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Weekend catch-up: 7 stories you don’t want to miss

Molly Sparrowk, 18, of Clements, competes in the finals of the Girls Cutting Competition at the California High School Rodeo Association's Challenge of Champions in Plymouth on Friday, March 18, 2016.
Molly Sparrowk, 18, of Clements, competes in the finals of the Girls Cutting Competition at the California High School Rodeo Association's Challenge of Champions in Plymouth on Friday, March 18, 2016. hamezcua@sacbee.com

Here are seven stories from the weekend that you will want to catch up on before the work week hits.

1. Train hero Spencer Stone's father, two others indicted in arson fraud scheme

Three men, including the father of French train hero Spencer Stone, were indicted Friday on charges of collecting $1.5 million in insurance money in an arson fraud scheme that included setting fires at Sacramento-area commercial buildings.

2. Coding courses a rarity in California high schools despite tech explosion

The large majority of California's public high schools don't offer dedicated computer science or computer programming courses, according to a Sacramento Bee review of teacher assignment data from the California Department of Education.

3. City school parents decry 'deplorable' fields despite 2012 bond

Despite voter approval of more than $400 million in bonds less than four years ago, McClatchy booster club leaders are worried that no help is in sight for the school founded in 1937.

4. A talker: California condoms in porn measure tests merits of covering up

Positive HIV tests of adult film stars have repeatedly rattled the pornography industry in recent years, amplifying calls to better protect performers.

5. Popular on Twitter: Ailene Voisin: Golden 1 Center gives ex-councilman Cohn emotional boost

As relocation threats hovered and repeated arena incarnations failed at sites in the railyard, at Cal Expo, in Natomas, at the current preferred site downtown, former Sacramento City Council member Steve Cohn emerged as an impassioned, influential figure in the public-private partnership that spawned the soon-to-be completed Golden 1 Center.

6. Popular on Facebook: Elk Grove girls beat odds, Sacramento for NorCal D-II title

Trailing 9-0 early but refusing to buckle under the pressure of the moment or the magnitude of competing in this spacious venue, the 12th-seeded Thundering Herd rallied to topple seventh-seeded Sacramento 46-45 in the CIF Northern California Division II final.

7. Popular video: Molly Sparrowk continues family tradition at CHSRA's Challenge of Champions Rodeo

This story was originally published March 20, 2016 at 11:42 AM with the headline "Weekend catch-up: 7 stories you don’t want to miss."

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