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• Amtrak unveils locomotives to replace aging fleet

  light rail vehicles in North America and is building light rail vehicles for Minneapolis, Houston and San Diego at the Sacramento plant where Amtrak's locomotives are being produced.Among the improvements in the new locomotives are computers that can diagnose   Read more »

• Charles Francis Gaskins, white supremacist convicted of killing child molester, gets 26 years to life in prison

  child molestation.Gaskins and his wife -- Sandra Sheaves -- was living in a home she owned in Carmichael, a community outside of Sacramento, when they allowed the 66-year-old Hayes to move in. Gaskins had met Hayes while they were both serving time in prison,   Read more »

• Calif's 4 a.m. last call bill already fuels debate

  argue that establishments serving alcohol past 2 a.m. will produce significant problems.John Lovell , a lobbyist for the Sacramento-based California Police Chiefs Association, said an extended last call will further stretch many depleted law enforcement agencies   Read more »

• Scenic historic route for California Zephyr train

  warships are still afloat.By mid-morning, we were rolling across flat farmland and orchards. We arrived in Sacramento, the state capital, just after 11 a.m. There, volunteer docents from the California State Railway Museum - who serve in pairs from Sacramento   Read more »

Around the web

• Free the California 12! Activists March Clemency Petitions to Governor Jerry Brown

  members of the California Innocence Project are walking 600 miles from San Diego to Sacramento to draw attention to the “California 12”—a dozen inmates in California jails for whom there is powerful evidence of innocence. Brian Banks, a former high school 9:20 AM from Reason Read more »

• The Public Eye: Expert notes CPS missteps before Sacramento child hatchet murder

  children," Michelle Callejas, deputy director for CPS, said in a written statement. In response to a petition by The Bee, the Sacramento Superior Court last week released a 198-page juvenile court file about Matthew Hernandez. In addition to the neglect investigation, 3:17 AM from Sacramento Bee Read more »

• Program at Mather aids former Sacramento County foster kids

  that some young people would do better in transitional housing programs, in particular those who struggled in foster care. Sacramento County officials plan to continue Adolfo's $2 million annual appropriation for the coming fiscal year. It's not clear how 3:17 AM from Sacramento Bee Read more »

• Gov. Brown's school funding plan runs into lawmakers' concerns

  community, parent against parent." Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, convened a hearing on the matter in the Assembly Education Committee the next day, and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, reiterated his own reservations about 3:14 AM from Sacramento Bee Read more »

• Editorial: Paper prints news as it sees fit,raises a First Amendment ruckus

  a three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeal, 3rd District, will convene in the Stanley Mosk Courts Building in Sacramento to take up a case involving Crews that is fundamental to the First Amendment. The case arose when Crews got wind that public 3:11 AM from Sacramento Bee Read more »