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Back-seat Driver: Cal Expo monorail saved

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

In Sacramento this week, a beloved "people mover" is saved, two more projects are headed down the track, and a fourth is stalled at the station ... Cal Expo monorail rolling ... Fingers crossed, State Fair officials say they think they'll have their popular monorail back on track for July's fair after a year of tense fixes ... They've been updating the old trains, but for a while, it was going all wrong. Doors wouldn't open. Doors wouldn't close. Trains refused to leave the station. Trains

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Two Sacramento H1N1 vaccine clinics are set

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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 3:47 p.m.

Two free H1N1 vaccine clinics will be hosted by Sacramento County this week ... The first clinic is 2 - 5 p.m. Thursday in the Sam Pannell Community Center gymnasium at 2450 Meadowview Road, Sacramento ... The second is 2 - 5 p.m. Friday in the Robertson Community Center at 3525 Norwood Ave., Sacramento ...

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Charter school focusing on Hmong children proposed in Sacramento

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Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.

A group of Sacramento parents, educators and business professionals wants to open a charter school that will focus on teaching Hmong children, who have largely fallen through the cracks at regular public schools ... Hmong students in the Sacramento City Unified School District had the lowest scores – collectively – of all the district's ethnic groups on the English language arts section of standardized tests last year and the year before ... Studies show Hmong struggle in school districts

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Sacramento County H1N1 vaccination clinics

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Published Nov. 18, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.

Sacramento County has scheduled free H1N1 vaccination clinics through January. Other area counties have yet to schedule clinics ... The first week of clinics in Sacramento County, through Nov. 24, is limited to county residents in one of these groups: pregnant women; health care workers; people ages 6 months to 24 years; adults ages 24 to 64 with underlying medical conditions; and people caring for children under 6 months old. Subsequent clinics are open to all county residents ... Here is the

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Sacramento defendant denies fatal stabbing, offers bizarre tale

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Published Nov. 11, 2009 at 4:09 p.m.
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Kevin Dunigan, who is accused of stabbing a Meadowview man in 1995, is representing himself ... Kevin Wayne Dunigan told the jury, "You're being deceived." ... Not only were police and prosecutors totally wrong for accusing him of the 1995 stabbing death of Gary Patrick Veirs, Dunigan said in his closing argument Tuesday, but he also had the cure for global warming and how to win the war in Afghanistan ... It was right after Dunigan told the panel, "I've been running the country," that former

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Sacramento County clinics to offer H1N1 vaccine to high-risk groups

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Published Nov. 12, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.
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Dr. Glennah Trochet ... To help stem the spread of the H1N1 virus, public health officials are recommending that people, particularly those in high-risk groups, get vaccinated ... Sacramento County kicks off its free H1N1 vaccination clinics Monday. The first round, through Nov. 24, are restricted to county residents in one of these priority groups: pregnant women; health care workers; people ages 6 months to 24 years; people with underlying medical conditions; people caring for children under 6

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Man killed in south Sacramento home invasion shooting

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Published Oct. 11, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.

A 24-year-old man was shot in an apparent home invasion and robbery in south Sacramento on Saturday night ... At around 8:20 p.m. Sacramento police received a call from the victim's girlfriend saying that two men had broken in and shot her boyfriend ... The woman and a 5-year-old girl in the house were not harmed ... The man was unconscious but breathing, and his girlfriend was attempting CPR, police said. He died at the hospital, police said ... Police did not release other details of the

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One dead, one critical after three-vehicle crash on I-5

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Published Aug. 24, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.

One motorist is dead and another suffered critical injuries this morning in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 in south Sacramento, according to a California Highway Patrol spokesman ... CHP officer Michael Bradley said the 7:10 a.m. accident on northbound I-5 at Meadowview Road happened when the driver of a car entered the freeway at a high rate of speed, lost control and hit a sports utility vehicle in the fast lane. The SUV then rear-ended another car ... The driver of the speeding car

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Interstate 5 Cleared After Fatal Crash

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Published Aug. 24, 2009 at 12:23 p.m.

A fatal crash blocked all lanes of northbound Interstate 5 near Meadowview Road this morning snarling the morning commute ...

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Murdered girl's family to press lawsuit against Sacramento County

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Published Aug. 22, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Tamaiyha Moore was placed in the foster system a month before she was killed in October 2007 ... Tamaiyha Moore's blood relatives said Friday that they're ready to roll with their civil suit against Sacramento County now that the foster mom who murdered the 17-month-old girl has been sent to prison ... "They really need to pay close attention where they're placing these children in the first place because ... they should have known the situation they put my grandchild in," the girl's

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