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
SF News Major NorCal Suburban Pot Ring Busted by Feds Obama's Justice Department may be loosening up about medical marijuana, but right on cue the DEA just busted a huge marijuana grow operation that was running out of dozens of half-million-dollar homes in
SF News Sacto Mayor Robbed In SF's Union Square Well, this stinks. Former NBA player and current Mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson was mugged robbed over the weekend while acting like a Boy Scout in San Francisco's Union Square. NBC Bay Area
SF News Sacramento Businesses Ban <i>Sacramento News & Review</i> Over Gay Cover (Allegedly) The July 2 issue of Sacramento News & Review, it seems, wasn't the most popular issue of SN&R. Why? Well, the cover story -- featuring a safe couple, Ben and Lonny
SF News Newsom Throws $100,000 Block Party While trolling over in Sacramento this past weekend at the Democratic convention, Mayor Gavin Newsom, according to Matier et Ross, threw a $100,000 block party. Would you expect anything less? Anyway, the
SF News Sacramento Tent City Coming Down With coverage on Oprah, followed by countless other media stories on the Third World-ish homeless camp, Sacramento's 'Tent Camp' will officially close over the next few weeks. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who's clearly
SF News California State Budget Passed It is done. (Well, almost done.) By 7 a.m., both houses of the Legislature passed the shiny budget plan. The 33 bills include "$15 billion in spending cuts, $11.4 billion in
Arts & Entertainment Stopping Prop 8 Starts With You (and Continues on February 17) So, you've got nothing to do on a Tuesday? Well, Equality California has just the thing. Head on over to Sacramento to participate in 2009 Marriage Lobby Day, an opportunity for concerned citizens
