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Plans for Sacramento airport public art on exhibit

Joan Moment’s “Fragment of the Universe” is proposed as a floor design for the new airport terminal. The public’s perception of the artist – a lonely genius starving in a garret, obsessively pursuing a singular vision – is a hangover from the 19th century.

Data Surfer: Map shows stimulus road projects in your region

There are 305 highway construction projects financed by the federal stimulus currently underway or completed in California . That’s according to new data released by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association which estimates these

Suspect in 2005 Homicide Extradited from the Country of Georgia

On March 11, 2010, at 11:00 p.m., Sacramento County Sheriff’s Homicide detectives booked 54-year-old Nazir Ahmad Fazel into the Sacramento County Main Jail on the charge of murder.

Daylight-saving time returns Sunday morning

Daylight-saving time returns at 2 a.m. Sunday, which means it is a good idea to set clocks forward one hour before heading to bed Saturday night.

California exports rise in January

California exports continued to rebound in January, with the value of shipments up nearly 18.5 percent compared with the same month last year. While 2009 was a dismal year for trade numbers, January marked the third consecutive month of year-over-year increases in California export trade, according to the University of California Center Sacramento, which based its analysis on U.S.

AM Capitol Alert: Of choirs and courts

Sometimes it pays to have a governor who was born in another country. The Vienna Boys Choir is making a swing through the United States. That’s Vienna as in Austria, from whence Gov

Sacramento vies for Teach for America teachers

Sacramento is a finalist for Teach for America, a program that sends highly motivated college graduates into troubled schools. As a community, Sacramento would have to raise $2.7 million within the next month to become one of three cities to which the program will expand next year.

First Tech Credit Union to merge with Addison Avenue

Oregon’s second-largest credit union announced Wednesday that it plans to merge with a California peer to become one of the 15 largest credit unions in the country.

Courts Bringing Hammer Down On Jurors’ Texting

Enough with the tweets, the blogs, the Internet searches. That’s the message being communicated by courts across the country as jurors using their portable electronic devices continue to cause mistrials, overturned convictions and chaotic delays in court proceedings

Airport body scanners headed to California airports

The Transportation Security Administration is spreading airport body-scanner technology across the country.