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Sacramento County increases holiday park fees

Sacramento County’s regional parks will impose a higher entrance fee for the Labor Day weekend, as the park system did for the July 4 and Memorial Day weekends.

Concert review: Deftones infuse show with sensuality

Metal music can be empowering, invigorating, aggression-relieving. Deftones’ show Sunday night at Sacramento’s Memorial Auditorium was all those things, along with being seductive in a way hard rock hardly ever is.

2010 Memorial Run kicked off Friday evening

2010 Memorial Run charity motorcycle ride starts in Sacramento and ends in Isleton.

War memorial caretaker sentenced for faking medals

Prosecutors say 60-year-old Kenneth Nelson, the unofficial caretaker of Sacramento’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, claimed for 20 years that he was a Vietnam War hero, though he never saw combat.

Downtown YWCA to celebrate renovation today

Officials today will mark the refurbishment of the downtown YWCA, a provider of low-cost housing for nearly 80 years. A total of $2.6 million was spent to rehabilitate the white brick building at 1122 17th St. The 31 units were renovated so that the historic building could continue to serve low- and very low-income residents.

Three leading halfway through local U.S. Open qualifying

Stanford senior Joseph Bramlett, Erick Justesen of Sacramento and Paul Imondi of Tustin shot 6-under-par 65s to break the course record at Del Paso Country Club on Monday to lead U.S. Open sectional qualifying after 18 holes. The top four players in the field of 87 after 36 holes advance to next week’s U.S

Fewer Road Deaths This Memorial Day Weekend

The California Highway Patrol says there was a steep drop in the number of traffic fatalities over Memorial Day weekend this year.

CHP: Fewer road deaths over Memorial Day weekend

The California Highway Patrol said there was a steep drop in the number of traffic fatalities over Memorial Day weekend this year.

Sacto 9-1-1: CHP: Memorial Day weekend safest in years

Statewide this Memorial Day weekend was one of the safest in years for California drivers, CHP officials said today. This year, 11 motor vehicle accidents over the holiday weekend resulted in 17 fatalities, a 62 percent drop from the 2009 statewide total of 45. In 2008, the statewide total was 38 people killed in traffic accidents.

Thousands in Sacramento honor the fallen on Memorial Day

Marines stand at ease on the hillside during a Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday, at the Idaho Veterans Cemetery in Boise, Idaho. As thousands of Memorial Day remembrances took place nationwide, here in the Sacramento area dozens of emotional ceremonies over the three-day weekend drew tens of thousands of people. Some events took place Saturday and Sunday, but most were held today