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Field Poll: 84 percent of Californians disapprove of Congress' work

By Michael Doyle - Updated: 8:16 am

Californians remain poisonously skeptical about Congress, and many blame both parties for the latest budget-cutting failure on Capitol Hill, a statewide poll shows.

Jerry Brown has plan to hike sales, income taxes

By Kevin Yamamura - Updated: 6:25 am

Desperate to plug budget holes for the next five years, Gov. Jerry Brown will ask voters to raise $7 billion annually by taxing the rich and hiking the sales tax by half a cent.

Assembly loses court bid to withhold member budget documents

Sacramento area weather: Winds to gradually ease

By Mark Glover - Updated: 8:31 am

Winds that have been whipping leaves around the Central Valley like confetti will gradually diminish over the next couple of days.

Winds pummel California and the West

Priest jailed on suspicion of molesting 14-year-old Sacramento girl

By Loretta Kalb - Published: 12:00 am

A young Catholic priest lauded in Woodland for his involvement with the community will be arraigned in Sacramento Superior Court today on multiple counts of molesting a 14-year-old girl in Sacramento.

Parking spots coming up shorter than expected in Sacramento arena funding calculus

By Ryan Lillis, Dale Kasler and Tony Bizjak - Updated: 8:40 am

More than anything else, Sacramento officials have been banking on a plan to raise millions of dollars for a new downtown sports arena by leasing city-owned parking spaces to a private operator.

Officials: Weapon that killed El Dorado Hills boy fired metallic pellets

By Carlos Alcalá - Published: 6:26 am

El Dorado County sheriff's officials released additional details Thursday regarding the weapon that killed a 10-year-old boy in El Dorado Hills this week.

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Penn State University Beaver campus students, left, senior Lindsey Scialdone, 21, of Ellwood City, sophomore Nicole Bowersox, 19, of State College, sophomore Myranda Raymond, 19, of Beechview and freshmen Alicia Prestia, 18, of Las Vegas, Nevada participate in a candlelight vigil in support of victims of sexual abuse on the PSU Beaver campus in Monaca, Pa., with about 50 classmates organized by the campus student government association.
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Gov. Jerry Brown looks over his notes before he speaks about his pension reform plan as it gets a second look from a two-house legislative committee on public pensions. View a video.
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Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. - BRITTEN BAILEY, (left) and GARY COOK release a sky lantern in honor of those affected with HIV/AIDS at Tom Lee Park as part of a World AIDS Day public event held by Le Bonheur's Community HIV Network.
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Dasha, a leopard is photographed at the Wildlife WayStaion in the Angeles National Forest on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Martine called a press conference on Thursday to announce that it faces the "final chapter" of the wild and exotic animal sanctuary that has long been a Los Angeles fixture and is home to around 400 animals, birds and reptiles and is seeking donations.
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FC Vaslui's supporters light flares during a Group D, Europa League match, against Laziu in Piatra Neamt, Romania, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.

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Penn State University Beaver campus students, left, senior Lindsey Scialdone, 21, of Ellwood City, sophomore Nicole Bowersox, 19, of State College, sophomore Myranda Raymond, 19, of Beechview and freshmen Alicia Prestia, 18, of Las Vegas, Nevada participate in a candlelight vigil in support of victims of sexual abuse on the PSU Beaver campus in Monaca, Pa., with about 50 classmates organized by the campus student government association.