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Three plead guilty; impersonated FBI agents

Three people who pretended to be federal agents pleaded guilty to conspiracy in federal court in Sacramento.

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Prep blog: CIF to keep bowl games at Home Depot Center

The Home Depot Center in Carson will remain the host site for the California Interscholastic Federation state football bowl championship games it was announced today. The CIF and representatives from the Home Depot Center signed a three-year deal that will run through the 2012 season.

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After three murder trials, Placer County suspect released

By Ed Fletcher efletcher@sacbee.com After more than four years behind bars while facing three jury trials for the 2005 stabbing death of his friend, Caleb John Madsen became a free man Monday afternoon. Standing outside the Auburn Jail, from which Madsen was soon to be released, the victim’s mother and Madsen’s attorney felt shorted by the wheels of justice. “The justice system failed in this case,” said Linda Worth, mother of slain teen Christopher Worth

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Sacto 9-1-1: Three plead guilty in strong-arm scheme

Three people have pleaded guilty to a bizarre strong-arm scheme to recover money for victims of an alleged $40 million Ponzi ring in Folsom. But the alleged leader of the strong-arm operation, Michael David Sanders, continues to maintain his innocence and is set to go to trial March 1 in U.S.

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Browns release WR Stallworth

Donte’ Stallworth will get the chance to resurrect his NFL career, but it won’t happen in Cleveland. The Browns released the troubled wide receiver on Monday, wasting little time after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday that Stallworth would be reinstated following the Super Bowl.

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Waste Connections profit, revenue increase

Waste Connections Inc. of Folsom reported fourth-quarter adjusted net income of $29.3 million, or 37 cents a share, compared to $24.3 million, or 30 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter

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First 5 awards $16M to Sacramento County

The First 5 Sacramento Commission has awarded $16 million to local organizations to improve children’s programs in Sacramento County.

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First 5 awards $16M to Sacramento County

Sac State president gets good review

The president of California State University Sacramento received a good sixth-year review from his boss.

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Sac State president gets good review

Schwarzenegger, Coe to run Vancouver torch relay

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, center, meets with residents and Los Angeles County Public Works workers as they clean up after storms caused mudslides that swept through a neighborhood near burn areas in La Canada Flintridge, Calif

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Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77

FILE – In this April 16, 2008, file photo shows Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa

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