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Sacramento postal worker indicted for worker’s comp fraud

A federal grand jury has indicted a 46-year-old Sacramento postal worker for allegedly illegally claiming $278,000 in workers’ compensation benefits, according to the U.S. attorney Benjamin Wagner.

Presidents Day closures

The following agencies are closed Monday in honor of Presidents Day: • Federal offices • State offices • Postal Service • Most county and city offices • El Dorado Transit • Elk Grove etran • Placer County Transit • Placer Commuter Express The following agencies are open Monday: • Sacramento Regional Transit operates a weekday schedule with trips marked “H” not running • Yolobus operates a Sunday schedule

Cops: Postal pot lands inmate’s girlfriend in jail, too

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that jail staff members open mail sent to and from inmates – except the legal kind – but it proved to be one nevertheless for one giving girlfriend. Jennifer Beals, 37, was arrested Monday night for allegedly sending some pot to her boyfriend, an inmate at the Rio Cosumnes Correction Center, via mail, said Sacramento County Sheriff’s Sgt

West Sacramento center handles blizzard of mail today

Today is the busiest mailing day for the US Postal Service. About 7 million packages, letters and greeting cards are expected to come into the big processing center on West Sacramento’s Industrial Boulevard.

Thanksgiving closures

CLOSED THURSDAY” Federal offices” Postal Service” Placer Coun

Database: Are you due a tax refund?

Postal employee Jerry Row (cq), a 38-year veteran of the postal service, sorts some of the millions of pieces of mail that will filter through the government’s West Sacramento facility Thursday, April 15, 2004. Traditionally, the already heavy volume of mail handled at the facility surges on this day as thousands of last-minute taxpayers rush to beat the IRS’ midnight deadline for filing their returns.