Pleading no contest for staging an elaborate rape scene, to convince her husband to move out of Sacramento’s Northgate Neighborhood. Laurie Ann Martinez was sentenced to five years probation and 180 days in the sheriff’s work furlough program. Full Story:http://sacratomatovillepost.com/2011/12/28/rape-was-her-only-way-out-of-northgate/ In addition to losing her job, her husband has filed for divorce, she has lost her license and… [Read more…]
One couldn’t miss the sarcasm in NBA commissioner David Stern’s voice last spring. He wasn’t convinced,if Sacramento could come up with a new arena package. With Anaheim willing and able to host the a Kings at the Honda Center or better still, a billionare (Henry Samueli) who could write a check for the team. Mr Stern’s would… [Read more…]
Eight hours and an underused camera. Eight hours before my flight to Sacramento. There were a few places I wanted to visit in Atlanta. The Olympic Village, the Martin Luther King Jr site and the Jimmy Carter Museum. It was unseasonably cool in Atlanta,rements of tropical storm Lee. I lost interest in the Village because of traffic, so… [Read more…]
Trust(noun) 1.reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence. 2.confident expectation of something; hope. 3.confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust. 4. a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust. 5.the condition… [Read more…]
It can be chilly in the foothills , especially at 1 am. An Nevada City police officer saw a car on Highway 49 off Coyote Street with two male occupants in the car on the side of the road. It seems the car ran out of Gas and they were waiting a woman to bring… [Read more…]
Murder ,weapons and assault charges were filed against six men,Lonnie Orlando Mitchell Jr his brother Louis James Mitchell, Charles Edward Barksdale III, James Leo Carney III, Dominique Marcell Lott, and Larry Dean Jones . A shootout at Fly Cuts & Styles on Stockton Boulevard in South Sacramento. Two people were killed including a mother who was… [Read more…]
behaving badly in Downtown Sacramento? Never!!! Two young white men full (possibly)of the juice that makes you stupid, was just that on K Street. They were mooning guest at the upscale “Ella’s Restaurant on K street, picking fights with various people up and down K Street. When a gun toting free wheeling member of a jazz… [Read more…]
Sacramento leads state in often-disputed payday loan outlets Got debt? Sacramento’s payday loan borrowers sure do. The city has almost three times more outlets for payday loans per person than any other city in the state, according to the California Reinvestment Coalition. The outlets offer small, short-term loans intended to cover a borrower’s expenses until… [Read more…]
The man who hosted the “under 21″ dance party at which a 14-year-old girl was fatally shot last month is a sex offenderr with a history of pimping, pandering and prostitution of minors, according to authorities. The conditions of 43-year-old Kevin Love Kennedy’s parole from state prison after a 2004 conviction for pimping prohibited him from… [Read more…]
We have long said Sacramentians have a poor view of their city. Here is a view from the East Coast. 36 Hours in Sacramento By Beth Greenfield -New York Times -November 1,2009 DESPITE California’s fiscal crisis, Sacramento has no deficit of quirky cultural offerings. Situated at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers,… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
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