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August 19, 2020

• Your takeout guide: Here are 10 great restaurants in the Sacramento area
• Driver deliberately smashes into patrol car and flips it, California cops say
• 4.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Death Valley and shakes Las Vegas, officials say
• California’s grid conditions improve but conservation still needed to avert blackouts today
• Stricter Sacramento rent control measure is back on the November ballot — for now
• Jones Fire still threatening Nevada County homes as California fires stretch resources thin
• Day-biting mosquitoes that can carry yellow fever, Zika virus spread to Yuba City
• 49ers mailbag: Is Brandon Aiyuk the next Deebo Samuel? How have other receivers looked?
• Video shows woman breaking COVID-19 rules, yelling racist insults at CA park worker
• California city rejects Black Lives Matter mural, says it’s too controversial
• Coronavirus updates: Placer officially off California watchlist; deaths slowing statewide
• More than 14,000 PG&E lose power for about an hour in Nevada County, no cause given
• South Lake Tahoe approves fines for mask violations in a bid to slow COVID-19 spread
• Fire that killed 5 deliberately set by three masked suspects, Colorado cops say
• AB 979 would put people of color on corporate boards in California. It deserves support
• Police arrest man after a vehicle hits woman riding Lime scooter in South Lake Tahoe
• Meet Mike Forde: The man who will help the Kings find new GM to replace Vlade Divac
• Elk Grove candidate criticized Hmong ‘clans men.’ New community group demands apology
• 49ers rookie Javon Kinlaw’s self scouting report: ‘I’d be lying if I thought it was good’
• Without state help, Sacramento’s Cal Expo will become another coronavirus casualty
• Californians confident in vote by mail + Flavored tobacco ban on hold + Prop. 15 and Newsom
• Here’s when you can visit national parks for free to celebrate their 104th birthday
• Sacramento police arrest suspect in fatal downtown hit-and-run
• High school coach arrested for alleged sexual assault on student, Sacramento Police say
• Golden State Killer DeAngelo gets surprise visit in court: His former fiancee, Bonnie
• California firefighters crowd into base camps every year. Here’s how COVID-19 is changing that
• California wildfire victims sent to motels instead of shelters, to lessen COVID-19 spread
• This SLO County ranch — where outlaw Jesse James once stayed — is for sale for $38 million
• What California wildfires mean for Sacramento air quality: Hazy skies, ash on cars
• Sacramento removes city law requiring people to stand and salute for national anthem
• Can California handle this many wildfires at once? Crews and equipment already ‘depleted’
• Did L.A. County wrongly promote a tax hike? It’ll pay hefty $1.35 million to settle claims
• 2 California correctional officers kept jobs after beating inmate and lying, report says
• Watch: California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds press conference on fires, blackouts, COVID-19
• Folsom Prison COVID-19 cases double, now California’s largest active inmate outbreak
• Travis AFB evacuated as LNU Lightning wildfires top 124,000 acres, destroy homes in Vacaville
• California power prices have skyrocketed. Is this normal — or more Enron-style ‘manipulation’?
• WeChat is a tie home for Chinese people in Sacramento. What a ban would mean for them