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Sacramento County animal shelter reduces its hours July 1

Sacramento County’s new animal shelter is reducing its hours starting July 1.

Yolo County proposes layoffs, spending cut

A $308 million Yolo County budget proposed for next fiscal year calls for 48 layoffs and a $16.3 million cut in spending on operating costs from the current year, officials said. The 2010-11 spending plan, which was publicly released today, would represent the third consecutive year of net decline in operations, according to a press release by the county administrator’s office.

Charges fly in Placer County supervisor’s race

With Election Day right around the corner, the two candidates for Placer County First Supervisorial District are trading barbs over the source of the other’s campaign funding.

Auburn turns to volunteers for parking enforcement

Starting Monday, parking enforcement in the city of Auburn will be handled by Police Department volunteers, according to a press release from Chief Valerie E. Harris. The volunteers will take over the duty from patrol officers, who have limited enforcement to responding to complaints because of budget cuts, the chief said

Sacramento man to be arraigned for drug bust in Solano County

A Sacramento man is scheduled to be arraigned today in Solano Superior Court after deputies said they caught him with more than five pounds of methamphetamine. Rene Munoz, 22, was arrested Tuesday when Solano County Sheriff’s deputies stopped his truck for erratic driving on Interstate 80 near Dixon

Sacramento County sued over cuts to probation funds

The Sacramento County Probation Association and Crime Victims United of California on Thursday filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court to prevent more massive cuts to the county’s probation department. The suit comes the same day as an education coalition filed an “adequacy” lawsuit against the state over education funding and the quality of schools. Disability rights groups filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this month to stop proposed cuts to mental health in Sacramento County

49ers Blog: 49ers promote Baalke to VP of player personnel

Trent Baalke’s two-month tryout as the team’s top personnel man apparently went very well. The team announced today that Baalke, who ran the draft for the 49ers, has been named Vice President of Player Personnel.

Sacto 9-1-1: Suspect in Woodland sexual assault arrested

A man has been arrested in a weekend sexual attack after accounts of the crime prompted a citizen to note apparent similarities between the suspect and a Woodland resident. A woman managed to escape a would-be rapist after being forced into a car at gunpoint on a main Woodland street at around 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

Sacto 9-1-1: Mother believed to have abducted 3-year-old son

Elk Grove Police are seeking a 3-year-old boy abducted by his mother during a supervised visit at 12:36 p.m. Sunday. Police say Latoya Washington, 24, handed her 3-year-old son Cortrele Clayton to an unidentified man during a visit in the 8700 block of Elk Grove Blvd

Natomas Unified selects south state superintendent

Barbara Plough Barbara “Bobbie” Plough was named superintendent of the Natomas Unified School District at a board meeting Thursday evening. She is currently the superintendent of the Romoland School District in Riverside County. “The prospective superintendent comes from a diverse school district in Southern California that made strong advances in student achievement under her leadership, making triple-digit gains in district achievement scores and is now poised to shed the federal designation as a failing district,” according to a press release from the district