SF News Finally, A Literal Reason Why Sacramento Stinks If you've visited Sacramento recently only to take a deep whiff and wonder, "Damn, they've got some skunk weed up here," you would be half right. See, hordes of horny skunks have come
SF News Sacramento Rape Hoax Wife Sentenced The Sacramento prison psychologist who, along with a sinister friend, faked her own home-invasion rape, all in a failed effort to get her husband to move them to a better neighborhood, was sentenced
SF News California Is Now Free To Raid $1.7 Billion In Redevelopment Funds [Update] The California Supreme Court ruled this morning that the state is free to eliminate redevelopment agencies across California and take $1.7 billion of their funds under Sacramento-approved legislation passed earlier this year.
SF News Woman Charged With Faking Rape For Better Zip Code In a storyline ripped from a rejected Desperate Housewives spec, Laurie Ann Martinez, a psychologist at Folsom Prison, was charged with faking her own rape in order to get her stubborn husband to
Arts & Entertainment Gov. Jerry Brown's Amazingly Passive-Aggressive State Senate Memo Well, now this is just delightful: Jerry Brown's passive aggressive note to the California State Senate back in September of this year, in which the Governor explains his support for SB 769 but
SF News PETA to Use 'Microwaved Baby' Story for Billboard Promoting Veganism Known for controversial and shocking methods of getting their word across, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) plans on erecting a billboard in Sacramento featuring the image of a person about
SF News 26 Teachers Arrested in Sacramento While Protesting Education Cuts Hot on the heels of news that San Francisco USD will be laying off 139 educators at the end of the school year, comes a report from Sacramento that over two dozen teachers
SF News Meanwhile, In Newsom's Office... Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom hosts a wild party in his office with students from St. Vincent de Paul School in San Francisco. "Giving them an overview of our state government," he says. Like
SF News Jerry Brown Won't Reach Budget Deal On Time Much to no one's surprise, Governor Jerry Brown admitted this morning that he might not reach a budget deal by Thursday, "his self-imposed 60-day deadline," even though floor votes in the Legislature are
SF News FOX News Team Attacked Outside Sacramento IHOP (VIDEO) 24-hour restaurants really do bring out the worst in people, don't they? Take, for example, a FOX40 news crew who were attacked outside a Sacramento iHOP on the 2900 block of Advantage Lane,
SF News Arrest in Lower Haight Flaming-Car Death A 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of a Sacramento woman whose body was found burning in a car on Webster and Rose Streets (between Page and Haight) in
SF News How Was Gavin Newsom's First Week In Sacramento? Yesterday, the Sunday Chronicle (or maybe just the normal Chronicle? who even gets the paper anymore?) posted an update on Gavin's first week in office. While the lede says he's got a lot
SF News Brown's "Painful" $12.5 Billion Budget Cut Proposal "What I propose will be painful," Governor Jerry Brown said to reporters at the Capitol after unveiling a budget proposal that, among other things, will include an 8 percent to 10 percent cut
SF News Scene From A World Series Trophy Meet & Greet San Francisco Giants fan Lauren Ruffo, displays her Giant's sleeve and her Giant's bear, named Aubrey Huff, after having her picture taken with the Giant's 2010 World Series trophy on display at the
SF News When Flash Mobs Go Wrong: Choral Mob in Roseville Almost Breaks Mall It's Christmastime, and now that your grandmother and maiden aunt are on Twitter, choral flash mobs are the new big thing! Hundreds of people gathered "spontaneously" at malls in Orlando, Dallas, and Kansas
SF News Governor-elect Jerry Brown Makes First Appointments Confronting a gargantuan budget deficit, Governor-elect Jerry Brown just made his first appointments before heading into office in January. "Brown today announced his first two appointments, retaining Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's finance director, Ana
SF News FBI Warns About Video Camera-Infused Barbie Doll, Parents Buy Them Anyway In a memo sent to local law enforcement agencies, the FBI's Sacramento Field office warns that a new Barbie doll with a video camera embedded in her chest could be used as a
SF News California Budget Finished, Finally California lawmakers approved "the tardiest budget in state history this morning" after an epic session at the Capitol this morning. "The $87.5 billion spending plan relies on rosy assumptions about revenues from
SF News Parking Brake Mistake Blamed for Last Month's JetBlue Emergency Landing Fire Remember how a JetBlue plane made an emergency landing in Sacramento last month, one that blew two tires and sparked a small fire? Well, the reason for the landing has been revealed. It
SF News 15 Injured After JetBlue Plane Catches Fire Landing A JetBlue airplane made a "hard landing" at Sacramento International Airpot this afternoon around 1 p.m. after "blowing two tires, sparking a small fire and causing minor injuries." According to reports, "A
SF News Driver Chatting On Cellphone Drives Into River, Dies On Saturday, according to The Chronicle, an Antioch woman "drove off a boat ramp and into the Sacramento River while she was talking on a cell phone with her daughter, asking for directions,
SF News Escaped Zebras Run Around Sacramento Suburb (Video) Here are videos showing one of two zebras going on an adorable (albeit horrifying for the animals) rampage throughout the streets of a Sacramento suburb on Saturday. The zebras, it seems, escaped while
SF News For Cinco de Mayo, Sacramento Smells Like a Piña Colada A tanker truck filled with 7,000 gallons of coconut oil crashed and flipped over last night around 2 a.m., spilling the stuff all over the roadway and stinking up half of
SF News "I Need Your Money," Says Newsom We get so excited when we find a message from Gavin Newsom waiting in our inbox -- especially when "I need your help" calls to us from the subject line. (Help with what?
SF News Newsom Evangelizes About Recycling, Composting in <em>Sacramento Bee</em> Mayor Gavin Newsom took his message about mandatory recycling programs to the Op-Ed page of the Sacramento Bee yesterday, aiming in particular at so-called "high temperature disposal technologies" which he calls "just glorified
