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Stockton’s housing boom ride ends with slow motion fall off financial cliff

STOCKTON - A red, white and blue sign declaring Stockton an "All-America City" still adorns City Hall, but the building's crumbling facade tells the real story of the community's recent fortunes.

March 11, 2012 | | State


Past pension boosts deferred costs

SACRAMENTO (AP) - The recent loss of tens of billions of dollars from California's public pension funds may have raised awareness about the high cost of guaranteed benefits for public workers, but reform advocates say the unsustainable system has been years - or even decades - in the making.

March 11, 2012 | | State


State news briefs

'SPEED FREAK KILLER' SENDS NEW LETTER TO STATION: SACRAMENTO . (AP) - Sacramento television station CBS-13 has received a second letter from serial killer Wesley Shermantine, with this letter claiming that he knows of more than 70 murder victims. Shermantine wrote reporter Koula Gianulias saying that his accomplice, Loren ...

March 09, 2012 | | State


Parents Television Council likes 'Bully' rating

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A petition urging the film-ratings board to overturn the "R'' rating it gave to the teen-centric documentary "Bully" has garnered more than 250,000 signatures, but at least one organization is OK with the decision. The Parents Television Council praised the Motion Picture Association of America for maintaining the rating despite pressure from the public and the film's distributors ...

March 09, 2012 | | State












Bay Area briefs

BART service cuts unlikely OAKLAND (AP) - The Bay Area Rapid Transit Agency has more than enough money to cover its operating costs next year, but should set aside money for new rail cars. That was the message from BART budget planners, as the agency's board of directors began the process on Thursday of setting a budget for the fiscal year set to ...

March 09, 2012 | | State


School district mulls fate of teacher

March 08, 2012 | | State




Murder charge for man with cannon-like device

EL CAJON (AP) - A San Diego County man who allegedly ignited a homemade cannon that exploded and killed his live-in girlfriend was charged with murder on Thursday. Prosecutors said Richard Fox was drinking with his girlfriend and friends Tuesday at the home in Potrero, a tiny rural community near the Mexican border. Fox went outside and lit the fuse to a ...

March 08, 2012 | | State


Schools liable for hiring molesters

March 08, 2012 | | State


State news briefs

SACRAMENTO CO. BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT KILLED BY COP: CITRUS HEIGHTS (AP) - Police shot and killed a man suspected of robbing a Sacramento County bank and threatening to detonate an explosive device.

March 08, 2012 | | State


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Bay Bridge base rods can’t be easily inspected

OAKLAND (AP) - More than 400 seismic safety rods that may be vulnerable to cracking or breaking are embedded in the base of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and may be difficult to inspect, remove or replace, according to a newspaper report.

May 12, 2013 | | State


One by one, homes in subdivision sinking

LAKEPORT (AP) - Scott and Robin Spivey had a sinking feeling that something was wrong with their home when cracks began snaking across their walls in March.

May 12, 2013 | | State




















State news briefs

DRIVER REACHING FOR DRINK HITS WOMAN, 3 CHILDREN: SAN DIEGO (AP) - Authorities say an unlicensed driver reaching for a spilled drink ran onto a sidewalk in San Diego and struck a mother and three children.

May 10, 2013 | | State


Deadly America's Cup boat mishap

May 09, 2013 | | State




Small quake shakes west side of LA

May 09, 2013 | | State


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