Stephen Magagnini - Published: 12:00 am

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

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.

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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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