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Many baseball players use music for introductions

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Published May 23, 2010 at 10:39 a.m.
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The bossa nova beat, rapped gently on a Gretsch mod orange drum set, cuts through the cool AT&T Park air in a quick 4/4 time ... You know the day destroys the night, ... Night divides the day … ... Two measures later, in perfect syncopation, the Fender/Rhodes piano bass and Vox Continental organ join in, followed by the Gibson SG electric guitar's evocative riff ... Tried to run, Tried to hide … ... Then, descending from the ether and settling upon the diamond, the feral and haunted voice of

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Sacramento pot farmer's mom went to jail for what he does legally

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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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David Tat Chow's mother and stepfather were sentenced to three years in state prison on marijuana charges. Now Chow grows marijuana for medicinal uses on his small farm and teaches the art of cultivating the weed. "My parents were made an example," he says. "(The authorities) said, 'If you grow marijuana, we're going to put you in prison – and we're going to take your property.' " ... Down a rutted dirt road from Garden Highway and the Sacramento River levee, organic farmer David Tat Chow

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A boy's life mended

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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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While he waits for a medical checkup, Lovensky Alexandre, 7, examines the scar left from the surgery that closed a hole in his heart. Doctors at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento donated their services after a Sacramento fire captain, volunteering in Haiti after the quake, met Lovensky and his mother ... Lovensky Alexandre, a tiny boy with a hole in his heart, came to Sacramento from the devastation of the earthquake in Haiti ... The frail 7-year-old showed up in March with an eager grin and a

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Gunther's Ice Cream parlor serves up 70th birthday party

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Published May 14, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Sarah Namestka, 20 months, enjoys her first visit to Gunther's Ice Cream with grandfather Don Namestka, 78. The ice cream parlor celebrates the 70th anniversary of its founding Saturday with a party featuring its first employee ... There are memories here, from the mint chocolate chip ice cream to the words scratched into worn wooden booths to the neon Jugglin' Joe flashing above the tiny corner shop ... On a sun-soaked, made-for-ice cream May day, Jenifer Namestka and daughter Sarah of El

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State releases new details about home where foster child mysteriously died

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:10 a.m.
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Tracy Dossman, with nephew Brandon Dossman, is no longer a fosterparent. The state wants to keep it that way, but she is fighting back ... Child abuse and neglect were rampant in a crowded North Natomas foster home, where children attacked one another, their phone usage was tightly controlled and their foster mother lied to social workers about the chaotic conditions, according to new accusations by the California Department of Social Services ... Former foster provider Tracy Dossman, 42, is the

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Couple pay city shelter to reclaim seven cats seized in earlier raid

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

A Sacramento couple whom authorities have described as animal "hoarders" paid the city animal shelter $4,000 on Thursday to reclaim seven of 77 cats seized from their home in October ... Paul and Kathy Franco agreed to pony up an additional $2,000 by June 30, said Penny Cistaro, Sacramento City Animal Shelter manager ... The Francos pleaded guilty to misdemeanor animal cruelty after shelter workers, with the help of a police SWAT team, raided their home and captured dozens of felines that they

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At California State Railroad Museum, photo exhibit focuses on the humanity of agriculture

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Published March 15, 2010 at 1:02 p.m.
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MICHAEL ALLEN JONES mjones@sacbee.comAuthor-photographer Rick Nahmias at the California State Railroad Museum, where his "Migrant Project" is on display. "If there is one thing I hope people take away from this work is that these are human beings," he says ... Rick Nahmias has a documentarian's eye for society's fringe – the forgotten, the invisible, the underserved, the overlooked ... The Southern California photographer captured a transgender gospel choir in San Francisco and Zen Buddhists

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Accusations continue to fly in Sacramento sheriff's race

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Published April 30, 2010 at 8:20 a.m.
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Capt. Scott Jones, standing at center, listens to Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness discuss a 2004 probe of Jones at a news conference Thursday at the Sheriff's Department headquarters ... For Sacramento, this may be the most entertaining political race in the last 20 years ... It was already like film noir, and on Thursday the Sacramento County sheriff's race descended into bizarre tales of a secret investigation, shredded documents, suburban motel rooms and lies ... All of it was aimed

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Natsoulas, Fouts shows feature the human figure

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Published March 19, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

"The Art of Painting in the 21st Century" at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis and "Go Figure!" at the Elliot Fouts Gallery in east Sacramento demonstrate the continuing primacy of the human figure as a subject for artists in Northern California ... The figure is very much in the ascendance in the Davis show, which was mounted in conjunction with the Natsoulas Gallery's recent conference on the state of painting today. Determining the art of painting in the 21st century is a big order, but

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Gang member guilty in Sacramento deputy's slaying

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Published April 29, 2010 at 10:02 a.m.
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Jimmy Siackasorn, 19, listens to the guilty verdict in his trial Wednesday at Sacramento Superior Court. He faces sentencing May 26 in the 2007 slaying of sheriff's Detective Vu Nguyen. At right is Assistant Public Defender Sue Karlton ... A courtroom filled shoulder-to-shoulder with police officers and sheriff's deputies reacted in powerful silence Wednesday when a jury convicted a Sacramento street gang member of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a brother lawman ... Outside the

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