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SAN FRANCISCO – Sacramento-based Sutter Health, and its affiliate Sutter Bay Hospitals, the successor to Sutter East Bay Hospitals dba Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (collectively Sutter Health), will pay more than $13 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. Sutter Health was found to have billed
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Today, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s office issued a stark warning – Rainbow Fentanyl is on the streets, and it’s deadly. The deadly narcotic is manufactured to look like candies that could be attractive to children and teens. The discovery came from a recent fentanyl fake M30 pill seizure
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Today a lawsuit was filed against the City of Elk Grove for rejecting a proposed supportive housing project in the city’s Old Town Special Planning Area. As a result of that rejection and the approval of a nearby Old Town market-rate apartment project, the proposed and rejected Oak Rose
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A Florida man who was convicted yesterday could face up to a 20-year for his role in former President Donald Trump’s attempted coup d’é·tat. John Herbert Strand, 39, of Naples, Florida, was found guilty by a jury of a total of five offenses, including one felony, in
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A Sacramento, California man pled guilty yesterday to a federal charge of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Alvin Lucas, 41, of Sacramento, Calif. pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Gulfport, Miss. Evidence obtained by a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation showed in the summer of 2019, an undercover agent ordered
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A Northern California Man was sentenced on Tuesday, September 19, after pleading guilty of sexual exploitation of a child. James Dean Miller, 54, of Yuba City, received 15 years and eight months in prison in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. Miller pleaded guilty to one count in April 2022
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A Riverside, Calif. man who entered a guilty plea this week could be sentenced to a 20-year jail term for his role in former President Donald Trump’s coup d’éta attempt on January 6, 2021. Andrew Alan Hernandez, 45, entered his plea to aiding and abetting in the obstruction
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Even in states where one party has an advantage, occasionally, there are races where the minority party causes trembles for the majority. In Democratic California, one such race could be in a swing suburban Assembly district of Sacramento. In the Rancho Cordova-Folsom-centered Assembly District 7, Republican Joshua Hoover is causing
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In a race that could determine a balance of power in Sacramento County, the area Democratic and Republican parties have placed a high priority on the District 5 race for the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. With Supervisor Don Notolli leaving after 28 years in office, and the difficulty in
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In the hope of locating a suspect wanted for a 1986 murder, the FBI Sacramento field office has announced a substantial reward to help apprehend the suspect. A reward of up to $20,000 is available for information leading to the arrest of Efren Calderas-Meza, a 68-year-old Mexican citizen who
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A Sacramento man who was convicted earlier this year of sex trafficking was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday, September 12. Robert Pierre Duncan, 26, of Sacramento, was convicted in March by a federal jury in Sacramento of conspiracy to sex trafficking a child, sex trafficking of a
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During their Tuesday, September 6 meeting, Trustees and administrators of the Elk Grove Unified School District heard over one hour and 20 minutes of public comment that was exclusively critical of their school management policies. While most of the comments were from parents from the EGUSD Inclusion Stays group, they