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Pentagon shooter had a history of mental illness

In this image from video provided by WJLA-TV, a person on a stretcher is loaded into an ambulance outside the Pentagon Metro Station Thursday, March 4, 2010, in Washington. A gunman opened fire at the subway entrance to Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two Pentagon police officers, a spokesman said.

Sacramento County may get sexually violent predator

A public hearing is scheduled for next month to vet the placement of a seventh “sexually violent predator” in Sacramento County. The state’s Department of Mental Health, which oversees the treatment program for such sex offenders, is proposing to release 61-year-old Steven Joseph Jones into his home county of Sacramento, according to local authorities.

Q&A: Mexico interested in Megan’s Law, ambassador says

Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan shakes hands with Truckee Police Chief Nicholas A. Sensley

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

Capitol Alert: Adult day health services patients hit by major privacy breach

The Department of Health Care Services said today it may have breached the privacy of 49,352 state residents who receive adult day health care services from the state. In a terse news release, the department said that letters it mailed a week ago to 49,352 beneficiaries wrongly included those patients’ Social Security Number on address labels

Sac PD: Security guard in shooting unlikely to be charged

A security guard who shot a man at North Sacramento bar last weekend likely won’t face criminal charges, according to police. It appears the man acted in self defense and fired his gun because he “felt his life was in danger” during an assault at a Del Paso Boulevard bar, said police spokesman Officer Konrad von Schoech.

White House gate crashers invoke Fifth Amendment

Tareq Salahi, left, and Michaele Salahi, right,listen to their attorney Stephen Best,on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, while testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee. White House gate crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Wednesday, refusing to answer a House committee’s questions about their uninvited appearance at a state dinner

Report: Security guard shoots, wounds man in N. Sacramento

By Andy Furillo afurillo@sacbee.com A security guard working at a bar on Del Paso Boulevard shot and wounded a patron who assaulted him and pulled a gun on him early today, Sacramento police said. The man who was wounded in the 1:23 a.m.

Aid groups struggle to get food, water to Haitians

A coffin containing the body of an earthquake victim sits in the street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan.

Security at SFO to be improved

San Francisco International Airport is beefing up its security. Mayor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday the airport has obtained a $5 million grant from the federal government to buy new, high-definition surveillance cameras that can capture images in greater detail and include facial recognition technology