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KCRA Television reports that concealed carry permits are up dramatically in Sacramento, California. According to reporter Danielle Leigh, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office has approved more concealed carry permits this year than in the history of the department. While neither she nor the spokesman for the Sheriff's Office mention it, this is directly attributable to the agreement reached by the Second Amendment Foundation and the CalGuns Foundation with the Sheriff's Department where "self-defense" is now recognized as showing "good cause". The reporter asks the Sheriff's Department spokesman whether the rise in CCW permits means things are "out of control" and...

Homeless men and women – weathered by the elements and carrying bags and backpacks – are getting a chance to tell their side of the story in federal court about how the city of Sacramento treats them. In a highly unusual case that focuses on their nightly searches for places to sleep, the city's down and out are pitted against city police who are charged with enforcing a local ordinance prohibiting camping in undesignated areas for more than 24 hours at a time. The civil class action, brought on behalf of all homeless people in Sacramento who have lost tents,...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — There is now a shocking new strategy to fight copper crime. Street lights are now staying on 24-hours a day in one Sacramento neighborhood and the city is banking on live wires to keep criminals away. The city now figures keeping them turned on will save money, by warding off copper thieves; keeping the lights on mean live wires, and the unlucky thief who doesn’t know better could be electrocuted. It’s quite a warning, from a city that’s been hit hard by the copper crime.

Monday, April 18, 2011, from noon until 4pm, grassroot organizations from across the state will come together to "Reclaim America, United." Sponsors of this event are Citizens Reclaiming Constitutional Liberty PAC (CRCLPAC) and Tea Party United. This years event will not only focus on the United States' ever growing budget, but will show that the Tea Party Movement is United in order to claim Victory in 2012. Grassroot organizations from across Northern California are coming out to attend and share information with their fellow grassroots activists to be taken back and implemented in their own communities after the event is...

A state Assembly committee dominated by Democrats this morning killed two bills that sought to require public officials to report suspected illegal immigrants and prohibit employers from knowingly hiring the immigrants. Freshman Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, an activist with the Minuteman movement, proposed an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigrants because he said the federal government is doing an inadequate job protecting the borders.

An Arizona-like law to combat illegal immigration has a snowball's chance in Phoenix of passing the California Legislature, but freshman Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks (San Bernardino County) is giving it a shot. Donnelly, who has patrolled the California-Mexico border as part of the militant Minutemen citizen group, held a rally at the Capitol today for his bill, AB26. The bill would make a number of changes in state law, including requiring law enforcement to verify the immigration status of anyone who is arrested and suspected of being in the country illegally. It also would make it illegal to limit...

As the Anaheim City Council gets ready to vote in a few hours on issuing bonds to fund improvements to that city's Honda Center - the possible future home of the Sacramento Kings - there's still work being done on the home front. State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, is considering a request by city officials to carry a bill barring Anaheim from moving forward on the bond unless Sacramento is guaranteed the Kings will pay off a loan they owe City Hall.

On April 14th, we are co-sponsoring a rally with Howard Jarvis Tax Payers Association on the west steps of the Capitol.We will meet at 9:00, have an address by Jon Coupal and then we will go into the Capitol and lobby. [That otta be good!] At around 11:00, we will again meet on the west steps and have another speaker and we will be done by noon. More information will be coming soon in a separate e-mail. On April 16th, our "Patriot Freedom Ride" will be taking off from Renegade in Grass Valley by 8:30 am. We have much more...

Dorothea Puente may finally be gone, but she is hardly forgotten. The Sacramento serial killer, who died Sunday at 82 in the skilled nursing facility at the Central California Woemn's Facility in Chowchilla, is mentioned in at least 10 books still available on Amazon.com, including this gem from author Shane Bugbee: "Cooking with a Serial Killer, Recipes From Dorothea Puente."

(Barbara Simpson, 560KSFO Radio Host, mentioned the following, and I found the main info at stoptheillegals.com) Progam Summaries/Sunday March 20, 2011 Program NotesUrgent Message from CA Assemblyman Tim Donnelly * Action Alert UPDATE: THE NEW DATES ARE APRIL 4TH AND 5TH! See below. Patriots, Yesterday, as the Vice Chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, I sat and listened to over a hundred witnesses in favor of Assembly Bills 130 and 131 (Cedillo). Witnesses consisted of tax-taking unions, pro-illegal alien activist groups, dozens of unapologetic illegal students whose educations we subsidize, and the UC and CSU system representatives, as well...

A man in midtown Sacramento who once hung a swastika banner in the front window of his Newton Booth home to prevent the next-door neighbors from renting their house was taken into custody for violating a court order this morning. Joe Ongaro, an electrical contractor, was taken into custody after police served a search warrant and arrest warrant this morning about 7:30 a.m. at the man's home near 25th and U streets. "It is related to a court order barring him from harassing his neighbors," said Sacramento Police . . .

It looks like the gangbangers who made a small memorial in front of the IHOP on Advantage Way in Sacramento where was murdered have nad their memorial destroyed by a motorcycle vigilante.  This past Sunday FOX 40 reporter John Lobertini and camerawoman Rebecca Little were assaulted by friends and relatives of a gangbanger shot after an altercation took place between him and another gangbanger inside IHOP. The murdered banger was 27-year-old Chester Jackson, and the reporters were there to interview some people who may have been able to shed some more light an incident that is becoming all too...

News Crew Attacked At Natomas Murder Scene SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Grieving family and friends attacked a reporter and photojournalist from a Sacramento news station Sunday as they covered the aftermath of a deadly shooting in north Natomas. KTXL reporter John Lobertini and photojournalist Rebecca Little were attacked at an IHOP restaurant on the 2900 block of Advantage Way by a number of bystanders who had gathered at the site of the murder. Video captured by CBS13 news crew a short distance away shows several people shouting profanities at the news crew at about 4:00 p.m. as a growing crowd began...

"As his tiny daughter's skin turned blotchy and her body went limp during a lengthy wait at Methodist Hospital's emergency room, Ryan Jeffers panicked." "The family's ordeal began on a Sunday morning in early December, when the normally rambunctious Malyia developed a fever and became lethargic, Ryan Jeffers recalled."

The airline pilot who was reprimanded by the TSA for posting videos showing security flaws at a major airport is speaking out exclusively for the first time, saying that it was the "fallacy of the system" that inspired him to take this action. *snip* He first posted the videos to YouTube on November 28. Three days later, he says, four federal air marshals and two local sheriff's deputies showed up at his home to question him about the footage. The pilot filmed the conversation, during which the federal marshals confiscated his federally-issued firearm. (News video runs when you click the...

Incident Occurs Along Stockton Boulevard, Police Say SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. -- A 30-year-old mother loading her young son into a car seat was killed and five other people were hurt in a shooting Tuesday afternoon in south Sacramento, authorities said. The attack occurred at a strip mall at 6955 Stockton Blvd., according to Sacramento police. Crime scene tape was seen at the mall. The shooting erupted at Fly Cuts & Styles, a barber shop in the mall. Police said two people entered the barber shop looking to target two people who were there getting haircuts. The assailants opened fire, customers...

The deaths in Auburn’s Wise Canal started in January 2009. Last month, 50-year-old homeless man Richard Hill became the sixth man to turn up dead in the canal in less than two years. Now an Auburn woman has come forward with information that she said points to her son barely surviving becoming a seventh victim. Until this month, she said that neither she nor her son had shared the information with authorities. Betty Starr said her son told her he was pushed into the Wise Canal in November 2008, while walking in the darkness at water’s edge on a path...

SACRAMENTO -- Gov.-elect Jerry Brown and some of the state's leading politicians laid out a panorama of grim realities as California seeks a way out of its unrelenting economic crisis, emphasizing that gimmicks can no longer be used. Brown, 25 days away from assuming the governorship, took the extraordinary step of calling hundreds of lawmakers and local officials together to confront what will likely be the defining issue of his term. One-time solutions such as federal stimulus funds and temporary tax hikes are not options to fill in gaps left by the state's plummeting revenues, Brown said during the two-hour...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A Sacramento restaurant agreed to stop serving live shrimp after an animal-rights group said the practice was cruel to the shellfish. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the restaurant, Nishiki Sushi, suggested squeezing lemon juice on the shrimps' exposed flesh so they would writhe as they were eaten. The dish is commonly referred to as "dancing shrimp" and is considered a delicacy in Japan. PETA contacted the restaurant after receiving dozens of complaints about the practice.

Case Continues Against Yolo County to Secure Right to Self-Defense BELLEVUE, Wash. and SAN CARLOS, Calif., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the Calguns Foundation have dismissed their case against Sacramento County, California and its Sheriff, John McGinness, after the Sheriff modified his handgun carry permitting policy. Law-abiding Sacramento County residents may now successfully apply for permits to carry handguns by asserting self-defense as a basis for carry permit issuance. A one-year residency requirement has been eliminated, as has policy language that tied self-defense to arbitrary geographic factors. While Sacramento County has changed its policies, other...