Read more Sacramento stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2568/sacramento.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:06:55 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72898/radio-station-fined-16m-for-fatal-contest.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Sacramento radio station has been ordered to pay $16 million to the family of a woman who died during its "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest. The woman, who was trying to win the game console for her three children, died of water intoxication after taking part in...http://www.newser.com/story/72898/radio-station-fined-16m-for-fatal-contest.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 3:37:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69021/calif-pol-quits-after-boast-of-spanking-sex-with-lobbyist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome lobbyists will apparently do anything for work. A California assemblyman and family-values crusader has quit after boasting about spanking sex with a utility company lobbyist and "hot" sex with another. He went into graphic detail over a broadcast mike he didn't realize was live, reports the Los Angeles Times...http://www.newser.com/story/69021/calif-pol-quits-after-boast-of-spanking-sex-with-lobbyist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 2:10:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63437/california-begins-printing-ious.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThousands of Californians still waiting for their state tax returns will open their mail to find an IOU instead of a check. Unable to close a gargantuan budget deficit, the state began printing a $53 million batch of IOUs this afternoon, the Los Angeles Times reports. Some banks have agreed...http://www.newser.com/story/63437/california-begins-printing-ious.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62747/calif-may-need-to-issue-ious-next-week.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalifornia’s finances are so dire that the state controller says he’s going to have to start doling out IOUs to creditors soon, reports the Los Angeles Times . Likening the situation to the Great Depression, John Chiang says he’ll have to issue IOUs to social-service agencies, private contractors, vendors, and others...http://www.newser.com/story/62747/calif-may-need-to-issue-ious-next-week.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 24 Jun 2009 16:59:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62040/as-calif-righty-bastion-orange-county-cedes-to-rural-placer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPlacer County, Calif.—stretching from Sacramento east to Lake Tahoe—is this generation’s Orange County, and that bodes ill for conservatives, Tom Schaller writes on FiveThirtyEight.com. Placer’s demographics and voting record are similar to the Orange County of the 1960s, which birthed the modern conservative movement. But, Schaller writes,...http://www.newser.com/story/62040/as-calif-righty-bastion-orange-county-cedes-to-rural-placer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 16 Jun 2009 15:20:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58233/ballot-measures-a-final-test-for-schwarzenegger.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDeep into Arnold Schwarzenegger's second term, the novelty of holding political office has given way to the hard realities of governing, the New York Times reports. In the eyes of his constituents, too, the Governator’s celebrity sheen has faded, enough that Schwarzenegger is worried about the passage of several ballot...http://www.newser.com/story/58233/ballot-measures-a-final-test-for-schwarzenegger.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 06 May 2009 12:29:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58099/in-market-hit-early-signs-of-a-recovery.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn Sacramento, one of the first US cities to see the housing market crumble, there are glimmers of recovery, the New York Times reports. Sales have jumped 45% from last year, and investors and first-time buyers are on the prowl. “It’s fragile, and it could easily be fleeting,” said an...http://www.newser.com/story/58099/in-market-hit-early-signs-of-a-recovery.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 05 May 2009 8:53:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57348/flights-at-calif-fla-airports-most-likely-to-hit-birds.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAirplanes using airports in Sacramento, Calif., Kansas City, Mo., and Denver are the most likely to hit birds while landing or taking off. NPR used the Federal Aviation Administration’s recently released bird-strike data to calculate airports’ “strike rate”—the percentage of planes that collided with birds relative to the total...http://www.newser.com/story/57348/flights-at-calif-fla-airports-most-likely-to-hit-birds.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Apr 2009 15:03:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57125/plane-bird-collisions-up-faa.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCollisions between airplanes and birds have increased dramatically since 2000, with the number of instances at 13 major US airports doubling. New York’s JFK topped the list with the most avian accidents—30—since 2000, with California’s Sacramento International the runner-up at 28, the AP reports. Both are in areas—...http://www.newser.com/story/57125/plane-bird-collisions-up-faa.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 24 Apr 2009 12:01:23 CDT